Côte Saint-Luc

Côte -Saint -Luc is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located on the Île de Montréal and forms an enclave within Montreal. The city has an area of ​​6.95 km ² and has 32 ​​321 inhabitants ( 2011).

Geography

Côte- Saint- Luc is situated in the central part of the Ile de Montréal. The community is mostly surrounded by the territory of the city of Montreal, from the municipalities of Côte -des- Neiges -Notre- Dame-de- Grâce in the east, in the south of Lachine and Saint- Laurent in the West. It borders to other municipalities: to the north of Mont -Royal, northeast of Hampstead and to the southeast by Montréal- Ouest. The city center of Montreal is approximately eight kilometers away.

History

The name of the village derives on the one hand by its location on a hill (French côte ) from, on the other hand by Luc de La Corne Saint- Luc, a French officer. At the beginning of the 18th century, the forested hills were cleared and then used two centuries for agriculture. Before 1900 a settlement was founded, the founding of the church took place in 1903., Like other communities in the west of the island had Côte -Saint -Luc from the beginning a higher than average number of English residents. 1958 Côte -Saint -Luc was a town. The construction of many skyscrapers in the 1960s had a rapid population growth result. It could be mainly Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe down, so that today, more than two-thirds of the population is Jewish.

On 1 January 2002 27 municipalities were merged on the island of Montreal. Especially in communities with a high proportion of English speakers was stirring resistance, since this measure was ordered by the provincial government of the separatist Parti Québécois. As of 2003, the Parti libéral du Québec, the government and promised to make the municipal mergers reversed. On 20 July 2004 referendums were held in 22 former municipalities. In Côte -Saint -Luc to 87.0 % of eligible participants were in favor of the separation. The community was re-established on 1 January 2006, but was forced to cede to the Association of Municipalities numerous competencies.

Population

According to the 2011 census counted Côte -Saint -Luc 32 321 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 4650.5 inh. / Km ². 42.0 % of the population reported English as the main language, the proportion of French was 17.5 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 1.3%, to other languages ​​and multiple responses accounted for 39.2 %. Among the most important non-official main languages ​​Russian ( 7.5%), Hebrew (3.1%), Yiddish (3.1%), Romanian (3.0% ), Spanish (2.3% ), Italian (2, 2%) and Persian ( 2.1%). Only 28.1% spoke English, only French 6.9%. In 2001, 69.1 % of the population were Jewish, 12.2% Roman Catholic, 4.8% Muslim, 4.5 % Protestant, 2.9 % Orthodox and 5.2% non-denominational.

Traffic

The city is accessible by several bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal. Along the western city boundary extends a marshalling yard of the Canadian Pacific Railway.