L'ÃŽle-Dorval, Quebec

L'Île -Dorval is a municipality in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is synonymous with the Île Dorval, which lies about half a mile off the southern coast of the Ile de Montréal in the Lac Saint- Louis.

The community is a constitutional oddity. It has the status of a city, but counted in the 2011 census only just five permanent residents. Thus it is by area and population, the smallest municipality in Canada. 2001, the population declined in the meantime even to zero. But according to the election law of the province of Quebec next residents also property owners are eligible to vote in municipal affairs, fifty voters were registered in 2004.

On 1 January 2002 27 municipalities were merged with Montreal, including L'Île -Dorval. 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. Registered in L'Île -Dorval voters were 37 out of 12 votes for separation. The community was founded on 1 January 2006 then new.

The island on which there are several dozen cottages, is connected by a ferry with the City of Dorval.