Mirabel, Quebec
Mirabel is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located in the administrative region of Laurentides, about 50 kilometers northwest of Montreal. Mirabel is a so-called territorial equivalent of a regional municipality has an area of 485.59 km ² and has 41,957 inhabitants ( 2011). The city is best known as the location of the airport Aéroport international Montréal- Mirabel.
Geography
Mirabel has no center, but is the merger of several of spaced apart small towns and villages. The terrain is mostly flat, and dominated by agricultural use and the airport. Several rivers drain towards the plane towards southeast to the Rivière des Mille Îles. The northern city boundary with a large part of the Rivière du Nord along, in a southwest oriented valley at the foot of the Laurentian mountains.
Seat of administration is the southeast of the airport located Sainte- Monique. To the south is the largest village of Saint -Augustin, on the southwestern edge of the airport Sainte- Scholastique ( the historical center of the region ). Grown together with the neighboring city of Blainville are Domaine -Vert and Saint- Janvier, grown together with Saint- Jérôme, Saint- Antoine. At the southeast city limits, Petit -Saint -Charles, in the southwestern part are the towns of Saint -Benoit and Saint- Hermas. In the valley of the Rivière du Nord, Saint- Canut and Mirabel- en-Haut are.
Neighboring communities are Saint- Colomban and Saint- Jérôme in the north, Sainte -Sophie and Sainte -Anne -des- Plaines, northwest, Blainville in the East, Sainte -Thérèse and Boisbriand in the southwest, Saint- Eustache and Saint -Joseph -du -Lac in south, Oka and Saint- Placide in the southwest, Saint -André- d'Argenteuil and Lachute.
History
1855 saw the establishment of the communes of Saint -Augustin, Saint- Benoît, Saint- Hermas, Saint- Janvier -de- Blainville and Sainte- Scholastique. This was followed in 1857 Saint- Camut 1872 Sainte -Monique. Finally, the municipality of Saint - Janvier -de- la -Croix was founded in 1959. In 1969, federal and provincial government agreed to build a new airport for Montreal. Given the expected increase in population, the eight municipalities were merged into one city. They first bore the name of Sainte- Scholastique, but renamed itself in 1973 following a referendum in Mirabel to. This name had been used from 1880 to 1914 as the name of a post office. The airport opened in 1975 never developed, contrary to the predictions become a major transport hub and is now considered a prime example of failed infrastructure planning and waste of taxpayer money.
Population
According to the 2011 census counted 41,957 inhabitants Mirabel, which corresponds to a population density of 86.4 inh. / Km ². 95.6 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 1.9 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 0.6 %, to other languages and multiple responses accounted for 1.9%. Only 61.9 % spoke French. In 2001, 93.1 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 1.6% Protestant, and 4.1% non-denominational.
Maison Girouard in Saint- Benoît
Airport Terminal
Transport and the economy
In the eastern part of the metropolitan area Autoroute 15, the highway between Montreal and Sainte -Agathe -des- Monts runs. From this the Autoroute 50 branches, which leads west to Gatineau. Main roads of national importance are the Route 117 (Montreal- Mont- Laurier ), route 148 ( Laval Gatineau ) and Route 158 ( Lachute - Berthierville ). The place Saint Augustin is located on the railway Montreal Gatineau, which is currently reserved but freight transportation company Chemins de fer Québec - Gatineau. Several bus lines of the company CIT Laurentides connect the city with the surrounding communities.
The Aéroport international Montréal- Mirabel is today mainly used for freight traffic of importance, since the scheduled air traffic was stopped in 2004. The airport serves as a production location of the aircraft manufacturer Bombardier Aerospace and the helicopter manufacturer Bell Helicopter, as well as a facility for test flights by Pratt & Whitney Canada.