Mount Royal, Quebec
Mont -Royal (English Mount Royal ) is a municipality 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 7.66 km ² and has 19,503 inhabitants ( 2011).
Geography
Mont- Royal is located in the central part of the Ile de Montréal, on the north west side of the 233 meter high mountain, Mont Royal Montreal home. The community is almost completely surrounded by the territory of the city of Montreal, from the districts of Villeray -Saint -Michel- Parc- Extension, Côte- des-Neiges -Notre- Dame-de- Grâce, Outremont and Saint- Laurent. In the south, there is a short border with Côte -Saint -Luc. Main axes of the city are a railway line in east-west direction and two diagonally extending to main roads that intersect at an oval park at the station. The downtown Montreal is around eight kilometers away.
History
The founding Mont- Royal is based on plans by Frederick Todd, who at the foot of Mont Royal built a " model city " on behalf of the Canadian Northern Railway. This should follow the principles of urban planner Ebenezer Howard and the City Beautiful movement. The railway company bought agricultural land and parceled it. To boost the settlement, they built a 5.3 km -long railway tunnel under the mountain through the city center of Montreal. The founding of the town of Mont -Royal took place on December 21, 1912, the tunnel was opened on 21 October 1918.
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 Mont- Royal, and 81.8 % 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 19,503 inhabitants Mont -Royal, which corresponds to a population density of 2546.1 inh. / Km ². 44.0 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 21.6 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 1.6%, to other languages and multiple responses accounted for 32.8 %. Among the most important non-official main languages were Arabic ( 6.9%), Greek ( 3.0% ), Italian ( 3.0%) and Vietnamese ( 2.9%). Only 11.7% spoke French, English only 9.8%. In 2001, 53.2 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 12.0% Jewish, 10.9 % Orthodox, 6.0 % Protestant, 5.5% Muslim, and 7.6% non-denominational.
Traffic
The major thoroughfares Mont- Royal are two highways, the Autoroute 15 and Autoroute 40 The city has two railway stations at the AMT suburban line between the Montreal Central Station and Deux- Montagnes. The station Mont -Royal is the actual center of the city, while the Canora station is located at the west portal of the Mont -Royal tunnel. Several bus lines of the Société de transport de Montréal establish connections with neighboring communities and the center of Montreal.