Pincourt, Quebec
Pincourt is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located in the Montérégie administrative region, about 35 kilometers west of the center of Montreal. Pincourt is part of the regional county municipality ( municipalité régional du comté ) Vaudreuil - Soulanges, has an area of 7.54 km ² and has 14,305 inhabitants ( 2011).
Geography
The territory of Pincourt located in the western part of the Ile Perrot. This island in the Hochelaga Archipelago is circled by two arms of the mouth of the Ottawa River. Neighboring communities on the island are terrace - Vaudreuil in the north, L' Ile- Perrot in the Northeast and Notre- Dame-de- l'Île - Perrot in the east. Beyond the western Mündungsarms of the Ottawa River, the village of Vaudreuil Dorion.
History
Jean Talon, the first Intendant of New France, the island transferred in 1672 as Seigneurie to the officer François -Marie Perrot, the then Governor of Montreal. Numerous Voyageurs and sailors who were active in the fur trade, rested on her travels on the western shore of the island, where there was a pine forest. The picnic area at the " short Pines" (Fr. pins courts ) was known far and wide, so gradually the place name Pincourt took shape. 1856, the railroad line of the Grand Trunk Railway was opened between Montreal and Toronto, which triggered a surge in development. A year earlier, the foundation of the parish of Sainte -Jeanne -de- Chantal - l'Isle - Perrot, which covered the entire island. From this was 1946, the total community Ile- Perrot, however, had only a few years inventory. Pincourt seceded in 1950 as a new independent municipality from 1959 and received the city status. Since 2000, the city is a member of the Association of Municipalities Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.
Population
According to the 2011 census counted 14,305 inhabitants Pincourt, which corresponds to a population density of 1897 inhab. / Km ². 49.0 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 34.9 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 2.0%, to other languages and multiple responses accounted for 14.1%. Only 18.4% spoke French. In 2001, 75.6 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 15.8% Protestant, and 6.9% non-denominational.
Traffic
The northern boundary runs along the Autoroute 20, the highway between Montreal and Toronto. Next to the station there is a fully equipped junction, while the eastern portion which is classified as a main road, a walk- intersection exists with traffic lights. About the Pont Taschereau 20 reaches the Autoroute the neighboring municipality of Vaudreuil - Dorion.
Parallel to the motorway run two double track railway lines of the Canadian National Railway and the Canadian Pacific Railway, each with a separate bridge over the Ottawa River. Pincourt shares with Terrace Vaudreuil a station on the suburban railway line from Agence métropolitaine de transport, which leads from the Montreal station Lucien- Vaudreuil - Dorion and L'Allier by Hudson. The detailed indexing on the island to take several bus lines of the company CIT La Presqu'Île.