Pointe-Calumet, Quebec
Pointe- Calumet is a municipality in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located in the administrative region of Laurentides, about 30 kilometers west of Montreal. Pointe- Calumet is part of the regional county municipality ( municipalité régional du comté ) Deux- Montagnes, has an area of 4.63 km ² and has 6,396 inhabitants ( 2011).
Geography
Pointe- Calumet is located on the north shore of Lac des Deux Montagnes, which belongs to the mouth area of the Ottawa River. About 300 meters away from the lake are two small lakes, the Lac de la Sablière and the Lac des Sables. Neighboring municipalities are Oka in the West, Saint -Joseph -du -Lac in the north, Sainte -Marthe -sur -le- Lac in the Northeast and the Montreal borough of L' Île- Bizard -Sainte -Geneviève in the southeast ( on the opposite side of the Lac des Deux Montagnes ).
History
The place is named after a Native American meeting place at which Iroquois tribes met to smoke the peace pipe ( calumet French ). Reported is a meeting between Abenaki and Iroquois in 1720, which concluded an agreement there. On a map of the Seigneurie Lac-des -Deux- Montagnes from 1798 a place called Pointe Calumet stated. Since 1916, numerous cottages that were inhabited throughout the year with the time incurred due to the proximity to an attractive sandy beach. The founding of the church in Pointe- Calumet was made in 1953 by a cession of territory of the neighboring commune of Saint -Joseph -du -Lac. Pointe- Calumet is a member of the company founded in 2000 Zweckverbandes Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.
Population
According to the 2011 census counted 6,396 residents Pointe- Calumet, which corresponds to a population density of 1381.4 inh. / Km ². 93.7 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 3.3 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 0.8 %, to other languages and multiple responses accounted for 2.2%. Only 60.1% spoke French. In 2001, 92.0 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 2.5% Protestant, and 3.8% non-denominational.
Traffic
The place is accessible by the main road 344. In addition, the Autoroute 640 runs north of the town in the direction of Repentigny. A bus line connects Pointe- Calumet Deux- Montagnes, where is the connection station on the AMT commuter trains to Montreal.