Saint-Jérôme, Quebec

Saint Jerome is a city in the southwest of the Canadian province of Quebec. It is located in the administrative region of Laurentides, about 60 km north-west of Montreal. The administrative headquarters of the regional county municipality ( municipalité régional du comté ) La Rivière -du-Nord and the Laurentides region has an area of ​​90.52 km ² and has 68 456 inhabitants ( 2011). The present city was founded in 2002 by the merger of several municipalities. Saint- Jérôme is also called Reine du Nord ( "Queen of the North" ).

Geography

Saint- Jérôme is located on both sides of the Rivière du Nord, at the transition between the Saint Lawrence Lowlands and the Laurentian Mountains. The southern third of the city area is flat to slightly wavy, the remaining part is characterized by wooded hills. There are several small lakes between these hills. Neighboring municipalities are Prévost in the north, Sainte -Sophie in the east, in the south Mirabel, Saint- Colomban in the southwest, Mille -Isles in the west and Sainte- Anne-des -Lacs in the northwest.

History

From Jacques- Pierre de Taffanel de La Jonquière, then governor of New France, Eustache Lambert Dumont was awarded in 1752 a basic rule on the Rivière du Nord. This later came by marriage into the possession of Lefebvre de Bellefeuille family in more southern Saint- Eustache, so it was named Seigneurie de Bellefeuille. From the 1760s until the early 1840s, the family leased Dumont and Bellefeuille land to settlers, which began agricultural use of the area. The resulting town was the beginning of the 19th century, the name Dumontville.

The parish of Saint- Jérôme -de- la -Rivière -du- Nord was built in 1834 canonically, a first chapel was built the following year. Patron saint is Saint Jerome. The community was founded in 1856 received the abbreviated name of Saint- Jérôme and received city status in 1881. Decisive role in the growth of the city and the colonization of previously sparsely populated region had the pastor Antoine Labelle. He convinced the Canadian Pacific Railway from the fact that the construction of a railway line for the economic recovery was essential. The opening of the railway from Montreal to Saint- Jérôme was made in 1876.

The city is since 1951 the seat of the Diocese of Saint- Jérôme. The city in its present borders formed in 2002 through the merger of several communities that had grown together in the previous decades, with the urban core. Saint- Jérôme at that time was 24,583 inhabitants; were added Bellefeuille ( 14,066 inhabitants), Saint- Antoine ( 11,488 ) and Lafontaine ( 9477 ).

Population

According to the 2011 census counted 68 456 Saint- Jérôme inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 756.3 inh. / Km ². 95.2 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 1.5%. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 0.5 %, to other languages ​​and multiple responses accounted for 2.8%. Only 65.8 % spoke French. In 2001, 91.9 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 1.7% Protestant, and 5.2% non-denominational.

Traffic

Saint- Jérôme is accessed by the Autoroute 15, the highway between Montreal and Sainte -Agathe -des- Monts. To the south of the city center intersect two regional headquarters through local roads, the route 117 from Montreal to Mont- Laurier and Route 158 from Lachute after Berthierville. The station of Saint- Jérôme is the terminus of an AMT suburban line to Montreal and several bus lines of the companies CIT Laurentides and Lanaudière CRT. In addition, long distance buses run to the more northerly cities.

Education

Since 2010 there is in Saint- Jérôme, a branch of the Université du Québec en Outaouais, which belongs to the association of state Université du Québec. At secondary school level, the city has a Cégep.

Personalities

  • Brent Aubin ( born 1986 ), ice hockey player
  • Julie Baumann (born 1964 ), athlete
  • François Brassard (1908-1976), an ethnomusicologist
  • Léo Cadieux (1908-2005), politician
  • Julien Cousineau ( born 1981 ), skier
  • Luc Cyr ( b. 1953 ), Archbishop
  • Yann Danis ( born 1981 ), ice hockey player
  • Pierre Daviault (1899-1964), translator and author
  • Jonathan Huberdeau (* 1993), ice hockey player
  • Alain Robidoux ( born 1960 ), snooker player
Postal codes in Canada Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts Statistics Canada
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