Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Quebec
Terrasse- Vaudreuil is a municipality 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. Terrasse- Vaudreuil is part of the regional county municipality ( municipalité régional du comté ) Vaudreuil - Soulanges has an area of 1.04 km ² and has 1,971 inhabitants ( 2011).
Geography
The municipality of Vaudreuil - terrace is located on the northwestern tip of Ile Perrot. This island in the Hochelaga Archipelago is circled by two arms of the mouth of the Ottawa River. The municipal area also includes several small offshore islands in Lac des Deux Montagnes. Neighboring communities on the island of L'Île- Perrot are in the east and in the south Pincourt. 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. 1855 saw the establishment of the parish of Sainte -Jeanne -de- Chantal - l'Isle - Perrot, which covered the entire island. However, the north-western tip remained undeveloped for nearly a century. 1945 were opened for the construction of houses 80 plots, three years later, there were already 250 plots. In 1952 the foundation of the church terrace - Vaudreuil. The name is both a reference to the terraced terrain, on the other hand to the location opposite the city Vaudreuil Dorion. Since 2000, the community is a member of the Association of Municipalities Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.
Population
According to the 2011 census counted Terrace Vaudreuil 1971 inhabitants, which corresponds to a population density of 1895 inhab. / Km ². 67.2 % of the population reported French as the main language, the proportion of English was 22.4 %. As a bilingual ( French and English) is designated 2.0%, to other languages and multiple responses accounted for 8.4%. Only 23.7% spoke French. In 2001, 79.4 % of the population were Roman Catholic, 10.1% Protestant, and 7.4% non-denominational.
Traffic
The community along the southern border is the Autoroute 20, the highway between Montreal and Toronto. About the Pont Taschereau it reaches 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. Terrasse- Vaudreuil Pincourt shares with 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.