Montréal-Nord

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Arrondissement de Montréal-Nord
Borough of Montreal
Montréal-Nord Borough Hall
Montréal-Nord location on the Island of Montreal.
Coordinates: 45°36′N 73°37′W / 45.600°N 73.617°W / 45.600; -73.617
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
City	Montreal
Region	Montréal
Incorporated	1915 (from Sault-au-Récollet)
Merge into Montreal	January 1, 2002
Electoral Districts Federal	Bourassa Honoré-Mercier
Provincial	Bourassa-Sauvé Maurice-Richard
Government [1][2][3]
• Type	Borough
• Mayor	Christine Black (EM)
• Federal MP(s)	Emmanuel Dubourg (LPC) Pablo Rodríguez (LPC)
• Quebec MNA	Paule Robitaille (LIB) Marie Montpetit (LIB)
Area
• Land	11.1 km2 (4.3 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[4]
• Total	84,234
• Density	7,623.0/km2 (19,743/sq mi)
• Dwellings	35,015
Time zone	UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	H1G, H1H
Area code(s)	(514) and (438)
Access Routes[5] A-25	Route 125
Website	www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/mtlnord

Montreal North (French: Montréal-Nord) is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city of Montréal-Nord on Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec. It was amalgamated into the City of Montreal on January 1, 2002.

Around the start of the 21st century, Montréal-Nord developed a reputation of being one of Montreal's most dangerous boroughs, along with Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. The area contains a sizable community living below the poverty line, though it also has middle-class and upper-middle-class residences. It's also home to one of Canada's largest Haitian communities.

Geography[]

Pierre Granche's sculpture in park in Montréal-Nord.

The borough is an oblong municipal division situated along the Rivière des Prairies, in the northeastern part of the island.

It is bordered to the west by Ahuntsic-Cartierville, to the southwest by Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, to the south by Saint Leonard, at the southeast corner by Anjou, and to the east by Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles. The borough counts 29 parks and leisure structures.

Major thoroughfares in Montréal-Nord include Saint-Michel Blvd., Pie IX Blvd. (Autoroute 25), Lacordaire Blvd., Langelier Blvd., Léger Blvd., and Henri-Bourassa Blvd. The Pie IX Bridge connects Montréal-Nord to the Laval district of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul.

It has an area of 11.07 km² and a population of 83,911.

Politics[]

Federal and provincial elections[]

The borough is located almost entirely in the federal riding of Bourassa, except for a tiny southeastern corner in Honoré-Mercier.

The provincial electoral district of Bourassa-Sauvé is coterminous with the borough except for a northwestern section in the electoral district of Maurice-Richard.

Demographics^[4][]

Government[]

Borough council[]

According to the 2016 Census, visible minorities made up 48.7% of the population.

Riot[]

For yet undisclosed reasons on August 9, 2008 officers of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal shot and killed Honduran immigrant Fredy Alberto Villanueva.^[6] This served to set off the tensions that had already been simmering in this multi-ethnic borough, and riots erupted the next evening, after an otherwise peaceful protest march in the afternoon. Rioters looted neighborhood stores, several cars and garbage cans were set on fire, one paramedic and two police officers were wounded and one female police officer shot.^[7] Firetrucks and firefighters arriving to put out the fires were then targeted by the rioters.^[6]

Education[]

Primary and secondary schools[]

The Commission scolaire de la Pointe-de-l'Île (CSPÎ) operates French-language public schools. Public high schools that are part of this school board in this borough are École secondaire Calixa-Lavallée and École Secondaire Henri-Bourassa.^[8] There is also the Le Prélude program.^[9] There are 14 Francophone primary schools in Montréal-Nord.^[10]

The English Montreal School Board operates Anglophone public schools:

• Galileo Adult Education Centre (Centre d'éducation des adultes Galileo)^[11]
• Lester B Pearson High School
• Gerald McShane School^[12][13]

Prior to 1998 it was in the Montreal Catholic School Commission (CECM) and the Protestant School Board of Greater Montreal, as at that time public schools were by religious denomination instead of on linguistic lines. In 1998 some schools in the eastern portion of CECM were transferred to the former area of Commission scolaire Jérôme-Le Royer, which at that time became the territory of the CSPÎ.^[14]

Public libraries[]

The borough has four libraries of the Montreal Public Libraries Network: Belleville, Bibliothèque de la Maison culturelle et communautaire, Charleroi, and Henri-Bourassa.^[15]

See also[]

• Boroughs of Montreal
• Districts of Montreal
• Municipal reorganization in Quebec

References[]

External links[]

• Borough website (in French)

Coordinates: 45°36′N 73°37′W / 45.600°N 73.617°W / 45.600; -73.617 (Nontreal-Nord)