Vaudreuil-Dorion

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Vaudreuil-Dorion
City
Avenue Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Dorion
Location within Vaudreuil-Soulanges RCM.
Vaudreuil-Dorion Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 45°24′N 74°02′W / 45.400°N 74.033°W / 45.400; -74.033Coordinates: 45°24′N 74°02′W / 45.400°N 74.033°W / 45.400; -74.033[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montérégie
RCM	Vaudreuil-Soulanges
Constituted	16 March 1994
Government [2][3]
• Mayor	Guy Pilon
• Federal riding	Vaudreuil—Soulanges
• Prov. riding	Vaudreuil
Area [2]
• Total	92.57 km2 (35.74 sq mi)
• Land	73.06 km2 (28.21 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[4]
• Total	38,117
• Density	524.1/km2 (1,357/sq mi)
• Pop 2011-2016	14.4%
• Dwellings	14,853
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J7T to J7V
Area code(s)
Highways A-20 A-30 A-40 (TCH)	Route 338 Route 340 Route 342
Website	www.ville. vaudreuil-dorion.qc.ca

Vaudreuil-Dorion (French pronunciation: ​[vodʁœj dɔʁjɔ̃]) is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality. Ranked in 2017 as the 15th/100 best cities to raise children in Canada.

History[]

On 23 November 1702, governor of New France Louis-Hector de Callière gave a seigneury to Philippe de Vaudreuil, who was governor of Montreal at the time. Rigaud de Vaudreuil later became governor of New France.

In 1725, the region had only 38 inhabitants. About 1742 people began to be interested in the region and Vaudreuil's population rose. 381 people lived in Vaudreuil in 1765. With the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway, people began to live in Dorion, which was called Vaudreuil Station. Dorion became a village in 1891.

Dorion was bisected by Autoroute 20 which links Downtown Montreal and Toronto via Highway 401 in Ontario. The Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway links between Toronto and Montreal are located in Dorion. Housing developments began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, housing began sprouting north and east of Dorion.

Vaudreuil and Dorion merged in 1994, becoming the City of Vaudreuil-Dorion.

Geography[]

Vaudreuil-Dorion is located on the south shores of the Lake of Two Mountains at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, just off the western edge of Île Perrot. The city consists of two non-contiguous parts: its eastern part is the larger main area along Lake of Two Mountains where the population centres of Vaudreuil and Dorion are located; the western portion is a smaller rural area that borders Rigaud, and is separated from the eastern portion by Saint-Lazare and Hudson.

Demographics[]

Population[]

hideCanada census – Vaudreuil-Dorion community profile
	2016	2011	2006
Population:	38,117 (+14.4% from 2011)	33,305 (+29.1% from 2006)	25,789 (+29.5% from 2001)
Land area:	73.06 km2 (28.21 sq mi)	72.52 km2 (28.00 sq mi)	72.50 km2 (27.99 sq mi)
Population density:	524.1/km2 (1,357/sq mi)	459.3/km2 (1,190/sq mi)	355.7/km2 (921/sq mi)
Median age:	N/A (M: N/A, F: N/A)	37.1 (M: 36.4, F: 37.8)	36.8 (M: 35.8, F: 37.7)
Total private dwellings:	14,853	13,292	10,637
Median household income:	$N/A	$69,772	$64,191
References: 2016[5] 2011[6] 2006[7] earlier[8]

Historical Census Data - Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec

Year Pop. ±% 1991 17,109 —     1996 18,466 +7.9%

Year Pop. ±% 2001 19,920 +7.9% 2006 25,789 +29.5%

Year Pop. ±% 2011 33,305 +29.1% 2016 38,117 +14.4%

Language[]

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec
Census		Total		French				English				French & English				Other
Year		Responses		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %		Count	Trend	Pop %
2016		37,590		21,665	0.2%	57.63%		7,895	21.55%	21%		815	114.0%	2.17%		6,370	50.47%	16.97%
2011		32,590		21,245	14.03%	65.19%		6,495	56.1%	19.93%		610	34.42%	1.87%		4,240	82.4%	13.01%
2006		25,400		18,630	14.6%	73.35%		4,160	57.9%	16.38%		285	72.7%	1.12%		2,325	294.1%	9.15%
2001		19,650		16,260	11.5%	82.75%		2,635	8.0%	13.41%		165	36.5%	0.84%		590	22.9%	3.00%
1996		18,185		14,580	n/a	80.18%		2,865	n/a	15.75%		260	n/a	1.43%		480	n/a	2.64%

Transportation[]

The city is the point of intersection for two of Canada's busiest highways: Autoroute 40/Autoroute 30/Autoroute 20 (connecting the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor) and Highway 417 connects to Ottawa and Arnprior, Autoroute 20 and Highway 401 connects Toronto to Montreal and Autoroute 30 is Montreal's Southern Bypass.

Local bus service is operated by Exo La Presqu'Île, connecting to the Vaudreuil and Dorion stations on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.

Media[]

CJVD-FM operates studios in Vaudreuil-Dorion, broadcasting at 100.1 FM in Vaudreuil-Soulanges, the West Island and Valleyfield. On the air since 2008, CJVD airs a French and English hits format spanning from the 1960s to 1995.

Education[]

Commission scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone public schools:

• École Brind'Amour Pavillon P
• École Sainte-Madeleine
• École Saint-Michel
• École Harwood (serves sector Dorion-Garden^[9])
• École du Papillon-Bleu (pavillon St-Jean-Baptiste and pavillon Sainte-Trinité)
• École Hymne-au-Printemps
• École Secondaire de la Cité-des-Jeunes

Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone public schools:

• Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School
• Other sections are zoned to Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Hudson, St. Patrick Elementary School in Pincourt, and Birchwood Elementary School and Evergreen Elementary School in Saint-Lazare.^[10]

Notable people[]

• Christian Chagnon - handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
• André Hainault - soccer player, Canada and Houston Dynamo
• Constant Montpellier - jockey
• Norbert Murphy - archer, Paralympic bronze medalist
• Hormisdas Pilon - Quebec politician
• Sasha Pokulok - ice hockey defenceman
• Marc-André Servant - ice dancer
• Marcel Braitstein- Sculptor whose work is in major museum collections throughout Canada, particularly in Quebec.
• Maxime Deschamps - figure skater

See also[]

• List of cities in Quebec

References[]

External links[]

• (in French) Ville de Vaudreuil-Dorion
• City of Vaudreuil-Dorion
• Surrounding area - Hudson, Quebec