Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Quebec

Saint-Joseph-du-Lac
Municipality

Location within Deux-Montagnes RCM.
St-Joseph-du-Lac

Location in central Quebec.

Coordinates: 45°32′N 74°00′W / 45.533°N 74.000°W / 45.533; -74.000Coordinates: 45°32′N 74°00′W / 45.533°N 74.000°W / 45.533; -74.000[1]
Country  Canada
Province  Quebec
Region Laurentides
RCM Deux-Montagnes
Constituted July 1, 1855
Government[2]
  Mayor Alain Guindon
  Federal riding Mirabel
  Prov. riding Mirabel
Area[2][3]
  Total 41.80 km2 (16.14 sq mi)
  Land 41.38 km2 (15.98 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
  Total 6,195
  Density 149.7/km2 (388/sq mi)
  Pop 2006-2011 Increase 24.9%
  Dwellings 2,325
Time zone EST (UTC−5)
  Summer (DST) EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s) J0N 1M0
Area code(s) 450 and 579
Highways
A-640

Route 344
Website www.sjdl.qc.ca
Municipal office of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac

Saint-Joseph-du-Lac is a municipality in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Deux-Montagnes Regional County Municipality.

History

The territory of the municipality of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac was part of the Lac des Deux-Montagnes Seigneury for over a hundred years. This seigneury was granted on October 17, 1717, to the Sulpician Order of the Ecclesiastical Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris, who already were lords of the Island of Montreal. In 1783, the Sulpicians signed a total of 25 concessions. Over the next ten years, from 1782 to 1793, 81 lands on the Saint-Joseph side were granted to settlers. In 1803, Côte Saint-Joseph Road was extended northward to allow settlers to travel to Saint-Benoît.[4]

Around 1850, the inhabitants of the Saint-Joseph Concession started the process to obtain a parish, which was formally established in 1853. Two years later on July 1, 1855, the Parish Municipality of Saint-Joseph was formed.[5] It extended over a length of 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from Lake of Two Mountains to the limits of Saint-Benoît Parish, and a width of 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi). The population at that time was 1020 people in about 180 families.[4]

In 1856, the post office opened, being identified as Saint-Joseph-du-Lac in order to distinguish it from the many other locations called Saint-Joseph. In time this name also came to be used for the entire municipality.[5]

In 1953, the southern portion of the municipality along Lake of Two Mountains separated from Saint-Joseph-du-Lac and became the Village Municipality of Pointe-Calumet. [6]

In the 1970s, Autoroute 640 was built through Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, putting economic pressure on the municipality. This led to new housing developments for Montreal commuters and a noticeable growth in population that had previously been stable for nearly 80 years. During the following two decades, several more new developments were built, including the Paquin, Brunet, and Parc Sectors.[4]

Demographics

Population trend:[7]

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 2268 (total dwellings: 2325)

Mother tongue:

Education

The Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles (CSSMI) operates Francophone public schools.[8]

The Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board is the area English school board. Lake of Two Mountains High School in Deux-Montagnes serves this community.[9]

See also

References

  1. Reference number 333322 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
  2. 1 2 Geographic code 72025 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
  3. 1 2 "(Code 2472025) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
  4. 1 2 3 "Découvrir Saint-Joseph - Histoire" (in French). Municipalité de Saint-Joseph-du-Lac. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
  5. 1 2 "Saint-Joseph-du-Lac (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
  6. "Pointe-Calumet (Municipalité)" (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec. Retrieved 2009-03-12.
  7. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011 census
  8. "Admission et inscription." Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Iles. Retrieved on December 7, 2014. "La Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Iles (CSSMI) offre ses services aux résidents des municipalités de : Blainville, Boisbriand, Bois-des-Filion, Deux-Montagnes, Lorraine, Mirabel (Saint-Augustin, Saint-Benoît, Sainte-Scholastique et secteur du Domaine-Vert), Oka, Pointe-Calumet, Rosemère, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Sainte-Thérèse, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Saint-Placide et Terrebonne Ouest."
  9. "Overview." Lake of Two Mountains High School. Retrieved on December 8, 2014.



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