Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot () is the largest of four municipalities located on Île Perrot, west of the island of Montreal, Quebec. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 10,654. It hosts the island's first church built in 1740 originally situated at Pointe-du-Moulin which was reconstituted as the Chapelle du Souvenir in 1953 beside the church of Sainte-Jeanne-de-Chantal across from the town hall.
History The island was granted as a seigneury on 29 October 1672, to François-Marie Perrot (1644–1691), captain in the Picardy Regiment and governor of Montreal in 1670.
In 1949, the Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot was formed out of the Parish Municipality of L'Île-Perrot. A year later, it lost part of its territory when the Village Municipality of Pincourt was created.
On 18 December 1986, the Town of Pointe-du-Moulin (founded in 1958) was amalgamated into Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, which changed statutes from parish municipality to (regular) municipality in 1998, and became a ville in 2004.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Canada Census Mother Tongue - Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, Quebec Census Total Year Responses Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % 6,320 3.8% 55.3% 2,555 10.6% 22.4% 375 78.6% 3.3% 1,860 34.8% 16.3% 6,570 4.6% 61.8% 2,310 3.5% 21.7% 210 10.6% 2.0% 1,380 25.5% 13.0% 6,890 2.1% 65.9% 2,230 12.6% 21.3% 235 56.7% 2.3% 1,100 57.1% 10.5% 7,035 10.4% 71.3% 1,980 29.8% 20.1% 150 20.0% 1.5% 700 38.6% 7.1% 6,375 18.6% 74.7% 1,525 22.5% 17.9% 125 19.0% 1.5% 505 71.2% 5.9% 5,375 n/a 76.6% 1,245 n/a 17.7% 105 n/a 1.5% 295 n/a 4.2%
Government List of former mayors:
Michel Tarte (2001–2005) Serge Roy (2005–2009) Marie-Claude Nichols (2009–2014) Danie Deschênes (2014–present)
Infrastructure There is a shuttle bus service operated by CIT La Presqu'Île connecting to the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.
Education Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools. École de la Samare École Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde Some areas are zoned to École La Perdriolle in L'Île-Perrot"Liste des bassins desservis par les écoles en 2017-2018." Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs. Retrieved on 30 September 2017.
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools. A part of the community is zoned to Dorset Elementary School in Baie-d'Urfé and another is zoned to Edgewater Elementary School and St. Patrick Elementary School in Pincourt."School Board Map ." Lester B. Pearson School Board. Retrieved on 28 September 2017.
See also List of anglophone communities in Quebec List of cities in Quebec
References
External links
Official website