Varennes () is an off-island suburb of Montréal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Saint Lawrence River in the Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality. The city is approximately from Downtown Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 20,994. In 2015, the population is listed at 24,000.

History

The history of Varennes starts with the arrival of the Régiment de Carignan-SalièresRégiment de Carignan-Salières In french on Wikipédia in New France. René Gaultier, sieur de Varennes, was given three concessions by intendant Jean Talon in 1672, le Tremblay, la Gabelle and Varennes.(French)Toponymy page on the Varennes web site Jaques-René, one of his sons, was the second seigneur of Varennes. Five seignories later composed the Varennes parish. They were the seignories du Cap de Varennes, de l'île Sainte Thérèse, de Grand Maison, du Cap de la trinité and du Cap Saint-Michel. The town was captured by the British in 1760 during the Montreal Campaign. It was part of the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then of Lower Canada, before it returned to being part of Quebec again in 1867 due to Canadian Confederation.

Varennes gained the status of city in 1972.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Varennes 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 - Varennes, Quebec Census Total Year Responses Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % 19,855 1,7% 94.2% 315 1.6% 1.5% 225 87.5% 1.1% 555 30.6% 2.6% 20,190 1,0% 95,6% 310 13.8% 1.5% 120 4.0% 0.6% 425 16,4% 2.0% 19,985 0.1% 95.9% 360 18.0% 1.7% 125 177.8% 0.6% 365 11.0% 1.8% 20,010 5.4% 96.3% 305 18.7% 1.5% 45 28.6% 0.2% 410 241.6% 2.0% 18,990 4.0% 97.3% 375 31.6% 1.9% 35 63.2% 0.2% 120 100.0% 0.6% 18,265 n/a 97.7% 285 n/a 1.5% 95 n/a 0.5% 60 n/a 0.3%

Notable people

Gilles Courteau Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion Félix Geoffrion Marc-Amable Girard Sylvain Grenier

Marie-Mai Louis Massue Philippe-François de Rastel de Rocheblave Théodore Robitaille Louis-Adélard Sénécal Marie-Marguerite d'Youville

See also Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality Saint Lawrence River Saint-Charles River (Varennes) List of cities in Quebec

References

External links Official website