Ahuntsic-Cartierville
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Ahuntsic-Cartierville is a borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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[edit] Geography
The borough is located in the northern part of Montreal along the banks of the Rivière des Prairies, including some islands in the river such as Île aux Chats, Île Perry, and Île de la Visitation. It contains such regions as Sault-au-Récollet, Ahuntsic, and Cartierville. It is bounded to the east by Montreal North, to the southeast by Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension, to the southwest by Saint-Laurent, and to the west by Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
It has an area of 22.92 km² and a population of 125,145.
[edit] Politics
[edit] Municipal
The current borough mayor is Marie-Andrée Beaudoin. The borough is divided into four districts:
- Ahuntsic
- Bordeaux-Cartierville
- Saint-Sulpice
- Sault-au-Récollet
[edit] Federal and provincial
Federally, the borough is divided between the ridings of Saint-Laurent—Cartierville and Ahuntsic, with a small portion in the riding of Bourassa.
Provincially, the borough is divided between the Saint-Laurent, Acadie, and Crémazie electoral districts.
[edit] Features
The borough is served by the northeastern end of the orange line of the Montreal metro (Henri-Bourassa, Sauvé, and Crémazie stations); by the Deux-Montagnes and Blainville AMT commuter train lines; and by Quebec Autoroutes 15 (Laurentian Autoroute/Autoroute des Laurentides) and 40 (Metropolitan Autoroute/Autoroute Métropolitaine).
Important features of the borough include the Cégep de Bois-de-Boulogne, the Bordeaux Prison, Sacré-Coeur Hospital, Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard, Parc Ahuntsic, and the Parcs-natures de l'Île-de-la-Visitation and du Bois-de-Saraguay.
[edit] History
[edit] Sault-au-Récollet
One of the oldest villages on the island of Montreal, it still retains its village atmosphere with many houses dating from the 1700s and 1800s. It was the original site of Fort Lorette, a trading post and mission for the converion of the First Nations people of the area.
It grew prosperous in the 1700s with the construction of a mill on the rapids on the Rivière des Prairies (from which the village derives its name: Sault-au-Récollet, or Recollet Falls). A dam was built on the narrow arm of the river that passes between the village and Visitation Island, which splits the river in two at that point. A museum and cultural centre, the Maison du Pressoir, perpetuates this memory. A hydroelectric dam was built later and still exists further down the river.
The village and Visitation Island are surrounded by the greenspace of the Parc-Nature de l'Île de la Visitation. The village is famous for the Visitation Church, one of the oldest in Montreal, which is listed as a historical monument.
[edit] Cartierville
Cartierville grew as a suburb when it became in 1898 the north terminus of the Montreal Park and Island Railway tramway line, also known as the "17-Cartierville". It was annexed by Montreal on December 22, 1916, and the village of Ahuntsic was annexed in 1910.
It was famous for the Belmont Park amusement park which operated from 1929 through to the 1980s.
[edit] External link
- Borough website (in French)
