Chomedey, Quebec

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Chomedey is a neighbourhood in the southwest of the city of Laval and was a separate municipality until the 1965 municipal mergers. Named after Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, part of the neighbourhood had previously been known as L'Abord à Plouffe, and was once part of the seigneurie system. In 1961 L'Abord-à-Plouffe amalgamated with Renaud and Saint-Martin, creating Chomedey. Chomedey is bordered on the south by the Rivière des Prairies, on the east by Laval-des-Rapides, on the north by Sainte-Rose, on the north-west by Fabreville and on the west by Sainte-Dorothée. Chomedey's city hall became the city hall for all of Laval.

Since the 1960s, Chomedey's demographic composition has been different than Laval's other neighbourhoods. Mirroring the geographic linguistic divisions in Montreal, there are more English-speakers in the west of Ile Jesus than in the east, and Chomedey has been home to the city's Anglophone and allophone minorities, notably Greeks, Jews, Armenians, and Arabs from various countries. It voted overwhelmingly to not separate in the 1995 Quebec referendum and was in the center of a spoiled ballot controversy, as it had 11.7 % of its total ballots spoiled, an unusually high percentage compared to other provincial electoral districts.

Chomedey has been rated ninth among the best districts of the Greater Montreal area (ahead of Côte-des-Neiges, Outremont and Parc extension) in the popular "Best of Montreal" readers' poll 2006 of the Mirror paper.

According to the 2001 Census, Chomedey had 85,316 residents. 28% spoke only French, 10% English, 58% were bilingual in both French and English and 3% spoke other languages than French and English. [1]

The postal codes for this area are H7S, H7T, H7V and H7W.