Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec

Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in Deux-Montagnes Regional County Municipality. It is crossed from east to west by road 344, commonly known as Oka road. The town shares its borders with Deux-Montagnes to the east, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac to the west, the lake of Two-Mountains to the south and Saint-Eustache to the north.

It has two elementary schools (Horizon-du-Lac and Des-Lucioles) and one high school (Liberté-Jeunesse). It shares police, firefighters, waterworks and other services with the city of Deux-Montagnes.

Formerly known as a rural town where most of its inhabitants were seasonal vacationers, since 1995, the population as grown from 8,300 people to 11,300 in 2006 up to almost 15,000 nowadays.

Demographics

Population:^[2]

• Population in 2006: 11,311 (2001 to 2006 population change: 29.4 %)
• Population in 2001: 8,742
• Population in 1996: 8,295
• Population in 1991: 7,410

Total private dwellings, excluding seasonal cottages: 4276 (total: 4461)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 6.5 %
• French as first language: 89.1 %
• English and French as first language: 1.2 %
• Other as first language: 3.2 %

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