Argenteuil Regional County Municipality

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Argenteuil (Template:IPA) is a regional county municipality located in the Laurentides region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Lachute.<ref name="mamrot">Template:Mamrot</ref>

History

In 1682, Charles-Joseph d'Ailleboust was granted by Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Governor General of New France, a domain of Template:Convert of land. This fiefdom was bounded by the Ottawa River to the south, a line through the center of the hamlet of Carillon in the west and Clear Lake (Lac Clair) to the north. Since Ailleboust already owned a house in Argenteuil near Paris, he called his domain Argenteuil Seigneury. In 1697, the Lord of Ailleboust and his wife Catherine Le Gardeur sold their seigneury to their son Pierre d'Ailleboust d'Argenteuil. Subsequently over the years, the fiefdom was held by Pierre-Louis Panet, and then by Major Murray.<ref name="Lachute-h">Template:Cite web</ref>

After the conquest of New France by the British in 1759 during the Seven Years' War, the British implemented their laws, but maintained certain French seigneurial rights. In 1796, Jedediah Lane, from Jericho, Vermont, bought from Major Murray several thousand acres of land on both sides of the North River (Rivière du Nord), where Lachute is today. In 1809, Thomas Barron bought the land of the territory that would become the center of the town of Lachute. Five years later, Sir John Johnson, a Loyalist from New York who had resettled in Canada after the American Revolution, bought the rest of the Argenteuil Seigneury. He built a sawmill and gave land for churches, helping to attract new settlers to Argenteuil.<ref name="Lachute-h"/>

In 1854, the Parliament of the Province of Canada abolished the seigneurial system, and the County of Argenteuil was created the following year.<ref name="Lachute-h"/> In January 1983, the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality succeeded the County of Argenteuil.<ref name="CTQ-A">Template:Cite web</ref>

Subdivisions

There are 9 subdivisions within the RCM:<ref name="mamrot"/>

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Cities (2)

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Municipalities (3)

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Townships (3)

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Villages (1)

Grenville

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Demographics

Population

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Language

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec<ref name="scpast"/><ref name="cp2011stats"/><ref name="census2016"/>
Census	Total	Template:Center			Template:Center			Template:Center			Template:Center
Year	Responses	Count	Trend	Pop %	Count	Trend	Pop %	Count	Trend	Pop %	Count	Trend	Pop %
Template:Center	Template:Center	26,010	Template:Increase 1.4%	81.5%	4,820	Template:Decrease 4.1%	15.1%	425	Template:Increase 1.1%	1.3%	650	Template:Increase 16.1%	2.0%
Template:Center	Template:Center	25,650	Template:Increase 9.7%	81.03%	5,025	Template:Decrease 2.0%	15.87%	420	Template:Increase 27.3%	1.33%	560	Template:Decrease 10.4%	1.77%
Template:Center	Template:Center	23,375	Template:Increase 5.6%	79.35%	5,130	Template:Decrease 2.4%	17.41%	330	Template:Decrease 10.8%	1.12%	625	Template:Increase 31.6%	2.12%
Template:Center	Template:Center	22,130	Template:Increase 2.8%	78.39%	5,255	Template:Decrease 10.8%	18.62%	370	Template:Increase 42.3%	1.31%	475	Template:Increase 3.3%	1.68%
Template:Center	Template:Center	21,525	n/a	76.51%	5,890	n/a	20.93%	260	n/a	0.92%	460	n/a	1.64%

Transportation

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:<ref>Official Transport Quebec Road Map</ref>

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