Mascouche
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Mascouche (Template:IPAc-en; Template:IPA) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southern Quebec, Canada. The city is located on the Mascouche River within the Les Moulins Regional County Municipality and has a population of 51,183,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> ranking 20th among Quebec municipalities.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
The name comes from Algonquin word Template:Lang meaning "bear plain" in singular. Compare plural form to Template:Lang for the Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality located nearby.
History
Mascouche (then known as Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> received city status on December 9, 1970, under mayor Gilles Forest.
On June 21, 2021, the city was struck by an EF2 tornado, killing one person.
Infrastructure
Montréal/Mascouche Airport, the largest regional airport in Quebec, was three kilometres southeast of the city. It has now been replaced by the CentrOparc, a business district with the ambition of joining a transit-oriented urban development (DOT).
Autoroutes 640 and 25, both major national transportation routes, meet just south of the centre of the city.
Mascouche is connected to Montreal's Central Station by commuter rail via the Mascouche station of the Réseau de transport métropolitain's Mascouche line.
L'Étang-du-Grand-Coteau, an urban park situated in the city centre on Mascouche Boulevard, has the same area as Mount Royal Park in Montreal.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mascouche had a population of Template:Val living in Template:Val of its Template:Val total private dwellings, a change of Template:Percentage from its 2016 population of Template:Val. With a land area of Template:Convert, it had a population density of Template:Pop density in 2021.<ref name=2021census>Template:Cite web</ref> Template:Canada census
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| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
| Template:Center | Template:Center | 42 740 | Template:Increase 7.03% | 92.10% | 1 150 | Template:Increase 12.17% | 2.47% | 355 | Template:Increase 120.0% | 0.76% | 1 840 | Template:Increase 39.39% | 3.96% | |||||
| Template:Center | Template:Center | 39,580 | Template:Increase 25.8% | 93.82% | 1,010 | Template:Increase 5.2% | 2.39% | 275 | Template:Increase 29.09% | 0.65% | 1,320 | Template:Increase 26.3% | 3.13% | |||||
| Template:Center | Template:Center | 31,470 | Template:Increase 13.4% | 93.66% | 960 | Template:Increase 17.1% | 2.86% | 125 | Template:Decrease 40.5% | 0.37% | 1,045 | Template:Increase 111.1% | 3.11% | |||||
| Template:Center | Template:Center | 27,760 | Template:Increase 5.0% | 94.79% | 820 | Template:Decrease 9.4% | 2.80% | 210 | Template:Increase 82.6% | 0.72% | 495 | Template:Increase 3.1% | 1.69% | |||||
| Template:Center | Template:Center | 26,430 | n/a | 94.63% | 905 | n/a | 3.24% | 115 | n/a | 0.41% | 480 | n/a | 1.72% | |||||
Mayors
- André Duval (1955–1965)
- Gilles Forest (1965–1983)
- Bernard Patenaude (1983–1992)
- Richard Marcotte (1992–2012)
- Denise Paquette (2012–2013)
- Guillaume Tremblay (2013–present)
Education
Template:Expand section The Commission scolaire des Affluents operates Francophone public schools. They include:
Primary schools:
- L'école Aux 4 Vents
- L'école De la Source
- L'école La Mennais
- L'école des Hauts-Bois
- L'école Soleil-Levant
- L'école Le Rucher
- L'école de La Seigneurie
Secondary schools :
One professional school, École L'Impact.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates Anglophone public schools:
- Pinewood Elementary School in Mascouche serves the western portion<ref>"PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY ZONE." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.</ref>
- Franklin Hill Elementary School in Repentigny serves the eastern portion<ref>"FRANKLIN HILL ELEMENTARY ZONE." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.</ref>
- Rosemere High School (all areas) in Rosemere<ref>"Rosemere High School Zone." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on December 8, 2014.</ref>
Famous residents
Mascouche is the hometown of baseball player Éric Gagné.
It is also Émilie Mondor's hometown, a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres.
See also
- Mascouche River
- Saint Pierre River (Mascouche)
- Les Moulins Regional County Municipality
- List of cities in Quebec
References
External links
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