Saint-Constant, Quebec

Saint-Constant (Template:IPA) is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located on the south shore of Montreal in the Roussillon Regional County Municipality of the Montérégie region. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 27,359.

History

Historic presbytery of Saint-Constant

Early settlement took place in 1725 as a result of the opening of the St. Pierre concession. The Côte Saint-Pierre mission (first name of the parish) began in 1750 with the construction of a church and two years later, the parish registers opened. Rang Saint-Pierre was the central concession of the Sault-Saint-Louis seigneurie and extended into the seigneurie of LaSalle. In 1815 Rang Saint-Pierre was nicknamed "Black Cattle Road" because it was the way cattle were transported from New York to Montreal. Centrally located in what was then Laprairie County, the village of Saint-Constant was the only location of voting from 1829 to 1841. Residents of the area witnessed or took part in the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837–1838.

Local administrative structures emerged in Saint-Constant in 1845 with the introduction of the parish municipality and the school board. However, the vast territory of the parish of Saint-Constant was already subdivided for Saint-Rémi (1840), Saint-Édouard (1833), and Saint-Isidore (1833). This trend continued with the establishment of Saint-Michel (1854), Saint-Mathieu (1919) and Sainte-Thérèse-de-Delson (1932). One of the mayors, Solime Cardinal (1815–1897), was the maternal grandfather of Charles-Émile "Charley" Trudeau, a successful French Canadian entrepreneur who became the father of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 15th Prime Minister of Canada, and grandfather of Justin Trudeau, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada.

Saint-Constant was transformed by the construction of the Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The electrification of the village occurred around 1918 and rural electrification was completed in 1939. The Rue Saint-Pierre was extended from Montées des Bouleaux/Rue Sainte-Catherine, in the direction of Route 132 in 1950. Starting in the 1950s, suburban development occurred in Saint-Constant, allowing it to obtain city status in 1973.

Demographics

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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		23,230	Template:Increase 1.4%	77.8%		1,700	Template:Increase 18.9%	5.7%		525	Template:Increase 59.1%	1.8%		3,865	Template:Increase 64.1%	12.9%
Template:Center		Template:Center		22,905	Template:Increase 5.6%	85.8%		1,430	Template:Increase 13.9%	5.4%		330	Template:Increase 29.4%	1.2%		2,355	Template:Increase 56.0%	8.8%
Template:Center		Template:Center		21,685	Template:Decrease 0.3%	87.8%		1,255	Template:Increase 17.3%	5.1%		255	Template:Increase 96.2%	1.0%		1,510	Template:Increase 67.8%	6.1%
Template:Center		Template:Center		21,750	Template:Increase 6.2%	91.2%		1,070	Template:Decrease 3.6%	4.5%		130	Template:Increase 8.3%	0.6%		900	Template:Increase 15.4%	3.8%
Template:Center		Template:Center		20,480	Template:Increase 3.7%	91.1%		1,110	Template:Increase 7.8%	4.9%		120	Template:Decrease 38.5%	0.5%		780	Template:Decrease 14.8%	3.5%
Template:Center		Template:Center		19,745	n/a	90.2%		1,030	n/a	4.7%		195	n/a	0.9%		915	n/a	4.2%

Attractions

Canadian Railway Museum

Saint-Constant is home to the Canadian Railway Museum.

Government

City hall of Saint-Constant

List of former mayors: {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst||date=__DATE__ |$B=Template:AmboxTemplate:Main other }}

• Daniel Ashby (...–2005)
• Gilles Pépin (2005–2013)
• Jean-Claude Boyer (2013–present)

Infrastructure

Local bus service in Saint-Constant is provided by the Réseau de transport métropolitain's Roussillon sector. Saint-Constant is also served by the Saint-Constant and Sainte-Catherine stations on the Réseau de transport métropolitain's Candiac line.

See also

• Saint-Regis River
• List of cities in Quebec

External links

• Official website