Vaudreuil-Dorion

Template:Expand French Template:Use Canadian English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox settlement Vaudreuil-Dorion (Template:IPA) is a suburb of Greater Montreal, in the Montérégie region of southwestern Quebec, Canada. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, it is located in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality.

History

On 23 November 1702, governor of New France Louis-Hector de Callière gave a seigneury to Philippe de Vaudreuil, who was governor of Montreal at the time. Rigaud de Vaudreuil later became governor of New France.

In 1725, the region had only 38 inhabitants. Around 1742, people began to be interested in the region and Vaudreuil's population rose. 381 people lived in Vaudreuil in 1765. With the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway, people began to live in Dorion, which was called Vaudreuil Station. Dorion became a village in 1891.

Dorion was bisected by Autoroute 20 which links Downtown Montreal and Toronto via Highway 401 in Ontario. The Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway links between Toronto and Montreal are located in Dorion. Housing developments began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, housing began sprouting north and east of Dorion.

Vaudreuil and Dorion merged in 1994, becoming the City of Vaudreuil-Dorion.

Geography

Vaudreuil-Dorion is located on the south shores of the Lake of Two Mountains at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, just off the western edge of Île Perrot. The city consists of two non-contiguous parts: its eastern part is the larger main area along Lake of Two Mountains where the population centres of Vaudreuil and Dorion are located; the western portion is a smaller rural area that borders Rigaud, and is separated from the eastern portion by Saint-Lazare and Hudson.

Climate

Vaudreuil-Dorion has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb).

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Vaudreuil-Dorion 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

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec
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		20,660	Template:Decrease 4.6%	48.5%		9,715	Template:Increase 23.1%	22.8%		1,505	Template:Increase 84.7%	3.5%		9,130	Template:Increase 43.3%	21.4%
Template:Center		Template:Center		21,665	Template:Increase 0.2%	57.6%		7,895	Template:Increase 21.6%	21.0%		815	Template:Increase 114.0%	2.2%		6,370	Template:Increase 50.5%	17.0%
Template:Center		Template:Center		21,245	Template:Increase 14.0%	65.2%		6,495	Template:Increase 56.1%	19.9%		610	Template:Increase 34.4%	1.9%		4,240	Template:Increase 82.4%	13.0%
Template:Center		Template:Center		18,630	Template:Increase 14.6%	73.4%		4,160	Template:Increase 57.9%	16.4%		285	Template:Increase 72.7%	1.1%		2,325	Template:Increase 294.1%	9.2%
Template:Center		Template:Center		16,260	Template:Increase 11.5%	82.8%		2,635	Template:Decrease 8.0%	13.4%		165	Template:Decrease 36.5%	0.8%		590	Template:Increase 22.9%	3.0%
Template:Center		Template:Center		14,580	n/a	80.2%		2,865	n/a	15.8%		260	n/a	1.4%		480	n/a	2.6%

Local government

Vaudreuil-Dorion federal election results<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Year		Liberal		Conservative		Bloc Québécois		New Democratic		Green
rowspan="2" style="width: 0.25em; background-color: Template:Canadian party colour|	2021	Template:Canadian party colour | 49%	9,522	Template:Canadian party colour | 15%	2,921	Template:Canadian party colour | 22%	4,340	Template:Canadian party colour | 10%	2,021	Template:Canadian party colour | 2%	419
2019	Template:Canadian party colour | 48%	10,151	Template:Canadian party colour | 11%	2,324	Template:Canadian party colour | 25%	5,166	Template:Canadian party colour | 11%	2,247	Template:Canadian party colour | 4%	917

Vaudreuil-Dorion provincial election results<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Year		CAQ		Liberal		QC solidaire		Parti Québécois
rowspan="2" style="width: 0.25em; background-color: Template:Canadian party colour|	2018	Template:Canadian party colour | 34%	5,757	Template:Canadian party colour | 38%	6,548	Template:Canadian party colour | 10%	1,802	Template:Canadian party colour | 11%	1,878
2014	Template:Canadian party colour | 17%	3,218	Template:Canadian party colour | 57%	10,950	Template:Canadian party colour | 5%	1,037	Template:Canadian party colour | 18%	3,465

Vaudreuil-Dorion forms part of the federal electoral district of Vaudreuil—Soulanges and has been represented by Peter Schiefke of the Liberal Party since 2015. Provincially, Vaudreuil-Dorion is part of the Vaudreuil electoral district and is represented by Marie-Claude Nichols, an independent MNA, since 2014.

List of former mayors:<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

• Jean Lemaire (1994–1998)
• Réjean Boyer (1998–2005)
• Guy Pilon (2005–present)

Economy

Première Moisson<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Bakery was founded in Dorion in 1991. The products (breads, cakes, pastries and pastries) are still prepared and distributed in its various branches across Quebec. As of July 2013, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Vaudreuil-Dorion (CCIVD) will serve the territory of the MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges.

Transportation

The city is the point of intersection for three of Canada's busiest highways: Autoroute 40/Autoroute 30/Autoroute 20 (connecting the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor) and Highway 417 connects to Ottawa and Arnprior, Autoroute 20 and Highway 401 connects Toronto to Montreal and Autoroute 30 is Montreal's Southern Bypass.

Local bus service is operated by Exo La Presqu'Île, connecting to the Vaudreuil and Dorion stations on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.

Media

CJVD-FM operates studios in Vaudreuil-Dorion, broadcasting at 100.1 FM in Vaudreuil-Soulanges, the West Island and Valleyfield. On the air since 2008, CJVD airs a French and English hits format spanning from the 1960s to 1995.

Education

Commission scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone public schools:

• École Brind'Amour Pavillon P
• École Sainte-Madeleine
• École Saint-Michel
• École Harwood (serves sector Dorion-Garden<ref>"Liste des bassins desservis par les écoles en 2017-2018." Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs. Retrieved on 30 September 2017.</ref>)
• École du Papillon-Bleu (pavillon St-Jean-Baptiste and pavillon Sainte-Trinité)
• École Hymne-au-Printemps
• École Secondaire de la Cité-des-Jeunes

Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone public schools:

• Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School
• Other sections are zoned to Mount Pleasant Elementary School in Hudson, St. Patrick Elementary School in Pincourt, and Birchwood Elementary School and Evergreen Elementary School in Saint-Lazare.<ref>"School Board Map Template:Webarchive." Lester B. Pearson School Board. Retrieved on 28 September 2017.</ref>

Notable people

• Christian Chagnon - handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics
• André Hainault - soccer player, Canada and Houston Dynamo
• Constant Montpellier - jockey
• Norbert Murphy - archer, Paralympic bronze medalist
• Hormisdas Pilon - Quebec politician
• Sasha Pokulok - ice hockey defenceman
• Marc-André Servant - ice dancer
• Maxime Deschamps - figure skater
• Lionel Groulx - Quebec nationalist

See also

• List of anglophone communities in Quebec
• List of cities in Quebec

External links

• Template:In lang Ville de Vaudreuil-Dorion