Longueuil, Quebec
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Longueuil is a city in the province of Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is the seat of the Montérégie administrative region
Montérégie
Montérégie is an administrative region in southwest Québec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Granby, Longueuil, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Hyacinthe, Sorel-Tracy, and Vaudreuil-Dorion....

 and sits on the south shore
South Shore (Montreal)
The South Shore is the general term for the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec located on the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. The South Shore is located within the Quebec administrative region of Montérégie....

 of the Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...

 directly across from Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census
Canada 2006 Census
The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 16, 2006. The next census following will be the 2011 Census. Canada's total population enumerated by the 2006 census was 31,612,897...

 totaled 229,330, making it the third largest city in Greater Montreal, the fifth most populous city in Quebec and 19th largest in Canada. The city comprise three boroughs: Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

, Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

 and Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

.
Residents of Longueuil are known as Longueuillois.

Seigneurie

Longueuil was founded in 1657 by Charles Le Moyne
Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay
Charles le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay ,as many people of his time, had a variety of occupations. Born in Dieppe, France in Normandy, he came to New France in 1641. He became lord of Longueuil in Canada....

 as a seigneurie
Seigneurial system of New France
The seigneurial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land distribution used in the North American colonies of New France.-Introduction to New France:...

. According to Abbé Faillon, Charles Le Moyne, lord of the area starting in 1657, named Longueuil after a village which is today the seat of a canton in the district of Dieppe in his homeland of Normandy
Normandy
Normandy is a geographical region corresponding to the former Duchy of Normandy. It is in France.The continental territory covers 30,627 km² and forms the preponderant part of Normandy and roughly 5% of the territory of France. It is divided for administrative purposes into two régions:...

. In France, the name is spelled "Longueil
Longueil, Seine-Maritime
Longueil is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A farming village situated by the banks of the river Saâne in the Pays de Caux, some southwest of Dieppe on the D 27 and the D 925 at its junction with the D 127...

" and it is rumored that it was a mistake to spell it "Longueuil".

The seigneurial system ended in 1845 and Longueuil was turned into a parish
Parish
A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 named Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil.

Territorial evolution

In 1848, a portion detached from the parish and officially established as the village of Longueuil
Old Longueuil
Old Longueuil is a historic neighborhood located in the borough of the same name, in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.Old Longueuil usually refers to the pre-1961 city of Longueuil...

. This same village became a town in 1874, and then a city in 1920. Musician Paul Pratt
Paul Pratt
Paul Pratt was a Canadian clarinetist, pianist, conductor, music educator, composer, and public administrator. His compositional output includes marches, waltzes, a Fantaisie-Impromptu for band, and some works for solo piano....

 notably served as the city's mayor from 1935-1966.

Longueuil's city limits changed for the first time in 1961 when it merged with Montréal-Sud
Montréal-Sud
Montréal-Sud was a suburb of Montréal located on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River founded in 1906. Montréal-Sud was created from land of the Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil parish...

 in 1961, and again in 1969 when it merged with Ville Jacques-Cartier. In both cases, Longueuil was the surviving municipality.

On January 1, 2002, the provincial government amalgamated Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

 with Boucherville, Brossard
Brossard
Brossard is a suburban area, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, opposite the island and city of Montreal.Brossard is subdivided into many smaller sections. These sections are characterized by having street names that all begin with the same letter of the alphabet...

, Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

, LeMoyne
LeMoyne, Quebec
LeMoyne is a neighbourhood in Longueuil, Quebec within the Vieux-Longueuil borough. LeMoyne makes up 2% of the total area of the Vieux-Longueuil borough and is the only neighbourhood of the borough that wasn't part of the pre-2002 city of Longueuil...

, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

 and Saint-Lambert
Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

. As with the 1960s, the name Longueuil was chosen for the new city.

On January 1, 2006, Boucherville, Brossard, Saint-Lambert and Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville demerged from Longueuil and became independent cities once again. As such, the current city of Longueuil now includes only the former cities of Longueuil (1969-2002), Saint-Hubert, Greenfield Park and LeMoyne.

Geography

Longueuil occupies 115.59 square kilometres (44.6 sq mi) of land. The city is bordered by the cities of Saint-Lambert
Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

 and Brossard
Brossard
Brossard is a suburban area, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, opposite the island and city of Montreal.Brossard is subdivided into many smaller sections. These sections are characterized by having street names that all begin with the same letter of the alphabet...

 to the west, Boucherville to the east, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville to the south and the Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...

 and Montreal to the north. The city of Longueuil is located approximately 7 kilometres (5 mi) south of Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 on the south shore
South Shore (Montreal)
The South Shore is the general term for the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec located on the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. The South Shore is located within the Quebec administrative region of Montérégie....

 of the Saint Lawrence River
Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence is a large river flowing approximately from southwest to northeast in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. It is the primary drainage conveyor of the Great Lakes Basin...

.

Longueuil is located in the Saint Lawrence River valley
Valley
In geology, a valley or dale is a depression with predominant extent in one direction. A very deep river valley may be called a canyon or gorge.The terms U-shaped and V-shaped are descriptive terms of geography to characterize the form of valleys...

, and is a vast plain
Plain
In geography, a plain is land with relatively low relief, that is flat or gently rolling. Prairies and steppes are types of plains, and the archetype for a plain is often thought of as a grassland, but plains in their natural state may also be covered in shrublands, woodland and forest, or...

. Areas near the river were originally swamp
Swamp
A swamp is a wetland with some flooding of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water. A swamp generally has a large number of hammocks, or dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates periodical inundation. The two main types of swamp are "true" or swamp...

 land with mixed forest, and later prime agricultural land. Agricultural land still exists in the portions of the city furthest from the river.

The city of Longueuil also includes Île Charron, a small island
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 in the Saint Lawrence River, and part of the Boucherville Islands.

Like Montreal, Longueuil is classified as humid continental
Humid continental climate
A humid continental climate is a climatic region typified by large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot summers and cold winters....

 or hemiboreal
Hemiboreal
Hemiboreal means halfway between the temperate and subarctic zones. The term is most frequently used in the context of ecosystems.-Botany:...

 (Köppen climate classification
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by Crimea German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen himself, notably in 1918 and 1936...

 Dfb). Longueuil has long winters, lasting from November to March, short springs during April and May, average summers, lasting from June to August, and short falls during September and October.

Cityscape

Longueuil is a residential, commercial and industrial city. It incorporates some features of an inner city
Inner city
The inner city is the central area of a major city or metropolis. In the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland, the term is often applied to the lower-income residential districts in the city centre and nearby areas...

, but is essentially a suburb
Suburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...

.

Longueuil can be classified as a commuter town
Commuter town
A commuter town is an urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out to earn their livelihood. Many commuter towns act as suburbs of a nearby metropolis that workers travel to daily, and many suburbs are commuter towns...

 as a large portion of its residents commute to work in Montreal. Most buildings are single-family homes constructed in the post-war period. There are three boroughs in Longueuil: Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert and Greenfield Park.

Vieux Longueuil

Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

 is the borough of Longueuil that correspond to the former city of Longueuil and the former town of LeMoyne
LeMoyne, Quebec
LeMoyne is a neighbourhood in Longueuil, Quebec within the Vieux-Longueuil borough. LeMoyne makes up 2% of the total area of the Vieux-Longueuil borough and is the only neighbourhood of the borough that wasn't part of the pre-2002 city of Longueuil...

.

Saint-Hubert

Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

 is the second largest borough of Longueuil in terms of population and the largest in terms of area. This borough is almost entirely suburban and residential, although there are still agricultural portions in the south and east.

Greenfield Park

Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

 is primarily a post-war area divided into two sections separated by Taschereau Boulevard
Taschereau Boulevard
Taschereau Boulevard is a major suburban boulevard located on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a section of Quebec Route 134 and runs from Longueuil to Candiac . It is named after the prominent Quebec family that included former premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau. At , it is one...

. It has the city's highest proportion of Anglophones
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

.

Population

Population trend [A]
Census Population Change (%)
2006 229,330 1.58%
2001 225,761 0.07%
1996 227,408 0.0%
1991 226,965 N/A


[A] These figures correspond to the territory of the city of Longueuil following the municipal reorganizations of 2002 and 2006.

According to the 2006 Canadian Census
Canada 2006 Census
The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 16, 2006. The next census following will be the 2011 Census. Canada's total population enumerated by the 2006 census was 31,612,897...

, the City of Longueuil had 229,330 people, an increase of 1.6% over 2001's figure of 225,761. Longueuil occupies 115.59 square kilometres of space, giving the city a population density of 1,984 persons per kilometre squared. There were 101,746 private dwellings, 98,735 of which were occupied by usual residents.

Of the 132,570 workers in Longueuil, the median income was $26,537, which is above Quebec's provincial average of $25,464. Among the 69,990 full time workers, the median income was $37,521 or slightly below the provincial average.
Mother tongue language
Language Population Percentage (%)
French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

181,785 80.15%
English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

15,400 6.79%
Both English and French 1,795 0.79%
French and a non-official language 1,245 0.55%
English and a non-official language 350 0.15%
English, French and a non-official language 205 0.09%
Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

5,315 2.34%
Arabic 3,155 1.39%
Creole
Haitian Creole language
Haitian Creole language , often called simply Creole or Kreyòl, is a language spoken in Haiti by about twelve million people, which includes all Haitians in Haiti and via emigration, by about two to three million speakers residing in the Bahamas, Cuba, Canada, France, Cayman Islands, French...

1,980 0.87%
Romanian
Romanian language
Romanian Romanian Romanian (or Daco-Romanian; obsolete spellings Rumanian, Roumanian; self-designation: română, limba română ("the Romanian language") or românește (lit. "in Romanian") is a Romance language spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova...

1,520 0.67%
Persian
Persian language
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...

1,455 0.64%
Vietnamese
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...

1,395 0.62%
Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

1,365 0.60%
Chinese
Chinese language
The Chinese language is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degrees. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages...

, n.o.s.
1,280 0.56%
Italian
Italian language
Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...

1,245 0.55%

Ethnic Origin
Ethnic Origin Population Percent
Canadian 132,210 58.3%
French
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

68,325 30.1%
Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

14,115 6.2%
English
English people
The English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...

8,075 3.6%
Italian
Italian people
The Italian people are an ethnic group that share a common Italian culture, ancestry and speak the Italian language as a mother tongue. Within Italy, Italians are defined by citizenship, regardless of ancestry or country of residence , and are distinguished from people...

7,870 3.5%
First Nations
First Nations
First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. There are currently over 630 recognised First Nations governments or bands spread across Canada, roughly half of which are in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia. The...

6,780 3%
Scottish
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

6,635 2.9%
Québécois
French-speaking Quebecer
French-speaking Quebecers are francophone residents of the Canadian province of Quebec....

5,630 2.5%
Haiti
Haiti
Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

an
5,140 2.3%
German 4,870 2.1%
Spanish
Spanish people
The Spanish are citizens of the Kingdom of Spain. Within Spain, there are also a number of vigorous nationalisms and regionalisms, reflecting the country's complex history....

3,315 1.5%
Chinese
Chinese people
The term Chinese people may refer to any of the following:*People with Han Chinese ethnicity ....

3,080 1.4%
Portuguese
Portuguese people
The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....

2,590 1.1%

Visible Minorities
Race Population Percentage (%)
White 199,980 88.2%
Black 9,230 4.1%
Latin American 4,580 2%
Arab 3,565 1.6%
Chinese 2,710 1.2%
Southeast Asian 2,340 1%
South Asian 1,610 0.7%


Municipal

Longueuil merged
Municipal reorganization in Quebec
The most recent episode of municipal reorganization in Quebec, Canada, was undertaken in 2002 by the Parti Québécois Government of Quebec, headed by Premier Lucien Bouchard and his successor Bernard Landry....

 on January 1, 2002 with the communities of Boucherville, Brossard
Brossard
Brossard is a suburban area, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, opposite the island and city of Montreal.Brossard is subdivided into many smaller sections. These sections are characterized by having street names that all begin with the same letter of the alphabet...

, Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

, LeMoyne
LeMoyne, Quebec
LeMoyne is a neighbourhood in Longueuil, Quebec within the Vieux-Longueuil borough. LeMoyne makes up 2% of the total area of the Vieux-Longueuil borough and is the only neighbourhood of the borough that wasn't part of the pre-2002 city of Longueuil...

, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

, and Saint-Lambert
Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

. These cities became boroughs of the Longueuil megacity. Saint-Lambert and LeMoyne combined to become one borough called Saint-Lambert/LeMoyne. The former city of Longueuil was renamed Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

 borough.

The former city hall of Brossard, became the city hall for the new city of Longueuil.

On June 20, 2004, the former boroughs of Boucherville, Brossard
Brossard
Brossard is a suburban area, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, opposite the island and city of Montreal.Brossard is subdivided into many smaller sections. These sections are characterized by having street names that all begin with the same letter of the alphabet...

, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville and Saint-Lambert
Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

 voted to demerge
Municipal reorganization in Quebec
The most recent episode of municipal reorganization in Quebec, Canada, was undertaken in 2002 by the Parti Québécois Government of Quebec, headed by Premier Lucien Bouchard and his successor Bernard Landry....

 from Longueuil to reconstitute themselves as municipalities on January 1, 2006. The rest of the city stayed intact.

The departure of Saint-Lambert from the city Longueuil resulted in the immediate disbanding of the Saint-Lambert/LeMoyne borough. LeMoyne's small population and territory did not allowed it to become a borough of its own. In 2005, the population of LeMoyne was given the choice to pick a new borough between Vieux-Longueuil, Saint-Hubert and Greenfield Park. Vieux-Longueuil ended up being the winner and amalgamated LeMoyne into its borough on January 1, 2006.

Following the demergers, Longueuil relocated its city hall from Brossard to Saint-Hubert, where it is still located.

Since the 2002 municipal mergers, Longueuil has had three mayors. The first mayor was businessman Jacques Olivier who once served as Minister of Labour
Minister of Labour (Canada)
The Minister of Labour is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for setting national labour standards and federal labour dispute mechanisms...

 The second mayor of Longueuil was Claude Gladu
Claude Gladu
Claude Gladu is the mayor of the city of Longueuil, Quebec since January 1, 2006. His party, Parti Municipal de Longueuil won the municipal elections of Longueuil on November 6, 2005....

, who also happened to be mayor of the former city of Longueuil from 1994 to 2002. The current mayor is Caroline St-Hilaire
Caroline St-Hilaire
Caroline St-Hilaire is a Canadian politician, currently serving as Mayor of Longueuil under the banner of Action Longueuil as of 10 November 2009...

, a former member of the Canadian House of Commons
Canadian House of Commons
The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

.

The city's three remaining boroughs are Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

, Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

 and Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

. In total there are 26 city councillors
Longueuil City Council
The Longueuil City Council is the governing body for the city of Longueuil on Montreal's south shore, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada....

, including one borough mayor each.
Borough Components Population (2006) Borough Mayor City Councillors
Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

Former city of Greenfield Park 17,458 Mireille Carrière 3
Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

Former city of Saint-Hubert 78,715 Stéphane Desjardins 8
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Former cities of Lemoyne and Longueuil 138,179 Michel Desjardins 15

Mayors of the new city of Longueuil (2002-)
Mayor Term Began Term Ended
Jacques Olivier  2002 2005
Claude Gladu
Claude Gladu
Claude Gladu is the mayor of the city of Longueuil, Quebec since January 1, 2006. His party, Parti Municipal de Longueuil won the municipal elections of Longueuil on November 6, 2005....

 
2006 2009
Caroline St-Hilaire
Caroline St-Hilaire
Caroline St-Hilaire is a Canadian politician, currently serving as Mayor of Longueuil under the banner of Action Longueuil as of 10 November 2009...

 
2009 incumbent

Federal and provincial

Federal
Borough Other cities Federal Riding
Electoral district (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...

Member of Parliament
Canadian House of Commons
The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...

Political Party
Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

, Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Saint-Lambert
Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

Saint-Lambert
Saint-Lambert (electoral district)
Saint-Lambert is a federal electoral district in the Canadian province of Quebec. It has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997. Its population in 2006 was 94,541.-Geography:...

Sadia Groguhé
Sadia Groguhé
Sadia Groguhé is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Saint-Lambert as a member of the New Democratic Party....

New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert
Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert
Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988...

Djaouida Sellah
Djaouida Sellah
Djaouida Sellah, MD, is a Canadian politician, who was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 2011 election. She represents the electoral district of Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert as a member of the New Democratic Party....

New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...

Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Boucherville Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher
Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher
Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004...

Pierre Nantel
Pierre Nantel
Pierre Nantel is a Canadian Member of Parliament for the riding of Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher, first elected in the 2011 federal election. He is a member of the New Democratic Party. He succeeded Jean Dorion of the Bloc Québécois....

New Democratic Party
New Democratic Party
The New Democratic Party , commonly referred to as the NDP, is a federal social-democratic political party in Canada. The interim leader of the NDP is Nycole Turmel who was appointed to the position due to the illness of Jack Layton, who died on August 22, 2011. The provincial wings of the NDP in...


Provincial
Borough Other cities Provincial Riding
Canadian provincial electoral districts
Canadian provincial electoral districts have boundaries that are non-coterminous with those of the federal electoral districts, except for districts in the province of Ontario, where districts outside of Northern Ontario are coterminous....

Member of the National Assembly
National Assembly of Quebec
The National Assembly of Quebec is the legislative body of the Province of Quebec. The Lieutenant Governor and the National Assembly compose the Parliament of Quebec, which operates in a fashion similar to those of other British-style parliamentary systems.The National Assembly was formerly the...

Political Party
Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

, Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

Saint-Lambert
Saint-Lambert, Quebec
Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

Laporte
Laporte (electoral district)
Laporte is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The riding was named after former Liberal Minister Pierre Laporte who was kidnapped and killed by militants of the Front de libération du Québec during the October Crisis in 1970...

Nicole Ménard
Nicole Ménard
Nicole Ménard is a Quebec politician. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Laporte in the Montérégie region...

Quebec Liberal Party
Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

N/A Vachon
Vachon (electoral district)
Vachon is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in Longueuil and includes most of the borough of Saint-Hubert...

Camil Bouchard
Camil Bouchard
Camil Bouchard is a Quebec politician, teacher and psychology researcher. He was a Member of National Assembly of Quebec from 2003 to 2010, representing the riding of Vachon in Longueuil. He is a member of the Parti Québécois.He went to Université Laval and obtained a bachelor's and master's...

Parti Québécois
Parti Québécois
The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...

Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

N/A Marie-Victorin
Marie-Victorin (electoral district)
Marie-Victorin is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in Longueuil. It is bordered to the north by chemin de Chambly, to the east by Boulevard Jacques-Cartier, to the south by the Canadian National railway...

Bernard Drainville
Bernard Drainville
Bernard Drainville is a Quebec politician, television host and journalist. He is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Marie-Victorin in Longueuil and represents the Parti Québécois....

Parti Québécois
Parti Québécois
The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...

Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

N/A Taillon
Taillon
Taillon is a provincial electoral district in Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. The district is located in Longueuil and in the 1995 Quebec referendum it voted 61% for Quebec to separate...

Marie Malavoy
Marie Malavoy
Marie Malavoy is a Quebec politician and teacher. She is the current Member of National Assembly of Quebec for the riding of Taillon in the Montérégie region and represents the Parti Québécois....

Parti Québécois
Parti Québécois
The Parti Québécois is a centre-left political party that advocates national sovereignty for the province of Quebec and secession from Canada. The Party traditionally has support from the labour movement. Unlike many other social-democratic parties, its ties with the labour movement are informal...



Longueuil is the seat of the judicial district
Judicial districts of Quebec
The province of Quebec is divided into 36 judicial districts by the , R.S.Q., chapter D-11. Each district has a seat where the courthouse is located, although some have more than one courthouse, service point, or itinerant court location....

 of Longueuil.

Borough powers

The borough council is responsible for:
  • Fire prevention
  • Removal of household waste and residual materials
  • Funding of community
  • Social and local economic development agencies
  • Planning and management of parks and recreational
  • Cultural and sports facilities, organization of recreational sports and sociocultural activities
  • Maintaining local roads
  • Issuing permits
  • Public consultations for amendments to city planning bylaws
  • Public consultations and dissemination of information to the public
  • Land use planning and borough development.

List of former boroughs

  • Boucherville
  • Brossard
    Brossard
    Brossard is a suburban area, located on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, opposite the island and city of Montreal.Brossard is subdivided into many smaller sections. These sections are characterized by having street names that all begin with the same letter of the alphabet...

  • Saint-Lambert/LeMoyne
  • Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville

Economy

Although a large chunk of Longueuil's work force commute to Montreal, the city nevertheless offers many jobs in a diverse range of industries. Above all, Longueuil benefits from having low property value despite its close proximity to Montreal.

Longueuil is particularly strong in the aerospace
Aerospace
Aerospace comprises the atmosphere of Earth and surrounding space. Typically the term is used to refer to the industry that researches, designs, manufactures, operates, and maintains vehicles moving through air and space...

 industry. It is home to the headquarters of both Pratt & Whitney Canada
Pratt & Whitney Canada
Pratt & Whitney Canada is a Canadian aircraft engine manufacturer. PWC's headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, just outside Montreal. It is a division of the larger US-based Pratt & Whitney , itself a business unit of United Technologies...

 and Héroux-Devtek
Héroux-Devtek
Héroux-Devtek Inc. specializes in the design, development, manufacture and repair of aerospace and industrial products.HISTORY: MAJOR MILESTONES OF THE COMPANY...

, each employing thousands of workers. Also located in Longueuil is the headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency (John H. Chapman Space Center), adjacent to Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport. Pascan Aviation
Pascan Aviation
Pascan Aviation is a regional airline based in Saint-Hubert, Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It operates scheduled services to 15 destinations in Quebec and one in Labrador, as well as charter services. Its main base is Montréal/Saint-Hubert Airport and they run a FBO at the airport.- History :The...

 has its headquarters in Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

, Longueuil. Other companies based in Longueuil include Agropur
Agropur
Agropur is a Canadian Agricultural cooperative headquartered in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada.Founded in 1938, the Agropur cooperative is the Canadian dairy industry leader, with $3 billion in annualized sales...

.

In 2008, Canadian Business
Canadian Business
Canadian Business is the longest-publishing business magazine in Canada. It was founded in 1928 as The Commerce of the Nation, the organ of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. The magazine was renamed Canadian Business in 1933...

 ranked Longueuil as the 30th best place to do business in Canada.

Media

Newspapers:
  • Le Courrier du Sud
    Le Courrier du Sud
    Le Courrier du Sud is a free French language weekly tabloid newspaper based in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. The newspaper is distributed to 143 992 homes in the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. Le Courrier du Sud is owned by Quebecor Media, the same owners as the Montreal daily Le...

     (Longueuil)
  • Rive-Sud Express
    Rive-Sud Express
    Rive-Sud Express is a free French-language weekly tabloid newspaper based in Boucherville, Quebec, Canada. The newspaper is distributed to 145,000 homes in cities of Boucherville, Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert...

     (Longueuil, Saint-Lambert, Boucherville, Brossard)
  • Le Journal de Saint-Hubert (St. Hubert)
  • Le Magazine (Greenfield Park, LeMoyne and the city of St. Lambert
    Saint-Lambert, Quebec
    Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht...

    )


Radio
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...

:
  • CHAA-FM 103.3
    CHAA-FM
    CHAA-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Longueuil, Quebec, near Montreal.It broadcasts on 103.3 MHz using a directional antenna located on the tower of the Olympic Stadium with an average effective radiated power of 64 watts and a peak effective radiated power of 263 watts...



Television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

:
  • Télé Rive-Sud (TVRS)
    Canal Vox
    Canal Vox or simply VOX is the brand of community channels owned by Vidéotron, a division of Quebecor, many of which share common programs....


Sport


Club
Sport
League
Stadium/Arena


Le Collège Français de Longueuil
Le Collège Français de Longueuil
Longueuil Collège Français are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Longueuil, Quebec, and a member of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League. The Collège Français headquarters are in Longueuil, Quebec, while the team plays at Colisée Jean Béliveau.-History:...


Ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...


Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League
Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League
The Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec or Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League is a Hockey Quebec Junior "AAA" ice hockey league and is a member of Hockey Canada and the Canadian Junior Hockey League...


Colisée Jean Béliveau
Colisée Jean Béliveau
The Colisée Jean Béliveau is a multi-purpose arena built in 1968 in Longueuil, Quebec, and home to the ice hockey team of Le Collège Français de Longueuil, that play in the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League...





Longueuil Ducs
Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...


Ligue de Baseball Élite du Québec
Ligue de Baseball Élite du Québec
The Ligue de Baseball Élite du Québec is the top-level amateur summer baseball league in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is composed entirely of junior elite players - the best baseball players in the province under 22 years of age.-History:...


Parc Paul-Pratt



Greenfield Park Packers
Canadian football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...


Midget AAA
Parc Pierre Laporte



St. Hubert Rebelles
Canadian football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...


Midget AAA
Centre Rosanne-Laflamme



South Shore Monarx
Canadian football
Canadian football
Canadian football is a form of gridiron football played exclusively in Canada in which two teams of 12 players each compete for territorial control of a field of play long and wide attempting to advance a pointed prolate spheroid ball into the opposing team's scoring area...


Quebec Junior Football League
Quebec Junior Football League
The Quebec Junior Football League operated from 1970 to the present, as a successor to the Quebec Juvenile Football League. It began competition as a conference of the Canadian Junior Football League from which it eventually withdrew. Upon withdrawal from the CJFL, the QJFL incorporated teams from...


Centre Sportif Collège Édouard-Montpetit


Education


The city of Longueuil is served by several educational institutions. Both the Université de Montréal
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal is a public francophone research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It comprises thirteen faculties, more than sixty departments and two affiliated schools: the École Polytechnique and HEC Montréal...

 and Université de Sherbrooke
Université de Sherbrooke
The Université de Sherbrooke is a large university with campuses located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada and Longueuil, a suburb of Montreal approximately west of Sherbrooke. It is one of two universities, and the only French language university, in the Estrie region of Quebec.In 2007, the...

 maintain campuses in the Borough of Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

, and the following CEGEP
Cégep
CEGEP is an acronym for , which is literally translated as "College of General and Vocational Education" but commonly called "General and Vocational College" in circles not influenced by Quebec English. It refers to the public post-secondary education collegiate institutions exclusive to the...

s are located in Longueuil:
  • Collège Édouard-Montpetit
    Collège Édouard-Montpetit
    Collège Édouard-Montpetit is a francophone CEGEP in Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. Approximately 6700 students are enrolled in the Longueuil and St-Hubert campuses. The College of General and Vocational Education is affiliated with the ACCC, and CCAA.-History:...

    , Borough of Vieux-Longueuil
    Vieux-Longueuil
    Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

  • École nationale d'aérotechnique, Borough of Saint-Hubert
    Saint-Hubert, Quebec
    Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...





Technical and Professional Colleges


Borough of Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

  • Pierre-Dupuy Professional Formation Centre
  • Collège Info-Technique

Secondary schools

Secondary schools in Longueuil
School Borough Sector School Board
Centennial Regional High School
Centennial Regional High School
Centennial Regional High School is a co-ed comprehensive public high school located in the Greenfield Park borough of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, a suburb of Montreal. It was built in 1967 and named to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Canada's confederation. However, it only opened to...

Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

Anglophone Riverside School Board
Riverside School Board
The Riverside School Board is an English-language school board in the province of Quebec and provides educational services and programs to all students who have a certificate of eligibility for English education in Quebec. They are responsible for anglophone public schools on Montreal's South Shore...

Collège Charles-LeMoyne Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Francophone Private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

Collège Français Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Francophone Private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

Collège Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Francophone Private school
Private school
Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

École secondaire André-Laurendeau Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

Francophone Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin is a Canadian school board operating in the province of Quebec and serving the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. It is a French-language school board.CSMV was created on July 1, 1998 when school boards were reconfigured based on language...

École secondaire Gérard-Filion Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Francophone Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin is a Canadian school board operating in the province of Quebec and serving the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. It is a French-language school board.CSMV was created on July 1, 1998 when school boards were reconfigured based on language...

École secondaire Internationale St-Edmond Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

Francophone Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin is a Canadian school board operating in the province of Quebec and serving the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. It is a French-language school board.CSMV was created on July 1, 1998 when school boards were reconfigured based on language...

École secondaire Jacques-Rousseau Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Francophone Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin is a Canadian school board operating in the province of Quebec and serving the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. It is a French-language school board.CSMV was created on July 1, 1998 when school boards were reconfigured based on language...

École secondaire Mgr-A.M.-Parent Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

Francophone Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin is a Canadian school board operating in the province of Quebec and serving the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. It is a French-language school board.CSMV was created on July 1, 1998 when school boards were reconfigured based on language...

École secondaire Participative l'Agora Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

Francophone Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin is a Canadian school board operating in the province of Quebec and serving the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. It is a French-language school board.CSMV was created on July 1, 1998 when school boards were reconfigured based on language...

École secondaire St-Jean-Baptiste Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

Francophone Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin
Commission scolaire Marie-Victorin is a Canadian school board operating in the province of Quebec and serving the cities of Longueuil , Brossard and Saint-Lambert. It is a French-language school board.CSMV was created on July 1, 1998 when school boards were reconfigured based on language...

Heritage Regional High School
Heritage Regional High School
Heritage Regional High School is a public secondary school located in Saint-Hubert, Quebec. Prior to being known as Heritage, the school was known as MacDonald-Cartier High School.-H.R.T.V:...

Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

Anglophone Riverside School Board
Riverside School Board
The Riverside School Board is an English-language school board in the province of Quebec and provides educational services and programs to all students who have a certificate of eligibility for English education in Quebec. They are responsible for anglophone public schools on Montreal's South Shore...


Infrastructure

Commuting patterns

According to the 2006 Census, about 39,485 city residents (17.2% of the total population) commute to work in Montreal on a daily basis, while only 38,090 residents (16.6%) work in the city itself. A further 6,915 residents (3.0%) work in Boucherville every day, 4,775 (2.1%) work in Brossard, 2,795 (1.2%) in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, and 1,815 (0.8%) work in Saint-Lambert, the four other constituent cities of the Longueuil agglomeration.

By contrast only 8,845 people commute from Montreal to work in Longueuil every day, while 4,080 people commute from Brossard to work in Longueuil, 2,940 people commute from Boucherville, 2,090 from Sainte-Julie, 1,825 from Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 1,815 from Chambly, and 1,810 from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Roads

The Saint Lawrence River between the Island of Montreal
Island of Montreal
The Island of Montreal , in extreme southwestern Quebec, Canada, is located at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers. It is separated from Île Jésus by the Rivière des Prairies....

 and the south shore is traversed by only five automobile crossings (the Honoré-Mercier, Champlain, Victoria, and Jacques-Cartier bridges and the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine tunnel), and they are severely congested. (See the list of bridges in Montreal.)

  • Quebec Autoroutes:
    • Autoroute 20
      Quebec Autoroute 20
      Autoroute 20 is a major Quebec Autoroute, following the Saint Lawrence River through one of the more densely-populated parts of Canada, and is part of the Trans-Canada Highway. At , it is the longest Autoroute in Quebec...

    • Autoroute 30
      Quebec Autoroute 30
      Autoroute 30 is a superhighway in Quebec, Canada.There are three segments currently open for travel:...


  • Quebec Provincial Highways:
    • Route 112
      Quebec route 112
      Route 112 is a busy east/west highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Its eastern terminus is in Frampton at the junction of Route 275, and the western terminus is in Downtown Montreal , after crossing the Victoria Bridge...

    • Route 116
      Quebec route 116
      Route 116 is an east/west highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. Until the 1970s it was known as Route 9. Its eastern terminus is in Lévis at the junction of Route 132, and the western terminus is at the junction of Route 134 in Lemoyne part of a concurrency with...

    • Route 132
      Quebec route 132
      Route 132 is the longest highway in Quebec. It follows the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River from the border with the state of New York in the hamlet of Dundee , west of Montreal to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and circles the Gaspé Peninsula...

    • Route 134
      Quebec route 134
      Route 134 is a highway in the province of Quebec, running from Candiac on the South Shore of the Saint Lawrence River to Montreal, crossing the river on Jacques Cartier Bridge. On the South Shore, Route 134 is named Taschereau Boulevard , after the prominent Quebec family that included former...


  • Bridge
    Bridge
    A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle...

    s/Tunnels:
    • Jacques Cartier Bridge
      Jacques Cartier Bridge
      The Jacques Cartier Bridge is a steel truss cantilever bridge crossing the Saint Lawrence River from Montreal Island, Montreal, Quebec to the south shore at Longueuil, Quebec, Canada...

    • Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel.

  • Boulevards
    Boulevards
    Boulevards is a network of city guides on the Internet established in 1994 by Boulevards New Media Inc., an early digital media pioneer. It preceded other city guide networks such as Citysearch and Microsoft's now-defunct Sidewalk.com product, which launched under a similarly metaphorical brand and...

    • Taschereau Boulevard
      Taschereau Boulevard
      Taschereau Boulevard is a major suburban boulevard located on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a section of Quebec Route 134 and runs from Longueuil to Candiac . It is named after the prominent Quebec family that included former premier Louis-Alexandre Taschereau. At , it is one...

    • Cousineau Boulevard
    • Grande Allée Boulevard
    • Curé Poirier Boulevard
    • Churchill Boulevard
    • Jacques Cartier Boulevard
    • Roland Therrien Boulevard

  • Street
    Street
    A street is a paved public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, but is more often paved with a hard, durable...

    s, Roads and Avenues
    Avenue (landscape)
    __notoc__In landscaping, an avenue or allée is traditionally a straight route with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each, which is used, as its French source venir indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature...

    • Chambly Road
    • St. Charles Street
    • St. Helene Street
    • St. Laurent Street

Public transportation

The Réseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL)
Réseau de transport de Longueuil
Réseau de transport de Longueuil is a public transit carrier in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada and nearby communities on the South Shore of Montreal...

 provides bus service in Longueuil. There are 71 bus routes and 13 shared taxi routes serving 117,804 passengers per day, and 30,970,996 passengers annually. Almost all bus lines of the RTL terminate at the Longueuil Bus Terminus
Terminus Longueuil (AMT)
Terminus Longueuil, an AMT bus terminus part of the Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke Metro complex . There are 1838 park and ride spaces nearby...

. Many buses terminating at the other main bus terminus, Brossard-Panama
Terminus Brossard-Panama (AMT)
Terminus Brossard-Panama is an AMT bus terminus in Brossard, Quebec, Canada. It is served by buses of the Réseau de transport de Longueuil as well as by routes of the CIT Le Richelain and CIT Roussillon. Inaugurated in the fall of 1991, it is located at the intersection of Panama Street and...

, cross the Champlain Bridge
Champlain Bridge (Montreal)
The Champlain Bridge is a steel truss cantilever bridge with approach viaducts constructed of prestressed concrete beams supporting a prestressed concrete deck paved with asphalt...

 to arrive at the Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville (AMT)
Terminus Centre-Ville is a bus terminus located within 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montreal. It is multimodal with the Bonaventure metro station on the Orange Line, the Central Station, the Lucien-L'Allier train station as well as the Lucien-L'Allier metro station...

 in downtown Montreal (under the 1000 de la Gauchetière
1000 de La Gauchetière
1000 de la Gauchetière is a skyscraper in the Canadian city of Montreal and is the tallest building in Montreal. It is named for its address at 1000 De la Gauchetière Street West in the city's downtown. It rises to the maximum height approved by the city at 205 m and 51 floors...

 office tower, at Bonaventure metro
Bonaventure (Montreal Metro)
Bonaventure is a station on the Orange Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the borough of Ville-Marie in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada....

).

The city is also served by the Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke
Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke (Montreal Metro)
Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke is a station at the southern terminus of the Yellow Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system, operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada....

 metro
Montreal Metro
The Montreal Metro is a rubber-tired metro system, and the main form of public transportation underground in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada....

 station, adjacent to the Longueuil bus terminus. The station connects to downtown Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 via the yellow line
Line 4 Yellow (Montreal Metro)
The Yellow line is one of the metro's four routes operating in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was popular when it opened for service because it connected Montreal's city centre with the Expo 67 exhibition and La Ronde on Île-Sainte-Hélène. Line 4 has three stations, and travels under the St....

 of the metro. The Agence métropolitaine de transport
Agence métropolitaine de transport
The Agence métropolitaine de transport is the umbrella organization that plans, integrates, and coordinates public transportation services across Canada's Greater Montreal Region, including the Island of Montreal, Laval , and communities along both the North Shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles...

 (AMT) runs the Mont-Saint-Hilaire commuter train line also serves the south shore. The only commuter train station in the city of Longueuil is Saint-Hubert Station
Saint-Hubert (AMT)
Saint-Hubert Station is a railway station located in Saint-Hubert borough of Longueuil), Quebec, Canada.It is served by commuter trains from the Agence métropolitaine de transport. It is part of the Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line.-AMT:-External links:*...

. Until the mid-1950s, Longueuil was served by interurban streetcars operated by the Montreal and Southern Counties Railway
Montreal and Southern Counties Railway
The Montreal and Southern Counties Railway Company was an interurban streetcar line that ran between Montreal and Granby until 1956. A second branch served the city of Longueuil....

.

Longueuil also has a small airport, Saint-Hubert Airport. It is one of Canada's most important general aviation
General aviation
General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...

 airports, ranked 12th busiest airport by aircraft movements.

Hospitals

The city is served by two hospitals. The Charles-LeMoyne Hospital in the borough of Greenfield Park
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greenfield Park is a borough of the city of Longueuil, Quebec, Canada. It covers an area of , with a population of 17,491 as of December 2004. Greenfield Park is the only borough of Longueuil that has an officially bilingual status. It is primarily a post-war suburban area. Like the other two...

 is the main hospital for Greenfield Park and Saint-Hubert
Saint-Hubert, Quebec
Saint-Hubert is a borough in the city of Longueuil, located in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It had been a separate city prior to January 1, 2002, when it along with several other neighbouring south shore municipalities were merged into Longueuil. According to the Quebec Statistics...

. The Pierre-Boucher Hospital is the main hospital for the borough of Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil
Vieux-Longueuil is the largest borough in the city of Longueuil.From 2002 to 2006, Vieux-Longueuil borough stood for what used to be the city of Longueuil from 1969 to 2002...

.

Partner cities

Whitby, Ontario
Whitby, Ontario
Whitby is a town in Durham Region. Whitby is located in Southern Ontario east of Toronto on the north shore of Lake Ontario, and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region...

  Lafayette
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...

, Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

, United States
United States
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