Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec
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Vaudreuil-Dorion is a city in southwestern Quebec in the County of Vaudreuil-Soulanges. The result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion, the city is located just off the western tip of the Island of Montreal, and is situated on the south shores of the Lake of Two Mountains.
Vaudreuil-Dorion is the largest municipality in the county, and is currently experiencing high population growth as farmland is converted to residential areas and commercial developments.
The city is the point of intersection for Canada's two busiest highways: Highway 401/Highway 20 (connecting the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor) and the Trans-Canada Highway.
According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:
- Population: 21 176 (as of 2005)
- % Change (1996 – 2001): 7.9
- Dwellings: 8,078
- Area (km²): 72.47
- Density (persons per km²): 274.9
[edit] History
On November 23, 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 will later become governor of New France. In 1725, the region had only 38 inhabitants. It was only about 1742, when people began to be interested in the region, that Vaudreuil's population rose. There were 381 people living in Vaudreuil in 1765. It is with the creation of the Grand Trunk railway that people began to live in Dorion, which was called "Vaudreuil Station". Dorion became a village in 1891. Vaudreuil and Dorion merged in 1994, becoming the actual city of "Vaudreuil-Dorion".
[edit] Communities
- Dorion
- L'Anse Vaudreuil
- Pointe-Cavagnal
- Vaudreuil
| North: L'Île-Cadieux, Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac | ||
| West: Rigaud, Hudson, Saint-Lazare |
Vaudreuil-Dorion |
East: Montreal, Pincourt, Ville-Ile-Perrot, Notre-Dame-de-L'Ile-Perrot, Terrasse-Vaudreuil |
| South: Les Cèdres, Pointe-des-Cascades |
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