Mount Royal Mont-Royal | |
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| Town of Mount Royal Ville de Mont-Royal | |
 Connaught Park | |
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 Location on the Island of Montreal | |
  Mount Royal Location in southern Quebec | |
| Coordinates:45°30′58″N73°38′35″W / 45.51611°N 73.64306°W /45.51611; -73.64306[3] | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| Region | Montreal |
| RCM | None |
| Founded | 1912 |
| Constituted | January 1, 2006 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Peter J. Malouf |
| • Federal riding | Mount Royal |
| • Prov. riding | Mont-Royal–Outremont |
| Area | |
| • Land | 7.55 km2 (2.92 sq mi) |
| Population (2021)[4] | |
• Total | 20,953 |
| • Density | 2,776.7/km2 (7,192/sq mi) |
| • Pop. 2016-2021 |  3.3% |
| • Dwellings | 8,192 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 514 and 438 |
Highways  A-15 (TCH) A-40 (TCH) |  A-520 |
| Website | www |
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Mount Royal (French:Mont-Royal[mɔ̃ʁwajal]ⓘ, officiallyTown of Mount Royal, Ville Mont-Royal, abbreviatedTMR,French:VMR) is an affluenton-island suburban town located on the northwest side of the eponymousMount Royal, northwest ofDowntown Montreal, on theIsland of Montreal in southwesternQuebec,Canada. It is completely surrounded by the city ofMontreal. The population was 20,953 as of the2021 Canadian census.[4] In 2008, most of the Town of Mount Royal was designated aNational Historic Site of Canada, as a "[remarkable] synthesis of urban renewal movements of the early 20th century, reflecting the influence of the City Beautiful, Garden City and Garden Suburb movements".[6] The town celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2012.
Town of Mount Royal, or TMR, was founded in 1912. It was created at the initiative of theCanadian Northern Railway as a means of generating funds for the tunnel to be built under the mountain, which would connect the railway to downtown Montreal.[7] The town was designed byFrederick Todd, a planner who was heavily influenced by the likes of SirEbenezer Howard and incorporated many aspects of theGarden City Movement as well some elements of the earlierCity Beautiful movement into his design.[8] The plan was to build amodel city at the foot ofMount Royal. The company bought 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) of farmland, and then built arail tunnel under Mount Royal connecting their land to downtown Montreal. The profits from the venture helped finance the development of Canadian Northern's transcontinental railroad, which eventually became a significant constituent of the Canadian National Railway system. The town was designed by Canadian Northern's chief engineer,Henry Wicksteed, based loosely onWashington, D.C.
The garden city's coat of arms is composed of several significant elements:[9]
One notable feature of the town is the naming of some of its streets, and also its occasionally idiosyncratic numbering system. Some streets which pass through the town may thus bear two names (in whichever language). For example,Jean Talon Street, a large east–west thoroughfare crossing Montreal for kilometres (miles), goes a few hundred metres (yards) through TMR under the name of Dresden Avenue, only to recover its Montreal name on the other side of the town. This situation has been recently addressed by putting the two names on the street signs. On these few hundred metres (yards), TMR uses a house civic numbering totally different from that of Montreal on either side. This sort of change in the numbering system also occurs on smaller streets shared by both Montreal and TMR (for example, Trenton, Lockhart and Brookfield avenues, where the TMR numbering system decreases from East to West, only to jump from 2 to 2400 on the few metres (yards) of the street that still belong to Montreal.
In the beginning, the Town was a small farming community, known for its melons. The Daoust family farm grew the celebratedMontreal melon, also called the Montreal nutmeg melon. Green-fleshed and uniquely flavourful, the melons weighed up to 9 or 11 kg (20 or 25 lb). So special was the Montreal melon that it was exported to New York, Chicago and Boston, where, in 1921, people paid as much as $1.50 a slice to taste it. Farming was abandoned over the years, with the gradual urbanization of the Town.[10]
On January 1, 2002, as part of the2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal, it was merged intoMontreal and became a borough. However, after achange of government and a2004 referendum, it was re-constituted as an independent town on January 1, 2006.
Two main thoroughfares, Laird Boulevard and Graham Boulevard, cut across the borough diagonally and meet at Connaught Park, agreen space located in the centre.Mount Royal Train Station, acommuter train station on theExoDeux-Montagnes line is located to the east of this park. This line is now undergoing construction to upgrade it for the newREM network. Trains going through theMount Royal Tunnel link the station to downtown Montreal in eight minutes. Both boulevards end atJean Talon Street and close to thehighway.
TMR is surrounded on three sides by ahighway, afence and a rail line.
The highway is Metropolitan Boulevard, a major constituent ofAutoroute 40. It was built as an elevated highway throughout, except when it passes through TMR (between Sainte Croix Avenue and L'Acadie Boulevard), since the Town council requested that it be built on the ground, in order to separate the town from the industrial area to the north.
A fence runs along the eastern border withPark Extension at L'Acadie Boulevard, a six lane thoroughfare. The stated purpose of the fence is to prevent children and house pets from running into the busy thoroughfare but some have contended that it was built to keep residents of the working-class Park Extension neighbourhood out of the town.[11]
The rail line is the last portion ofCanadian Pacific's Adirondack subdivision. It originally ran through the northern part of the district ofCôte-des-Neiges. However, when the town became part of Montreal on Jan 1, 2002, the part ofCôte-des-Neiges north of rail line was incorporated into the Mount Royal borough. When the town demerged on Jan 1, 2006 this part, known as Glenmount, reverted to Côte-des-Neiges.
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1921 | 160 | — |
| 1931 | 2,174 | +1258.8% |
| 1941 | 4,888 | +124.8% |
| 1951 | 11,352 | +132.2% |
| 1956 | 16,990 | +49.7% |
| 1961 | 21,182 | +24.7% |
| 1966 | 21,845 | +3.1% |
| 1971 | 21,560 | −1.3% |
| 1976 | 20,514 | −4.9% |
| 1981 | 19,247 | −6.2% |
| 1986 | 18,350 | −4.7% |
| 1991 | 18,212 | −0.8% |
| 1996 | 18,282 | +0.4% |
| 2001 | 18,682 | +2.2% |
| 2006 | 18,933 | +1.3% |
| 2011 | 19,503 | +3.0% |
| 2016 | 20,276 | +4.0% |
| 2021 | 20,953 | +3.3% |
| Source: Statistics Canada | ||
According to theOffice québécois de la langue française, Mont-Royal has been officially recognized as a bilingual municipality[12] since 2005-11-02.[13]
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Mont-Royal had a population of20,953 living in7,732 of its8,192 total private dwellings, a change of3.3% from its 2016 population of20,276. With a land area of 7.55 km2 (2.92 sq mi), it had a population density of2,775.2/km2 (7,187.8/sq mi) in 2021.[14]
| Language | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| French | 8,930 | 43% |
| English | 5,720 | 28% |
| Other languages | 4,110 | 20% |
| Language | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| French | 8,120 | 39% |
| English | 3,595 | 17% |
| Other languages | 7,235 | 35% |
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| Not a visible minority | 14,000 | 68% |
| Visible minorities | 6,695 | 32% |
Mayor Peter J. Malouf[16] was elected 7 November 2021, defeating former municipal councillor Michelle Setlakwe, the first mayoral election in 16 years. Voter Participation was 48.7%. Despite the COVID pandemic, 6,779 residents voted by mail or in person.[17]
In 2020, TMR was divided from six into eight electoral districts to reflect its growing population of 22,000 residents.[18] The Town mayor sits on the Agglomeration Council of Montreal.[19]
2021-25 Municipal Council (100% new slate of elected officials):[20]
The first mayor of the Town of Mount-Royal was Thomas S. Darling, elected in 1913.[22]
The entire borough is located within the federal riding ofMount Royal, whose best-known MP for nearly 20 years wasPierre Trudeau, and within the smaller provincial electoral district of Mount Royal. The Mount Royal riding has been a Liberal stronghold since 1940.
The riding encompasses Côte St. Luc, Hampstead, Côte des Neiges and the Town of Mount Royal.[23]Since 2015, Mr. Anthony Housefather has served as Member of The House of Commons - Mount Royal[24]
Mount Royal shares its provincial territory withOutremont since 2018,[25] making it theMont-Royal–Outremont provincial electoral district. SinceOctober 2022, the riding is represented by LiberalMichelle Setlakwe that replaced the long time MPPierre Arcand.[26][27]
TheCommission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys (CSMB) operates Francophone public schools.[28]
Secondary schools:
Primary schools:
TheEnglish Montreal School Board (EMSB) operates Anglophone public schools in the town.
The Town has its own library,Reginald J. P. Dawson Library, which is independent from the Montreal Library Network.
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