L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève | |
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 Église Sainte-Geneviève. | |
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 Location of L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève on Island of Montreal. (Gray areas indicate demerged municipalities). | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Montréal |
| Established | January 01, 2006 |
| Electoral Districts Federal | Pierrefonds—Dollard Lac-Saint-Louis |
| Provincial | Nelligan |
| Government | |
| • Type | Borough |
| • Mayor | Doug Hurley |
| • FederalMPs | Sameer Zuberi(LPC) Francis Scarpaleggia(LPC) |
| • QuebecMNA | Monsef Derraji(PLQ) |
| Area | |
| • Land | 23.6 km2 (9.1 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 18,413 |
| • Density | 780.2/km2 (2,021/sq mi) |
| • Dwellings | 6,940 |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area code(s) | (514) and (438) |
| Website | https://montreal.ca/lile-bizard-sainte-genevieve |
L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève (French pronunciation:[lilbizaʁsɛ̃tʒənvjɛv]) is aborough (arrondissement) of the city ofMontreal.
On 24 October 1678, the government ofLouis de Buade de Frontenac granted Île Bizard, then named Île Bonaventure as aseigniory toJacques Bizard. This was the first concession on theWest Island of Montreal. The village ofSainte-Geneviève was born in the early eighteenth century. Antoine Faucon, father of Saint-Sulpice, participated in the construction of the first church in the village's history. The Municipality of the Village of Sainte-Geneviève was created in 1859.
During the first half of the twentieth century, farmers in Île Bizard and Sainte-Geneviève were then oriented toward gardening. The territory was thus transformed into a garden of Montreal. In 1959, it was incorporated as Ville Sainte-Geneviève.
From the late 1950s, the creation of two major golf courses opened the door to massive sales of land and the abandonment of agriculture, which had become unprofitable. In 1959, theRoyal Montreal Golf Club opened, and has since hosted several professional golf tournaments.
Over the last fifty years, urbanization has increased and the population has increased tenfold, especially after the opening ofAutoroute 40 that connected the western, central and eastern parts of Montreal.
On January 1, 2002, the municipalities of L'Île-Bizard, Sainte-Geneviève, andSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue weremerged into the city of Montreal as the borough ofL'Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève—Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. When Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue voted to demerge from Montreal, the borough was reorganized into its present form on January 1, 2006.
The borough is composed of the former municipalities ofL'Île-Bizard andSainte-Geneviève. The first is a separate island, the largest of the City of Montreal besides the Island of Montreal itself, and the second is a small area on the Island of Montreal. Sainte-Geneviève has a land border with the borough ofPierrefonds-Roxboro.
The borough has a land area of 23.6 km2 and a population of 18,413, making it the smallest of Montreal's nineteen boroughs in population.
| District | Position | Name | Party | |
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| — | Borough mayor Montreal city councillor | Doug Hurley | Ensemble Montréal | |
| Denis-Benjamin-Viger | Borough councillor | Alain Wilson | Ensemble Montréal | |
| Jacques-Bizard | Borough councillor | Richard Bélanger | Ensemble Montréal | |
| Pierre-Foretier | Borough councillor | Danielle Myrand | Ensemble Montréal | |
| Sainte-Geneviève | Borough councillor | Suzanne Marceau | Ensemble Montréal |
Part of Sainte-Geneviève lies within the federal riding ofLac-Saint-Louis; Île Bizard and the other half of Sainte-Geneviève lie within the riding ofPierrefonds—Dollard.
Provincially, the borough lies in the electoral district ofNelligan.
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| Year | Pop. | ±% |
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| 1966 | 5,233 | — |
| 1971 | 5,800 | +10.8% |
| 1976 | 6,970 | +20.2% |
| 1981 | 9,131 | +31.0% |
| 1986 | 11,123 | +21.8% |
| 1991 | 14,549 | +30.8% |
| 1996 | 16,377 | +12.6% |
| 2001 | 17,139 | +4.7% |
| 2006 | 17,590 | +2.6% |
| 2011 | 18,097 | +2.9% |
| 2016 | 18,413 | +1.7% |
| Language | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| French | 8,785 | 53% |
| English | 5,735 | 34% |
| Other languages | 2,905 | 13% |
| Language | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| French | 8,760 | 51% |
| English | 4,090 | 24% |
| Other languages | 4,235 | 25% |
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| Not a visible minority | 13,885 | 78.1% |
| Visible minorities | 3,900 | 21.9% |
Sainte-Geneviève and Île Bizard are connected by the Jacques Bizard Bridge. Île Bizard contains part of theCap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park as well as theBoisé de l'Île Bizard Nature Park. Sainte-Geneviève's features include theCégep Gérald-Godin. Plans have been advanced in the past to cross Île Bizard with an autoroute as part of a beltway around Montreal, but these have so far come to nothing mainly out of concern for the island's nature areas.
Pierre Bouvier fromSimple Plan was from there.Île Bizard have also produced the francophone musical groupsExterio andKamakazi
TheCentre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys operates Francophone public schools, but were previously operated by theCommission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys until June 15, 2020. The change was a result of a law passed by the Quebec government that changed the school board system fromdenominational tolinguistic.[5]
Primary schools include:
TheLester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) operates Anglophone public schools in the area.
TheMontreal Public Libraries Network operates the Île-Bizard library.[6]
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