Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | |
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| City of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue | |
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| Motto: Omnia per laborem et fidem (All through work and faith) | |
 Location on the Island of Montreal | |
  Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Location in southern Quebec. | |
| Coordinates:45°24′14″N73°57′09″W / 45.40389°N 73.95250°W /45.40389; -73.95250[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Montreal |
| RCM | None |
| Founded | 1703 |
| Constituted | January 1, 2006 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Paola Hawa |
| • Federal riding | Lac-Saint-Louis |
| • Prov. riding | Jacques-Cartier |
| Area | |
• Total | 11.18 km2 (4.32 sq mi) |
| • Land | 10.46 km2 (4.04 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 5,027 |
| • Density | 480.8/km2 (1,245/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2016-2021 |  1.4% |
| • Dwellings | 2,304 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| Postal code(s) | |
| Area codes | 514 and 438 |
Highways A-20 |   A-40 (TCH) |
| Website | ville |
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (/səntændəbɛlvjuː/,French pronunciation:[sɛ̃tandəbɛlvy]) is anon-island suburb located at the western tip of theIsland of Montreal in southwesternQuebec, Canada. It is the second oldest community in Montreal'sWest Island, having been founded as a parish in 1703. The oldest,Dorval, was founded in 1667.
Points of interest include theSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal (aNational Historic Site of Canada), the Sainte-Anne Veterans' Hospital, theMorgan Arboretum, and the L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park. Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is also home toJohn Abbott College andMcGill University'sMacdonald Campus, which includes theJ. S. Marshall Radar Observatory and theCanadian Aviation Heritage Centre as well as about 2 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi) of farmland which separates the small town from neighbouringBaie-d'Urfé.
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue was established on a location once known and frequented by both theAlgonquin andIroquois peoples. Situated between two important lakes (Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Lac Saint Louis) and near the confluence of two important rivers (the Saint Lawrence River and the Ottawa River) both nations recognized its natural strategic advantages and had names for the place. The oral records show that it was named “Tiotenactokte” by the Algonquin, which means "place of the last encampments" and that the Iroquois called it “Skanawetsy” meaning "white waters, after the rapids".
In 1663, the Saint-Louis Mission was founded in the west end of Montreal Island at Pointe-Caron (site of the present-dayBaie-d'Urfé yacht club), and was led byFrançois-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé. At that time, the mission included the entire area from the tip of Montreal Island to Pointe-Claire, Île Perrot, Soulanges, Vaudreuil, and Île aux Tourtes.[5]
In 1672, KingLouis XIV of France granted fiefdoms bordering on Lake of Two Mountains and Lake Saint-Louis to Louis de Berthé, Lord of Chailly, and to his brother Gabriel, Lord of La Joubardière. One of these adjacent fiefdoms was called Bellevue, due to its good views to the east and west. In 1677, the Parish of Saint-Louis-du-Bout-de-l'Île, sometimes also called Saint-Louis-du-Haut-de-l'Île, was founded. Jean de Lalonde was the first church warden. One September 30, 1687, Lalonde and four other parishioners were killed in a skirmish with the Iroquois.[6] In 1703, the parish was closed and its registers moved toLachine because of the constant threat from theIroquois.[1][5]
Around 1712,René-Charles de Breslay (1658–1735), local parish priest from 1703 to 1719, got caught in a fierce snowstorm. He fell from his horse, broke his leg on the ice, and lost the horse. Breslay was allegedly saved through the intervention bySaint Anne, after which he built a chapel dedicated to her at the westernmost point of Montreal Island next toFort Senneville and Tourtes Island (Île aux Tourtes). Two years later, the parish was reestablished and took the name Sainte-Anne-du-Bout-de-l'Île.[1][5]
From the early 1800s the town became a place of literary pilgrimage afterThomas Moore the famous Irish composer wrote one of his most celebrated worksCanadian Boat Song here.
In 1835, the local post office opened. In 1843, theSainte-Anne Canal was completed, resulting in a large number of travellers and merchants passing through the village. Another impetus to its development came a few years later in 1854, when theGrand Trunk Railway was built through the area, followed by theCanadian Pacific Railway in 1887.
In 1845, the place was first incorporated as the Municipality of Bout-de-l'Isle. This was abolished two years later, but in 1855, it was reestablished as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Anne-en-l'Isle-de-Montréal. In 1878, the main settlement was incorporated as a separate village municipality, and the parish municipality was renamed to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue that same year. The village municipality changed its status to town (ville) on January 12, 1895.[1]
The early 20th century saw several developments in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue: theMacdonald College (affiliated to theMcGill University) was established in 1907; the Federal Government builtSte. Anne's Veteran Hospital in 1917; theGalipeault Bridge was built in 1924 and doubled in 1964, linking Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue withÎle Perrot.[5] One of Canada's earliestGarden City experiments was undertaken in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue by John James Harpell, an industrialist, who around 1918 developed the 10 acres (4.0 ha) neighbourhood of Gardenvale.[7][8] The neighbourhood was granted its own post office in 1920.[9]
In 1911, the parish municipality lost part of its territory whenBaie-d'Urfé became a separate municipality. In 1964, the town of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue annexed the parish municipality.
On January 1, 2002, as part of the2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue was merged into the city ofMontreal and became part of the borough ofL'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève–Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue. However, after achange of government and a2004 referendum, it was re-constituted as an independent city on January 1, 2006.
| Climate data for Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue (1971–2000) | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 11.0 (51.8) | 14.0 (57.2) | 23.5 (74.3) | 31.0 (87.8) | 32.2 (90.0) | 35.4 (95.7) | 34.5 (94.1) | 35.0 (95.0) | 32.7 (90.9) | 27.2 (81.0) | 23.0 (73.4) | 15.7 (60.3) | 35.4 (95.7) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −5.7 (21.7) | −4.0 (24.8) | 1.9 (35.4) | 10.7 (51.3) | 18.6 (65.5) | 23.4 (74.1) | 26.2 (79.2) | 24.8 (76.6) | 19.5 (67.1) | 12.4 (54.3) | 5.1 (41.2) | −2.7 (27.1) | 10.9 (51.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −10.4 (13.3) | −8.6 (16.5) | −2.6 (27.3) | 5.9 (42.6) | 13.2 (55.8) | 18.1 (64.6) | 21.0 (69.8) | 19.8 (67.6) | 14.6 (58.3) | 8.1 (46.6) | 1.7 (35.1) | −7.0 (19.4) | 6.1 (43.1) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −15.0 (5.0) | −13.2 (8.2) | −7.0 (19.4) | 1.0 (33.8) | 7.7 (45.9) | 12.9 (55.2) | 15.7 (60.3) | 14.7 (58.5) | 9.7 (49.5) | 3.8 (38.8) | −1.8 (28.8) | −11.2 (11.8) | 1.4 (34.6) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −36.0 (−32.8) | −35.0 (−31.0) | −28.3 (−18.9) | −13.3 (8.1) | −3.9 (25.0) | 0 (32) | 5.5 (41.9) | 4.4 (39.9) | −3.5 (25.7) | −6.7 (19.9) | −17.8 (0.0) | −33.0 (−27.4) | −36.0 (−32.8) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 67.8 (2.67) | 58.4 (2.30) | 71.4 (2.81) | 69.6 (2.74) | 71.4 (2.81) | 88.6 (3.49) | 93.6 (3.69) | 104.2 (4.10) | 96.0 (3.78) | 77.2 (3.04) | 86.4 (3.40) | 78.2 (3.08) | 962.8 (37.91) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 23.1 (0.91) | 20.0 (0.79) | 39.9 (1.57) | 59.7 (2.35) | 71.2 (2.80) | 88.6 (3.49) | 93.6 (3.69) | 104.2 (4.10) | 96.0 (3.78) | 76.3 (3.00) | 64.2 (2.53) | 31.0 (1.22) | 767.8 (30.23) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 44.5 (17.5) | 37.9 (14.9) | 30.5 (12.0) | 9.5 (3.7) | 0.2 (0.1) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0.9 (0.4) | 22.2 (8.7) | 45.4 (17.9) | 191.1 (75.2) |
| Average precipitation days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 13.9 | 11.1 | 11.7 | 11.5 | 13.9 | 13.1 | 12.7 | 12.9 | 13.1 | 13.2 | 13.7 | 14.8 | 155.6 |
| Average rainy days(≥ 0.2 mm) | 3.0 | 2.8 | 6.3 | 10.0 | 13.9 | 13.1 | 12.7 | 12.9 | 13.1 | 12.9 | 10.0 | 4.1 | 114.8 |
| Average snowy days(≥ 0.2 cm) | 11.2 | 8.9 | 6.1 | 1.9 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.43 | 4.6 | 11.3 | 44.48 |
| Mean monthlysunshine hours | 102.4 | 126.8 | 155.8 | 181.2 | 229.5 | 245.7 | 277.7 | 238.3 | 172.0 | 131.6 | 83.0 | 80.7 | 2,024.7 |
| Source:Environment Canada[10] | |||||||||||||
In the2021 Census of Population conducted byStatistics Canada, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue had a population of5,027 living in2,108 of its2,304 total private dwellings, a change of1.4% from its 2016 population of4,958. With a land area of 10.46 km2 (4.04 sq mi), it had a population density of480.6/km2 (1,244.7/sq mi) in 2021.[11]
| 2021 | 2016 | |
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| Population | 5,027 (+1.4% from 2016) | 4,958 (-2.3% from 2011) |
| Land area | 10.46 km2 (4.04 sq mi) | 10.48 km2 (4.05 sq mi) |
| Population density | 480.8/km2 (1,245/sq mi) | 473.0/km2 (1,225/sq mi) |
| Median age | 46.0 (M: 44.8, F: 48.0) | 44.5 (M: 46.0, F: 42.9) |
| Private dwellings | 2,304 (total) | 2,195 (total) |
| Median household income | $67,200 |
| Language | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| English | 2,600 | 59% |
| French | 1,425 | 33% |
| Other | 335 | 8% |
| Language | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| English | 1,960 | 44% |
| French | 1,570 | 36% |
| Other | 885 | 20% |
| Ethnicity | Population | Percentage (%) |
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| Not a visible minority | 3,830 | 85.6% |
| Visible minorities | 645 | 14.4% |
The current mayor of Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue is Paola Hawa.
There are six city councilors:
The mayors of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue have been:[5]
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is traversed byAutoroute 40 (theTrans-Canada Highway) andAutoroute 20, which crosses theOttawa River over theGalipeault Bridge linking it toÎle Perrot.
For public transit, the town is served by theSainte-Anne-de-Bellevue commuter train station on theVaudreuil-Hudson Line. It also covered by the bus network of theSociété de transport de Montréal.
Anse-à-l'Orme station, in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, will be the westernmost terminus for theRéseau express métropolitain rapid transit system on the island of Montreal. The West Island branch is currently undergoing testing and is scheduled to open in spring 2026.[15]
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.[16] It operates the École primaire du Bout-de-l'Isle.
TheLester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB) operates Anglophone public schools in the area. It operatesMacdonald High School.
The zoned elementary school is Dorset Elementary School inBaie-D'Urfé.[17]
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