17-648: Danville or Dansville may refer to: Places [ edit ] Canada [ edit ] Danville, Quebec United States [ edit ] Danville, Alabama Danville, Arkansas Danville, California Danville, Georgia Danville, Illinois Danville, Indiana Danville, Iowa Danville, Kansas Danville, Kentucky Danville, Allegany County, Maryland Danville, Prince George's County, Maryland Dansville, Michigan Danville, Mississippi Danville, Missouri Danville, New Hampshire Dansville, Livingston County, New York ,
34-459: A Roman Catholic church. The Presbyterian church has been retrofitted into a four-star restaurant, and the Christian Advent church has been a private residence since 2007, following its closing in 2006. The Catholic church was erected in 2003, following the 2001 loss by fire of the earlier church erected in 1891. The current United church was completed in 1875 for a Congregational parish and is
51-477: A few minor differences from that of ville . However it is moot since there are no longer any cities in existence. Dorval and Côte Saint-Luc had the status of city when they were amalgamated into Montreal on January 1, 2002 as part of the municipal reorganization in Quebec ; however, when re-constituted as independent municipalities on January 1, 2006, it was with the status of town ( French : ville ) (although
68-481: A suburb of Pretoria, Gauteng Province Television [ edit ] Jo Danville ( CSI: NY ) Danville, a fictional city in the television series Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law See also [ edit ] Damville (disambiguation) Denville Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Danville . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
85-524: A village in the town of North Dansville Dansville, Steuben County, New York , a town Danville, Ohio Danville, Pennsylvania Danville, Texas Danville, Vermont , a New England town Danville (CDP), Vermont , village in the town Danville, Virginia Danville, Washington , home of Danville's Lost Gold Ledge, a lost gold mine Danville, West Virginia Danville, Wisconsin South Africa [ edit ] Danville, Pretoria ,
102-548: Is a city in the administrative region of Estrie , in the Canadian province of Quebec . As of the 2016 Canadian Census , the population was 3,836. Danville is on a stretch of Chemin Craig , a road built in the 19th century connecting Quebec to New England . The town is about 70 miles (110 km) north of the Vermont border. Loyalists from New England began arriving in 1783 and gave
119-889: Is a list of the types of local and supralocal territorial units in Quebec , Canada, including those used solely for statistical purposes, as defined by the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, Regions and Land Occupancy and compiled by the Institut de la statistique du Québec Not included are the urban agglomerations in Quebec , which, although they group together multiple municipalities, exercise only what are ordinarily local municipal powers. A list of local municipal units in Quebec by regional county municipality can be found at List of municipalities in Quebec . All municipalities (except cities), whether township, village, parish, or unspecified ones, are functionally and legally identical. The only difference
136-449: Is that the designation might serve to disambiguate between otherwise identically named municipalities, often neighbouring ones. Many such cases have had their names changed, or merged with the identically named nearby municipality since the 1950s, such as the former Township of Granby and City of Granby merging and becoming the Town of Granby in 2007. Municipalities are governed primarily by
153-565: The Code municipal du Québec (Municipal Code of Québec, R.S.Q. c. C-27.1), whereas cities and towns are governed by the Loi sur les cités et villes (Cities and Towns Act, R.S.Q. c. C-19) as well as (in the case of the older ones) various individual charters. The very largest communities in Quebec are colloquially called cities; however there are currently no municipalities under the province's current legal system classified as cities. Quebec's government uses
170-695: The First World War , the Second World War , and the Korea War is in the centre of the square. Another memorial, to Private Timothy O'Hea , a recipient of the Victoria Cross , is erected in front of the former City Hall. Once a busy town inhabited by workers of the nearby Johns Manville asbestos mine , the town has calmed down considerably since the mine's closing. A magnesium smelter, Magnola, part of Noranda, using mine tailings from local asbestos mine,
187-548: The English term town as the translation for the French term ville , and township for canton . The least-populated towns in Quebec ( Barkmere , with a population of about 60, or L'Île-Dorval , with less than 10) are much smaller than the most populous municipalities of other types ( Saint-Charles-Borromée and Sainte-Sophie , each with populations of over 13,300). The title city ( French : cité code=C) still legally exists, with
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#1732837003327204-415: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Danville&oldid=1185259534 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Danville, Quebec Danville
221-456: The municipal government of Dorval still uses the name Cité de Dorval). Prior to January 1, 1995, the code for municipalité was not M but rather SD ( sans désignation ; that is, unqualified municipality). Prior to 2004, there was a single code, TR, to cover the modern-day TC and TK. When the distinction between TC and TK was introduced, it was made retroactive to 1984, date of the federal Cree-Naskapi (of Quebec) Act (S.C. 1984, c. 18). There
238-514: The oldest church in the town. One of the two Anglican Church of England churches is located on a historic site on the countryside, near the border of the Shipton Township, Denison Mills. Danville has two primary schools: a French language school, École Masson , and an English-speaking school, known as ADS ( Asbestos -Shipton-Danville). In the centre is a square formed by the enlargement of an intersection. A memorial for soldiers killed in
255-574: The town its name in memory of their hometown in Vermont of the same name: Danville, Vermont . The founder of Danville was Simeon Flint, a resident from Danville, Vermont. Until about 1971, the population of Danville was mostly anglophone. However, in the mid-1970s, many of the younger generation migrated to English Canada , Greater Montreal , or New England . There are many heritage buildings, including three Protestant churches (Christian Adventist, Presbyterian, and United Church of Canada ), two Anglican churches, an Evangelical Baptist church and
272-441: The town's many churches and display their artwork. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Danville had a population of 3,888 living in 1,778 of its 1,878 total private dwellings, a change of 1.6% from its 2016 population of 3,826 . With a land area of 151.73 km (58.58 sq mi), it had a population density of 25.6/km (66.4/sq mi) in 2021. City (Quebec) The following
289-399: Was set up in the town for a short time, but it ended up closing because of increasing foreign competition. The bucolic rolling fields in the area are good for farming, with many farms having been around for over a century. Both dairy and beef cattle are raised in the area although other livestock are also common. Each year, the town has an art symposium in which artists from the area gather in
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