22-495: Saint-André-de-Restigouche is a municipality in Quebec , Canada. Its economy is mostly dependent on agriculture, as well as forestry. The International Appalachian Trail traverses the municipality. In 1760, the site was the scene of the last battle between the English and French, which resulted in the destruction of the settlement and the displacement of its population to the east. It
44-523: A change of 1.7% from its 2016 population of 18,980 . With a land area of 20.91 km (8.07 sq mi), it had a population density of 923.1/km (2,390.8/sq mi) in 2021. According to the Office québécois de la langue française , Dorval has been officially recognized as a bilingual municipality since 2005-11-02. Air Inuit and La Senza have their headquarters in Dorval. Bombardier Inc. houses
66-485: A city on 1 January 2006. Although Dorval had the legal status of cité prior to the merger, the reconstituted city has the status of ville (see Types of municipalities in Quebec ). Nevertheless, the municipal government refers to itself as the " Cité de Dorval ". In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Dorval had a population of 19,302 living in 8,716 of its 9,058 total private dwellings,
88-428: 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
110-542: Is also a different kind of submunicipal unit, unconstituted localities , which is defined and tracked not by the Quebec Ministry of Municipal Affairs but by Statistics Canada . Dorval Dorval / d ɔːr ˈ v æ l / ( French pronunciation: [dɔʁval] ) is an on-island suburban city on the island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec , Canada . In 2016, the Canadian Census indicated that
132-535: Is in Dorval. Originally a military airfield used mainly to refuel new fighters and bombers being flown to Great Britain during the Second World War, Trudeau Airport today serves over 18 million passengers annually. The Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys operates Francophone public schools, but were previously operated by the Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys until 15 June 2020. The change
154-449: 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
176-623: The Assemetquagan River with the Matapédia River is located at the northwest end of the municipality. In addition to the hamlet of Saint-André-de-Restigouche proper, the municipality is made up of two other hamlets that act as neighborhoods within the municipality of Saint-André-de-Restgouche: Municipality (Quebec) The following 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
198-506: The Canada 2011 Census . The island is connected to the city of Dorval by a private ferry service. On 1 January 2002, as part of the 2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal , Dorval was merged into the city of Montreal , being combined with L'Île-Dorval to form the Dorval–L'Île-Dorval borough of Montreal . After a change of government and a 2004 referendum , Dorval was reconstituted as
220-565: 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
242-683: 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
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#1732876108610264-525: The Second World War many middle-class families migrated to Dorval from the city of Montreal and from other parts of Canada . This migration was made possible by the widening of highway 20 and by the large-scale construction of new dwellings. This new housing consisted mostly of single family homes with some townhouses and low-rise apartment buildings, built on lands previously used for agriculture and recreational activities. The post-war period also saw
286-478: The island of Montreal , the Grand Trunk Railway , which came to Dorval in 1855, was highly instrumental in attracting many wealthier families, mostly English-speaking , in search of a summer refuge in proximity to their downtown residence and place of work. Access to Dorval from Montreal was also facilitated by the extension of streetcar service to Dorval's eastern city limits in the interwar period. After
308-498: 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
330-443: The construction of Dorval Gardens shopping centre in 1954, one of Greater Montreal 's first mall-style shopping centres. Today the shopping centre remains the city's principal centre of retail trade. The island named Dorval Island , settled in 1860 and located less than one kilometre offshore from Dorval, constitutes the separate city of L'Île-Dorval despite being a summer cottage community with only five permanent residents as of
352-808: The headquarters of its Bombardier Aerospace division in Dorval. Previously Inter-Canadien had its headquarters in Dorval. Air Canada Centre, the headquarters of Air Canada , are located on the grounds of Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport and in Saint-Laurent , Montreal , near Dorval . List of former mayors: Aéroports de Montréal , the Greater Montreal airport authority, has its headquarters in Leigh-Capreol Place (French: place Leigh-Capreol) in Dorval. Most of Montreal's principal airport, Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (previously known as Dorval Airport ),
374-456: 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
396-435: The oldest in Canada and North America. The history of Dorval dates back more than 350 years to 1665 when Sulpician priests established a mission on the outskirts of Ville-Marie , a French settlement which later became known as Montreal . Dorval was originally named Gentilly. It was later renamed La Présentation-de-la-Vierge-Marie. In 1691, the domain of La Présentation, originally owned by Pierre Le Gardeur de Repentigny,
418-496: The population increased by 4.2% to 18,980. Although the city has the largest surface area in Montréal’s west side, it is among the least densely populated. Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport constitutes about 60% of the city's land; consequently, all of Dorval's population is concentrated in the southern part of the city. Dorval is the oldest city in the west side of Montréal, having been founded in 1667, and one of
440-523: The township lost the south-eastern portion of its territory when it separated to form the Township Municipality of Ristigouche-Partie-Sud-Est . In 1989, the township changed its name and status to Municipality of Saint-André-de-Restigouche, choosing to adopt the parish name to avoid confusion with other places. The municipality is bounded to the west by the Matapedia River . The confluence of
462-536: Was acquired by Jean-Baptiste Bouchard dit d'Orval. "d'Orval" (French for "of Orval") was added to Bouchard's name by his father Claude in reference his birthplace Orval in Montigny-Lengrain , France . It was incorporated as a village in 1892, a town in 1903, and a city in 1956 (in French it was termed a cité , an Old French term from which the English legal term "city" originates). As with many other settlements on
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#1732876108610484-604: Was repopulated by Acadians and French Canadians in the 19th century. In 1842, the geographic township of Ristigouche was formed, named after the Restigouche River (R i stigouche in French) on which it bordered. In 1855, it was incorporated as the Township Municipality of Ristigouche. In 1908, the Parish of Saint-André was established, named in honour of André-Albert Blais (1842-1919), bishop of Rimouski from 1891 to 1919. In 1907,
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