- Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
Infobox Settlement
name = Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec
settlement_type = City
official_name = Ville de Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
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motto = "Fiers de nos traditions"
(French for "Proud of our traditions")
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subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_type1 = Province
subdivision_type2 = Region
subdivision_type3 = RCM or TE
subdivision_type4 = Electoral district
subdivision_name = CAN
subdivision_name1 = QC
subdivision_name2 =Montérégie (16)
subdivision_name3 =Urban agglomeration of Longueuil (TE 58)
subdivision_name4 = Federal:Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert
MP:Carole Lavallée
Provincial: Chambly
MNA:Richard Merlini
leader_title =Mayor
leader_name =Claude Benjamin
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established_title = Established
established_date = 1842
established_title2 = Incorporated
established_date2 = 1958
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area_magnitude = 1 E8
area_total_km2 = 43.28
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population_as_of = 2006 Census
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population_total = 24388
population_density_km2 = 563.6
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timezone = Eastern (EST)
utc_offset = -5
timezone_DST = EDT
utc_offset_DST = -4
latd=45 |latm=31 |lats=00 |latNS=N
longd=73 |longm=20 |longs=00 |longEW=W
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postal_code_type = Postal code span
postal_code = J3V
area_code = 450
website = [http://www.ville.stbruno.qc.ca/ ville.stbruno.qc.ca]
footnotes =Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville is an off-island suburb of
Montreal , in southwesternQuebec ,Canada , on the south bank of theSaint Lawrence River just east ofMontreal . It was merged with Longueuil in2002 but de-merged in2006 .History
Pierre Boucher de Boucherville Junior was granted the Montarville seigneury in 1710.
François-Pierre Bruneau bought the seigneury in 1829. The Roman Catholic parish of Saint Bruno was set up in 1842. The two names "Saint Bruno" and "Montarville" were joined in 1855 when it became a parish municipality. It incorporated as a city in 1958.Parks
The town resides at the foot of
Mont Saint-Bruno , one of the mountains that make up theMonteregian Hills . The mountain is home to a provincial park, "Parc National du Mont-Saint-Bruno", as well as a ski hill.Demographics
Languages
The 2006 census found that about 85% of residents spoke French as a
mother tongue (including persons who had more than one mother tongue), and that about 11% of residents spoke English as a mother tongue (also including persons who had more than one mother tongue). The next most common mother tongue was Italian. [cite web | title = Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, V | work = Detailed Mother Tongue (103), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Divisions and Census Subdivisions, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data | publisher = Statistics Canada | date =2007-11-20 | url = http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89202&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=701&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=772943 | accessdate = 2008-02-06]{| class="wikitable" align="left"
- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"! "Mother Tongue"! "Population" ! "Percentage"
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Spanish
105
0.43%
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Portuguese
100
0.41%
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Chinese languages
80
0.33%
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Polish
75
0.31%
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Hungarian
45
0.19%
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Dutch
35
0.14%
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Czech
25
0.10%
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Khmer
25
0.10%
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Russian
25
0.10%
-List of mayors
*1866-1868 : Joseph-Octave Leduc
*1868-1870 : Antoine-Dominique Hurtubise
*1870-1872 : Joseph-Octave Leduc
*1872-1874 : Tancrède Boucher de Grosbois, M.D.
*1874-1877 : Timothé Sauriol
*1878 : Jérémie Huet
*1879-1886 : Timothé Sauriol
*1886 : Michel Provost
*1887-1891 : Toussaint Bachand
*1891-1893 : Frank Bruneau
*1893 : Vital Delière
*1894 : Louis Baillargeon
*1895-1902 : Vital Delière
*1903-1906 : Ephrem Huette
*1907 : Clovis Mongeau
*1908 : Stanislas Boissy
*1909-1910 : Lucien Caillé
*1911-1912 : Philias Grisé
*1913-1916 : Oscar Berthiaume
*1917-1920 : Louis-Arthur Léonard
*1921-1932 : Armand Huet
*1933-1939 : Paul-Émile Huet
*1939-1949 : Ernest Dulude
*1949-1952 : J. Donat Fournier
*1952-1953 : Ernest Dulude
*1953-1955 : Henri C. Bois
*1960-1968 :Gérard Filion
*1968-1969 : Claude Allard
*1969-1971 : Gérard Lepage
*1971-1975 : J. James Verge
*1975-1979 : J. Y. Serge Dazé
*1979-2001 :Marcel Dulude
*2002-2006 : Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville merged with the city ofLongueuil
*2007-current :Claude Benjamin References
External links
* [http://www.ville.stbruno.qc.ca/asp/siteweb/Accueil_Saint_Bruno.asp City web site]
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