Greater Montreal

Greater Montreal Grand Montréal
—  Metropolitan area  —
Montreal Metropolitan Community
Motto: L'espace pour se réaliser Room to make it real
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Area
– Total	4,258.97 km2 (1,644.40 sq mi)
Population (2010)
– Total	3,859,318
– Density	906.2/km2 (2,347.1/sq mi)
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
– Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code prefixes	H, J
Area code(s)	438, 450, 514, 579

Greater Montreal is one of the two metropolitan communities of Quebec.

Greater Montreal is the most populous metropolitan area in Québec. As of 2009, Statistics Canada identifies Montréal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) (land area 4,259 square kilometres (1,644 sq mi)) as Canada's second most populous with a population of 3,859,318.^[1] A smaller area of 3,838 square kilometres (1,482 sq mi) is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC) (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, CMM). This level of government is headed by a president (currently Montréal mayor Gérald Tremblay).

The inner ring is composed of densely populated municipalities located in close proximity to Downtown Montreal. It includes the entire Island of Montreal, Laval, and the Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil.

The outer ring is composed of low-density municipalities located on the fringe of Metropolitan Montreal. Most of these cities and towns are semi-rural. Specifically, the term off-island suburbs refers to those suburbs that are located on the North Shore of the Mille-Îles River, those on the South Shore that were never included in the megacity of Longueuil, and those on the Vaudreuil-Soulanges Peninsula. Communities in that area are also informally referred to as the 450, after the telephone area code that has served the region since 1998.

Due to their proximity to Montreal's downtown core, some suburbs on the South Shore (Longueuil, Brossard, Saint-Lambert, and Boucherville) are usually not included in the off-island suburbs even though they are on the mainland.

Largest cities

The logo proposed in 2008 for Greater Montreal, which quickly fell into disuse just months after its adoption.

Rank	City	Region	Population (2006)	Land Area		Population Density
				km2	mi2	/km2	/mi2
1	Montréal	Montreal	1,620,693	365.13	140.98	4,438.7	11,496
2	Laval	Laval	368,709	247.09	95.40	1,492.2	3,865
3	Longueuil	South Shore	229,330	115.59	44.63	1,984.0	5,139
4	Terrebonne	North Shore	94,703	154.60	59.69	612.6	1,587
5	Repentigny	North Shore	76,237	61.76	23.85	1,234.5	3,197
6	Brossard	South Shore	71,154	45.20	17.45	1,574.3	4,077
7	Dollard-des-Ormeaux	West Island	48,930	15.10	5.83	3,240.0	8,392
8	Blainville	North Shore	46,493	55.10	21.27	843.8	2,185
9	Châteauguay	South Shore	42,786	35.89	13.86	1,192.1	3,088
10	Saint-Eustache	North Shore	42,062	69.42	26.80	605.9	1,569

Cities and towns

A panorama of Downtown Montreal and part of its metropolitan area taken from the Chalet du Mont Royal at the top of Mount Royal

Island of Montreal

Baie-d'Urfé Beaconsfield Côte Saint-Luc Dollard-des-Ormeaux Dorval Hampstead Kirkland L'Île-Dorval Montreal Montreal Est

Montreal West Mount Royal Pointe-Claire Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Senneville Westmount

Laval

• Laval

Montérégie

Kahnawake (native reserve) Beauharnois-Salaberry Beauharnois Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

Lajammerais

• Calixa-Lavallée
• Contrecœur
• Saint-Amable
• Sainte-Julie
• Varennes
• Verchères

La Vallée-du-Richelieu

• Belœil
• Carignan
• Chambly
• McMasterville
• Mont-Saint-Hilaire
• Otterburn Park
• Saint-Basile-le-Grand
• Saint-Jean-Baptiste
• Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil

Roussillon

• Candiac
• Châteauguay
• Delson
• La Prairie
• Léry
• Mercier
• Sainte-Catherine
• Saint-Constant
• Saint-Isidore
• Saint-Mathieu
• Saint-Philippe

Rouville

• Richelieu
• Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu

Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil

• Boucherville
• Brossard
• Longueuil
• Saint-Lambert
• Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville

Vaudreuil-Soulanges

• Coteau-du-lac
• Hudson
• Les Cèdres
• Les Coteaux
• L'Île-Cadieux
• L'Île-Perrot
• Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot
• Pincourt
• Pointe-des-Cascades
• Rigaud
• Rivière-Beaudette
• Saint-Zotique
• Saint-Lazare
• Terrasse-Vaudreuil
• Vaudreuil-Dorion
• Vaudreuil-sur-le-Lac

Laurentians

• Blainville
• Bois-des-Filion
• Boisbriand
• Deux-Montagnes
• Lorraine
• Mirabel
• Oka
• Pointe-Calumet
• Rosemère
• Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines
• Saint-Eustache
• Saint-Jérôme
• Saint-Joseph-du-Lac
• Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac
• Sainte-Thérèse

Lanaudière

• Charlemagne
• L'Assomption
• Mascouche
• Repentigny
• Saint-Sulpice
• Terrebonne

Demographics

Main article: Demographics of Montreal

Mother tongue languages (2006)^[2]

Language	Greater Montreal	Quebec	Canada
French	66.5%	80.1%	22.3%
English	13.2%	8.6%	58.4%
Italian	3.5%	1.8%	1.5%
Arabic	3.1%	1.6%	0.9%
Spanish	2.6%	1.5%	1.2%
Creole	1.4%	0.7%	0.2%
Chinese	1.2%	0.6%	1.5%
Greek	1.2%	0.6%	0.4%
Portuguese	0.9%	0.5%	0.7%
Romanian	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%
Berber	0.7%	0.4%	0.3%
Vietnamese	0.7%	0.4%	0.5%
Russian	0.5%	0.3%	0.4%
Armenian	0.4%	0.2%	0.1%
Polish	0.4%	0.2%	0.7%

Transportation

Main article: Agence métropolitaine de transport

The Agence métropolitaine de transport (AMT) (English: Metropolitan Transportation Agency) plans, integrates, and coordinates public transport across Greater Montreal, including the Island of Montreal, Laval (Île Jésus), and communities along both the north shore of the Rivière des Mille-Îles and the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Established in 1996, the AMT's commuter rail system has five lines linking the downtown core with communities as far west as Rigaud, as far east as Mont-Saint-Hilaire, and as far north as Saint-Jérôme. AMT's mandate also includes the management of reserved High-occupancy vehicle lanes, metropolitan bus terminuses, park-and-ride lots, and a budget of $163 million, which is shared amongst the transit corporations and inter-municipal public transit organizations. The AMT's territory spans 63 municipalities and one native reserve, 13 regional county municipalities, and 21 transit authorities. It serves a population of approximately 3.7 million people who make more than 750,000 trips daily.^{[citation needed]}

The major transit commissions under the Metropolitan Transit Agency are:

• Société de transport de Montréal (English: Montreal Transit Corporation), serving the Island of Montreal
• Société de transport de Laval (English: Laval Transit Corporation), serving the city of Laval
• Réseau de transport de Longueuil (English: Longueuil Transit Network), serving the Urban agglomeration of Longueuil

Additionally, there are numerous smaller transit agencies known as Conseil Intermunicipal de Transport (CIT) (English: Intermunicipal Transit Councils).

Education

Greater Montreal is home to a number of higher education institutions, including:

Universities

• Concordia University (Montreal)
• McGill University (Montreal)
• Université de Montréal (Montreal)
• Université du Québec à Montréal (Montreal)
• Université de Sherbrooke (Longueuil)

CEGEPs and community colleges

• Cégep André-Laurendeau (Montreal)
• Cégep Marie-Victorin (Montreal)
• Cégep de Saint-Laurent (Montreal)
• Cégep du Vieux-Montréal (Montreal)
• Champlain College Saint-Lambert (Saint-Lambert)
• Collège Ahuntsic (Montreal)
• Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne (Montreal)
• Collège Édouard-Montpetit (Longueuil)
• Collège Gérald-Godin (Sainte-Geneviève)
• Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf (Montreal)
• Collège Lionel-Groulx (Sainte-Thérèse)
• Collège de Maisonneuve (Montreal)
• College Montmorency (Laval)
• Collège de Rosemont (Montreal)
• Dawson College (Westmount)
• Herzing College (Montreal)
• John Abbott College (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue)
• LaSalle College (Montreal)
• Marianopolis College (Westmount)
• Vanier College (Montreal)
• Collège de Valleyfield (Salaberry-de-Valleyfield)

Other schools

• Lambda School of Music and Fine Arts (Montreal)
• National Theatre School of Canada (Montreal)
• Rabbinical College of Canada (Montreal)

See also

Montreal portal

• Montreal Urban Community

References

1. ^ "Annual Demographic Estimates: Subprovincial Areas: Table 1.3-1 — Annual population estimates and demographic factors of growth by census metropolitan area, Canada, from July to June — Population estimates and factors of growth". Statcan.gc.ca. 2011-02-03. http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/91-214-x/2009000/t021-eng.htm. Retrieved 2011-08-29. 
2. ^ "Montreal (CMA) - Detailed Mother Tongue". Canada 2006 Census. Statistics Canada. April 1, 2008. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=97-555-XCB2006007&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=97-555-XCB2006007&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89186&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=701&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837977. Retrieved 2008-05-18. 

External links

• Metropolitan Community of Montreal website
• Greater Montreal Area Restaurants
• (French) Greater Montreal Area map in .pdf

Coordinates: 45°34′N 73°40′W / 45.56°N 73.66°W / 45.56; -73.66