Sainte-Catherine, Quebec

Sainte-Catherine is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the St. Lawrence River in the Regional County Municipality of Roussillon.

History

Land occupied for more than three centuries, since the establishment of the Iroquois mission in 1676, it is only in 1937 that the founding of la paroisse de Sainte-Catherine de Laprairie really marks a territorial organization. In 1973, a demographic boom finally granted the status of town to the village. In 2006, according to the city's official site, there was 17 000 inhabitants in Ste-Catherine.

The inauguration of the H.-Mercier bridge, in 1934, and then of the Champlain bridge, in 1962, greatly boosted the local economy.

Demographics

According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census:
*Population: 15,953
*% Change (1996-2001): 16.2
*Dwellings: 5,891
*Area (km²): 10.19
*Density (persons per km²): 1565.6

Mother tongue language from Canada 2006 Census

Famous natives

*Guillaume Latendresse, NHL player
*Karine Sergerie, women's taekwondo champion, Olympian

	North: "St. Lawrence River"
West: Kahnawake Mohawk Territory	Sainte-Catherine	East: Delson
	South: Saint-Constant