Pointe-des-Cascades | |
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Coordinates: 45°20′N 73°58′W / 45.333°N 73.967°W [1] | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Montérégie |
RCM | Vaudreuil-Soulanges |
Constituted | May 1, 1961 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Peter Zytynsky |
• Federal riding | Salaberry—Suroît |
• Prov. riding | Soulanges |
Area | |
• Total | 9.98 km2 (3.85 sq mi) |
• Land | 2.74 km2 (1.06 sq mi) |
Population (2021)
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• Total | 1,775 |
• Density | 646.8/km2 (1,675/sq mi) |
• Pop 2016-2021 | 19.9% |
• Dwellings | 762 |
Time zone | UTC−5 ( EST) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC−4 ( EDT) |
Postal code(s) | |
Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
Highways | R-338 |
Website |
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Pointe-des-Cascades (French pronunciation: [pwɛ̃t de kaskad]) is a village municipality in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on a spit of land where the St. Lawrence River flows into Lake Saint-Louis. The river has here a significant drop, forming several cascades which give the village its name. [5] The islands of Île des Cascades and Île des Joybert are connected by a narrow causeway, but Île des Cascades and Pointe-des-Cascades are only connected artificially.
Starting in the mid-seventeenth century until 1700, many military expeditions arrived at this place in order to portage around the cascades on the Saint Lawrence River. The first reference to Pointe-des-Cascades appeared in a text of Louis-Armand de Lahontan in 1684 and on a map of Deshayes in 1695, when Pointe des Cascades was included in the Vaudreuil Lordship. [5]
In 1893, the post office opened under the English name Cascades Point (renamed in 1951 to Pointe-des-Cascades). A few years later construction began on the Soulanges Canal and when it was completed in 1899, the village became the eastern, downstream terminus of the canal. [5] In 1958, it closed when it was superseded by the new Beauharnois Canal. The paths along the canal are now used as a regional cycling route. [6]
In 1961, the Village Municipality of Pointe-des-Cascades was formed on the territory of the Parish Municipalities of Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges (now Les Cèdres) and Saint-Michel-de-Vaudreuil (now part of Vaudreuil-Dorion). [5]
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Source: Statistics Canada [7] |
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pointe-des-Cascades had a population of 1,775 living in 743 of its 762 total private dwellings, a change of 19.9% from its 2016 population of 1,481. With a land area of 2.74 km2 (1.06 sq mi), it had a population density of 647.8/km2 (1,677.8/sq mi) in 2021. [8]
2021 | 2016 | 2011 | |
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Population | 1,775 (+19.9% from 2016) | 1,481 (10.5% from 2011) | 1,340 (+28.1% from 2006) |
Land area | 2.74 km2 (1.06 sq mi) | 2.68 km2 (1.03 sq mi) | 2.67 km2 (1.03 sq mi) |
Population density | 646.8/km2 (1,675/sq mi) | 553.1/km2 (1,433/sq mi) | 502.2/km2 (1,301/sq mi) |
Median age | 37.2 (M: 38.0, F: 37.2) | 39.7 (M: 39.2, F: 40.2) | 40.9 (M: 41.1, F: 40.7) |
Private dwellings | 762 (total) | 672 (total) | 600 (total) |
Median household income | $88,000 | $68,045 | $55,754 |
Canada Census mother tongue - Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec [7] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | French
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English
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Other
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Year | responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | |||||
2021
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1,775
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1,335 | 8.1% | 75.2% | 230 | 58.6% | 13.0% | 55 | 175.0% | 3.1% | 145 | 81.3% | 8.2% | |||||
2016
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1,480
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1,235 | 4.7% | 83.4% | 145 | 45.0% | 9.8% | 20 | 20.0% | 1.4% | 80 | 128.6% | 5.4% | |||||
2011
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1,340
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1,180 | 19.8% | 88.1% | 100 | 185.7% | 7.5% | 25 | n/a% | 1.9% | 35 | 133.3% | 2.6% | |||||
2006
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1,035
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985 | 13.2% | 95.2% | 35 | 22.2% | 3.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 15 | n/a% | 1.5% | |||||
2001
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915
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870 | 2.2% | 95.1% | 45 | 350.0% | 4.9% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | |||||
1996
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920
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890 | n/a | 96.7% | 10 | n/a | 1.1% | 10 | n/a | 1.1% | 10 | n/a | 1.1% |
Year | Liberal | Conservative | Bloc Québécois | New Democratic | Green | ||||||
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2021 | 32% | 273 | 18% | 154 | 36% | 300 | 9% | 79 | 2% | 14 | |
2019 | 38% | 349 | 6% | 56 | 38% | 350 | 10% | 88 | 6% | 53 |
Year | CAQ | Liberal | QC solidaire | Parti Québécois | |||||
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2018 | 48% | 447 | 21% | 200 | 15% | 140 | 12% | 108 | |
2014 | 0% | 0 | 39% | 294 | 13% | 101 | 42% | 322 |
Pointe-des-Cascades forms part of the federal electoral district of Salaberry—Suroît and has been represented by Claude DeBellefeuille of the Bloc Québécois since 2019. Provincially, Pointe-des-Cascades is part of the Soulanges electoral district and is represented by Marilyne Picard of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.
List of former mayors: [16]
Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools. [17]
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools. It is zoned to Birchwood Elementary School in Saint-Lazare and St. Patrick Elementary School in Pincourt. [18]
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