L'Île-Perrot
The Town of Île-Perrot is a town and municipality on Île Perrot in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 10,756. The town is at the western end of Lake Saint-Louis, and borders the local island communities of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Pincourt and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot. It also includes Dowker Island and the small Claude and Bellevue Islands.
History
The island was granted on October 29, 1672, to François-Marie Perrot, captain in the Picardy Regiment and governor of Montreal in 1670. In 1786, the place received its first parish priest.In 1845, the Municipality of l'Isle-Perrot was founded, abolished in 1847, and re-established in 1855 as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Jeanne-Chantal-de-l'Isle-Perrot. In 1946, its name was changed to L'Île-Perrot, and in 1955, it changed statutes from parish municipality to ville.
In 1949, L'Île-Perrot greatly reduced in size when a large part of its territory was split off to form the new Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, L'Île-Perrot had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.Local government
List of former mayors:- Ludger Stocker
- Florian Bleau
- Marcel Rainville
- René Émard
- Pierre Bleau
- Michel Martin
- Claude Girouard
- François Grégoire
- Marc Roy
- Pierre Séguin
Transportation
Autoroute 20 runs through the town, with three at-grade intersections serving as exits. The east side of L'Île-Perrot is bordered by a branch of the Ottawa River with a crossing via Autoroute 20 over the Galipeault Bridge to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on Montreal Island.There is a shuttle bus service operated by CIT La Presqu'Île connecting to the Île-Perrot station on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.
Education
There are 3 francophone elementary schools and an adult education centre in L'Île-Perrot, all run by the Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs.Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools. The community is zoned to Dorset Elementary School in Baie-d'Urfé.