Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac
Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in the Canadian province of Quebec, in the Deux-Montagnes Regional County Municipality, from Montreal. It is crossed from east to west by Route 344, commonly known as Oka Road. The town shares its borders with Deux-Montagnes to the east, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac to the west, the Lake of Two Mountains to the south, and Saint-Eustache to the north.
It shares police, firefighters, waterworks, and other services with the city of Deux-Montagnes.
It was formerly known as a rural town in which most of its inhabitants were seasonal vacationers, but it is increasingly lived in year-round.
History
On 27 April 2019, there was a flooding that forced more than 6000 people to be evacuated.Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac 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.Population trend:
- Population in 2021: 19,797
- Population in 2016: 18,074
- Population in 2011: 15,689
- Population in 2006: 11,311
- Population in 2001: 8,742
- Population in 1996: 8,295
- Population in 1991: 7,410
- Population in 1986: 6,143
- Population in 1981: 5,586
- Population in 1976: 4,726
- Population in 1971: 3.169
- Population in 1966: 1,999
- Population in 1961: 1,411
- English as first language: 4.6%
- French as first language: 82.1%
- English and French as first language: 1.4%
- Other as first language: 9.9%
Education
The Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles operates Francophone schools. This community has three elementary schools and one alternative lower secondary school. École Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes has upper secondary education. Some areas are served by École des Mésanges and Emmanuel-Chénard, both also in Deux-Montagnes, and Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes.Anglophone schools are operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, and the community is served by Lake of Two Mountains High School, in Deux-Montagnes. Mountainview Elementary School and Saint Jude Elementary School, both in Deux-Montagnes, also serve this community.