Greater Montreal

Greater Montreal
Grand Montréal
—  Metropolitan area  —
Montreal Metropolitan Community
Motto: L'espace pour se réaliser
Room to make it real
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Country Canada
Province Quebec
Area
 - Total  dunams (4258.97 km2 / 1644.40 sq mi)
Population (2009)
 - Total 3,814,700
 - Density
 - Urban density
 - Rural density
 - Metro density
 -  Density
 -  Density
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code prefixes H, J
Area code(s) 438, 450, 514, 579 (2010)

Greater Montreal is the most populous metropolitan area in the Canadian province of Quebec. As of 2009, Statistics Canada identifies Montreal's Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) (land area ) as Canada's second most populous with a population of 3,814,700.[1] A smaller area of is governed by the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC) (French: Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal, CMM). This level of government is headed by a president (currently Montreal 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 serves 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.

Contents

Largest cities

Rank City Region Population (2006) Land Area Population Density
km2 mi2 /km2 /mi2
1 Montreal Montreal 1,620,693
2 Laval Laval 368,709
3 Longueuil South Shore 229,330
4 Terrebonne North Shore 94,703
5 Repentigny North Shore 76,237
6 Brossard South Shore 71,154
7 Dollard-des-Ormeaux West Island 48,930
8 Blainville North Shore 46,493
9 Châteauguay South Shore 42,786
10 Saint-Eustache North Shore 42,062

Cities and towns

Island of Montreal

Laval

Montérégie

Beauharnois-Salaberry

Lajammerais

La Vallée-du-Richelieu

Roussillon

Rouville

Urban Agglomeration of Longueuil

Vaudreuil-Soulanges

Laurentians

Lanaudière

Demographics

>. . 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. 
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

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.

The major transit commissions under the Metropolitan Transit Agency are:

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

CEGEPs and community colleges

Other schools

See also

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References

  1. ↑ . http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/demo05a-eng.htm. 
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