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For the parish municipality, see Saint-Lambert, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec.
Saint-Lambert is a Canadian city in the province of Quebec located opposite Montreal on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Saint-Lambert was named for either the early French-Canadian hunter Lambert Closse or for Roman Catholic Bishop Lambert of Maastricht. It was home to 21,599 people according to the Canada 2006 Census. Saint-Lambert is divided into two main neighbourhoods. The oldest neighbourhoods is the original city of Saint-Lambert as it existed prior to 1969. It is located in between the Victoria Bridge/Sir Wilfrid Laurier Boulevard and the borough of Vieux-Longueuil. This neighbourhood includes the city's downtown, known as The Village. On the other side of the Victoria Bridge and Sir-Wilfrid-Laurier Boulevard is another area that also includes the former city Préville. It extends to the borders of the city of Brossard and the Longueuil borough of Greenfield Park. Préville, which merged with Saint-Lambert in 1969, was predominantly built up after the Second World War.
[edit] HistoryIn 1636,Louis XIV of France was dividing up seigneuries in the new colony of New France. One of these was known as La Prairie, comprising La Prairie de la Magdeleine and La Prairie de Saint-Lambert. The lower part of the latter, was known as Mouillepied, due to the swampy conditions of the area. Saint-Lambert's first two permanent residents were André Marsil and André Achim in the 18th century. Today André Marsil's house can be found on the corner of Riverside Drive and Notre-Dame Avenue, and has been converted into a textile museum called the Marsil Museum (French: Musée Marcil). Following the establishment of the railroad in 1852 and the completion of the Victoria Bridge in 1854, the village received a permanent link to the island of Montreal. With it came a quick growth in Saint-Lambert's population and the construction of new housing. Saint-Lambert would achieve municipality status in 1857, under its first mayor, Louis Bétournay. In 1892, it reaches village status, and in 1921 attains city status. The Victoria Bridge is the oldest bridge linking Montreal to the South Shore, and is the only rail line linking Quebec's largest city to New York City. Because of this, Saint-Lambert became an important passenger and freight stop for a long period of time. This is evident in the city's architecture, in which many old industrial buildings are found near the railroad tracks. Many of these have since been converted into lofts such as the former Waterman pens factory, originally built in 1908. Saint-Lambert had an anglophone majority population during the beginning of the twentieth century, but has increasingly become the home to upper-middle class francophone families, especially after 1976. During World War I and World War II, Saint-Lambert had one of the highest military enlistment rates in Canada. The small city lost a total of 132 soldiers in both wars. [6] This number was a significant portion of the young people at the time. Since its establishment, the city's limits have barely changed. The village of Préville was formed from a portion of Saint-Lambert's territory in 1948, but re-merged in 1969. In the 1950s, the development of Saint-Lambert was enhanced with the building of the St. Lambert Locks in the St. Lawrence Seaway, to bypass the smaller Lachine Canal, and this became the most easterly lock in the Seaway. Suburban growth from Montreal in this period also affected Saint-Lambert, as well as many of the older communities on the South Shore. The late 1990s saw the construction of a new residential neighbourhood in Saint-Lambert, known as Le Haut Saint-Lambert. It was built on the remaining vacant land in city limits near LeMoyne. In 2007, the city of Saint-Lambert celebrated its 150th anniversary. [edit] Amalgamation and de-amalgamationOn January 1, 2002, municipal reorganization merged Saint-Lambert with LeMoyne to form a borough in the new Longueuil mega-city. There was a strong "de-merger" movement and a referendum was won on June 20, 2004, to re-establish the former city. The city was officially "re-born" on January 1, 2006, while on January 7, 2006, the Saint-Lambert flag was hoisted in front of city hall and the mayor, councillors and city manager took their oath of office. [edit] GeographySaint-Lambert is underlain by Ordovician-era black shale. This bedrock is covered by deep clay drift over most of the town. Soils were poorly drained in their natural state; as such, they were classified as gleysols -- strongly acidic (Longueil series) under most of the town and neutral to mildly alkaline (Boucherville series) in part of the southern section (formerly Preville).[7] Drainage and excavation have been used to adapt the soil for housing construction. The most common trees in Saint-Lambert are those species which tolerate poor drainage. These include poplars, willows, red maple, silver maple and green ash. The American elm was formerly abundant but its population has been severely reduced by Dutch elm disease. Non-native species are commonly represented by Norway maple, silver birch, English oak, blue spruce, common horsechestnut and honey locust. Rare exotics which benefit from St-Lambert's favorable microclimate include Japanese maple and tulip tree. Most trees in Saint-Lambert show some evidence of damage from an ice storm in January 1998 and a severe thunderstorm in June 2008. [edit] Climate The climate of Saint-Lambert is characterized by abundant precipitation and one of the longest, warmest growing seasons in Quebec. As in other parts of Greater Montreal, lengthy spells of hot humid weather are common in summer. Thunderstorms are frequent and occasionally cause widespread damage. Heavy snow is usual in winter and several damaging ice storms have occurred over the town's history. [edit] Government[edit] Municipal The current mayor of the City of Saint-Lambert is Philippe Brunet. There are eight city councillors.
[edit] Federal and provincialTraditionally, the city of Saint-Lambert is predominantly federalist, specifically Liberal both federally and provincially. Despite this, in federal politics the riding tends to usually go in favour of the Bloc Québécois, because it includes a considerable portion of the highly sovereigntist Vieux-Longueuil neighbourhood of Longueuil. The city of Saint-Lambert is located in the federal riding of Saint-Lambert, and its Member of Parliament os Josée Beaudin of the Bloc Québécois. In provincial politics, Saint-Lambert forms part of the Laporte riding and its Member of the National Assembly is Nicole Ménard of the Quebec Liberal Party. The provincial riding is named after Pierre Laporte, a Quebec government cabinet minister who was kidnapped from outside his Saint-Lambert home and murdered by the Front de Libération du Québec in the October Crisis of 1970. [edit] Demographics
As of the census[4] of 2006, there were 21,599 people, 10,572 dwellings, and 5,840 families residing in the city. The population density was 2,859.3 people per square kilometer (7,405.6/km²). The linguistic makeup of the city was 73.8%% francophone, 15.2% anglophone, and 9.5% all other languages combined. In the city the population was spread out with 15.1% under the age of 15, 9.1% from 15 to 24, 21.1% from 25 to 44, 29.1% from 45 to 64, and 25.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. 44.1% of the population is male, and 55.9% is female. The median income for a household in the city was $61,583, and the median income for a family was $89,786. The median income for the city was $36,293. About 11.9% of the population were low income, including 9.0% of those under age 18. The average value of an owned dwelling was $311,329.
 According to the 2001[10] census, there were 15,690 Roman Catholics in Saint-Lambert, who accounted for seventy-six percent of the population. They are served by three churches.Église catholique de St-Lambert and Église catholique Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin serve Francophone Catholics, and St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church serves Anglophone Catholics. Additionally, there were 1,970 Protestants in Saint-Lambert in 2001, accounting for 9.5% of all residents. They share five churches with the rest of the south shore Protestant population. St. Barnabas Anglican Church, St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, St. Lambert United Church, South Shore Seventh-day Adventist Church and Good Sheppard Lutheran Church.[10] The number of non-Christians in Saint-Lambert amounts to less than five percent of the population, and 9.6% of the population observe no religion whatsoever. [edit] Education Saint-Lambert's citizens are well served in educational institutions for a city of its size. The highest level of these is the public anglophone CEGEP with 2,500 students, Champlain College Saint-Lambert which also houses an office for Université du Québec à Montréal. The Commission Scolaire Marie-Victorin has jurisdiction over three French language primary schools in Saint-Lambert, École Des Saints-Anges, École Rabeau and Préville Elementary. Collège Durocher Saint-Lambert is a large French language private school and is therefore not affiliated with any school board. It consists of two campuses, the Saint-Lambert Campus on the corner of Riverside and Notre-Dame Avenue as well as the Durocher Campus on the corner of Riverside and Tiffin Road, opposite Champlain Regional College. The English language Riverside School Board operates five schools on Saint-Lambert's territory. The most notable of these is the IB-accredited Chambly Academy which is home to over five-hundred students from Grade 7-Grade 11. The other secondary school that the board operates in the city is The Alternate School which is meant to reintegrate at-risk youth into mainstream society. St. Lambert Elementary School serves Kindergarten to Grade 6, and also houses around five-hundred students. Intellectually-disabled students are served by REACH School as well as a program at Chambly Academy geared to help them achieve success. ACCESS Continuing Education and Career Training Centre is an adult education institution, helping adults and immigrants get high school diplomas. [edit] Transportation[edit] Passenger railAmtrak, the U.S. national passenger rail system, provides daily service to Saint-Lambert Station, operating its Adirondack in both directions between Montreal and New York City, using the Victoria Bridge (Montreal). It is also on VIA Rail's Montreal-Quebec City line, and AMT's Montreal-Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line. [edit] TransitSaint-Lambert is presently served by Réseau de transport de Longueuil, although it was once serviced by Chambly Transport and Société de transport de Montréal. Interurban streetcar service was operated until 1956 by the Montreal and Southern Counties Railway. Currently, the following RTL buses lines travel through Saint-Lambert:
[edit] Roads and Infrastructure Saint-Lambert is served by the most important autoroute in Québec province: Autoroute 20 . Saint-Lambert is also served by one of the most important provincial highway: Route 132. The Route 112 is also serving Saint-Lambert. Important Streets
Bridges In Saint-Lambert, two bridges link with Montreal (one to the Old Port and the other one, a bridge meant for bicycles, that connects to Île Notre-Dame). The Victoria Bridge links Saint-Lambert to Montreal Island. The Jacques Cartier Bridge in Longueuil is half a kilometre from Saint-Lambert and the Champlain Bridge in Brossard is a kilometre away from Saint-Lambert. [edit] Notable natives and residents
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Coordinates: 45°30′N 73°31′W / 45.5°N 73.517°W
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