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Mont-Saint-Hilaire
City
Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Location within La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM.
Mont-Saint-HilaireLocation in southern Quebec.
Coordinates: 45°33′44″N 73°11′30″W / 45.56222°N 73.19167°W / 45.56222; -73.19167
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montérégie
RCM	La Vallée-du-Richelieu
Constituted	12 March 1966
Government
• Mayor	Marc-André Guertin
• Federal riding	Beloeil—Chambly
• Prov. riding	Borduas
Area
• Total	45.50 km (17.57 sq mi)
• Land	44.08 km (17.02 sq mi)
Population
• Total	18,859
• Density	427.8/km (1,108/sq mi)
• Pop 2016–2021	1.5%
• Dwellings	7,917
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J3H
Area code(s)	450 and 579
Highways A-20 (TCH)	R-116 R-133
Website	www.villemsh.ca

Mont-Saint-Hilaire (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃ sɛ̃t‿ilɛʁ]) is a suburb of Montreal on the South Shore of southeastern Quebec, Canada, on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 18,859. The city is named after the Mont Saint-Hilaire.

A significant deposit of the semi-precious mineral sodalite is located near Mont-Saint-Hilaire.

History

Jean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville was granted the seignory of the region in 1694. By 1745 a mountain village had been formed with the first chapel being built in 1798 near the Richelieu River. Nearly twenty years later, in 1822, a ferry operating between Beloeil and Mont-Saint-Hilaire came into service. A bridge, enabling Beloeil and St. Hilaire to be connected by rail, was built in 1848 by the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Railway. The Campbell family, owners of the mountain after that of Rouville, sold the mountain to a British officer, Brigadier-General Andrew Gault, in whose ownership it remained for 45 years. Gault then bequeathed the mountain to McGill University before his death in 1958.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mont-Saint-Hilaire had a population of 18,859 living in 7,766 of its 7,917 total private dwellings, a change of 1.5% from its 2016 population of 18,585. With a land area of 44.08 km (17.02 sq mi), it had a population density of 427.8/km (1,108.1/sq mi) in 2021.

Population trend: Census Population Change (%) 2021 18,859 1.5% 2016 18,585 2.1% 2011 18,200 15.8% 2006 15,720 10.2% 2001 14,270 9.2% 1996 13,064 6.5% 1991 12,267 15.9% 1986 10,588 5.2% 1981 10,066 30.9% 1976 7,688 33.5% 1971 5,758 N/A

Mother tongue language (2021) Language Population Pct (%) French only 17,025 91.5% English only 565 3.0% Both English and French 260 1.4% Other languages 665 3.6%

Attractions

• The Gault Nature Reserve on Mont Saint-Hilaire includes over a thousand hectares of primeval forest. Owned by McGill University, the nature reserve is used for research and recreation.
• The Museum of Fine Arts (Le Musée des beaux-arts) of Mont-Saint-Hilaire is the major art museum on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. It was founded in 1993 to promote the work of regional artists Jordi Bonet, Paul-Émile Borduas and Ozias Leduc. Exhibitions also feature art from the area, such as Saint-Hilaire et les Automatistes in 1997, and Leduc, Borduas et le paysage de Saint-Hilaire in 2008, as well as other Quebec artists such as Jean-Paul Lemieux and Nancy Petry.
• Art Station
• Art centre Ozias Leduc
• Manoir Rouville-Campbell
• Saint-Hilaire church

Infrastructure

Mont-Saint-Hilaire is served by the Mont-Saint-Hilaire commuter rail station on the Réseau de transport métropolitain's (RTM) Mont-Saint-Hilaire line. Local bus service is provided by the RTM's Vallée du Richelieu sector.

In 1864, Canada's worst rail disaster occurred here when a passenger train passed a red signal and fell off an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River, killing around 99 people.

Education

The town is home to 4 primary schools: Au-fil-de-l'eau (659 pupils), de l'Aquarelle (354 pupils) and de la Pommeraie (383 pupils) and Paul-Émile-Borduas. There are also 2 secondary schools, including Ozias-Leduc, with 1,480 students and Collège Saint-Hilaire, a private high school that receives students from the region.

The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board previously served the municipality.

Notable people

• Louis Domingue, ice hockey player most recently for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League
• Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, football player most recently for the New York Jets of the National Football League

Photo gallery

• Reception arch in front of the town hall of Saint-Hilaire
• View of Mont Saint-Hilaire, the intersection of boulevard Honorius-Charbonneau and rue du Centre-Civique
• Mont Saint-Hilaire (Quebec) seen from the train station parking lot in winter 2022.
• Wayside cross in Mont-Saint-Hilaire (corner of Chemin des Patriotes and rue de Lisbonne)

See also

• List of cities in Quebec
• St-Hilaire train disaster
• Jordi-Bonet Bridge

References

1. "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 42205". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
2. ^ "Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire: Mont-Saint-Hilaire". Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
3. Parliament of Canada Federal Riding History: CHAMBLY—BORDUAS (Quebec)
4. ^ 2021 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
5. Charlotte Gray 'The Museum Called Canada: 25 Rooms of Wonder' Random House, 2004
6. "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. 9 February 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2022.
7. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2021 census
8. 2021 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec
9. "Le Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire website". Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
10. "Le Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire website". Archived from the original on 23 March 2016. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
11. "Public schools of Mont-Saint-Hilaire, CSP". Archived from the original on 19 May 2010. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
12. Collège Saint-Hilaire
13. King, M.J. (Chairperson of the board). "South Shore Protestant Regional School Board" (St. Johns, PQ). The News and Eastern Townships Advocate. Volume 119, No. 5. Thursday 16 December 1965. p. 2. Retrieved from Google News on 23 November 2014.

External links

• Town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire

v t e Adjacent Municipal Subdivisions
Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil Richelieu River Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu Beloeil / Richelieu River Mont-Saint-Hilaire Sainte-Marie-Madeleine Otterburn Park Saint-Mathias-sur-Richelieu Saint-Jean-Baptiste

v t e  Subdivisions of La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality
Cities	Beloeil Carignan Chambly McMasterville Mont-Saint-Hilaire Otterburn Park Saint-Basile-le-Grand
Municipalities	Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu Saint-Charles-sur-Richelieu Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu Saint-Jean-Baptiste Saint-Marc-sur-Richelieu Saint-Mathieu-de-Beloeil
Regional County Municipalities in Montérégie: Acton Beauharnois-Salaberry Brome-Missisquoi La Haute-Yamaska La Vallée-du-Richelieu Le Haut-Richelieu Le Haut-Saint-Laurent Les Jardins-de-Napierville Les Maskoutains Marguerite-D'Youville Pierre-De Saurel Roussillon Rouville Vaudreuil-Soulanges Urban Agglomerations: Longueuil (TE) Native Reserves: Akwesasne Kahnawake

• Cities and towns in Quebec
• Incorporated places in La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality
• Greater Montreal