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48-655: Collège Ahuntsic is a French-language public college situated in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough of Montreal , Quebec , Canada. It was founded in 1967 as a merger of the Collège Saint-Ignace and the Institut de technologies Laval , and in 1970 the Institut des arts graphiques du Quebec joined the college. Founded in 1967, when the Quebec system of CEGEPs was created, it is today one of

96-410: A 337-foot (103 m) tunnel. Motormen on this route were specially trained and strict safety procedures were used. The streetcars used on this route were equipped with an auxiliary braking system and powerful handbrakes in addition to their regular equipment. Both the 93-Remembrance and 11-Mountain routes were summer-only services. There were a number of other unique cars on the system especially in

144-446: A breezy ride during the hot and humid summers of Montreal. The cars operated on a 10-mile (16 km) counter-clockwise circuit around the three peaks of Mount Royal via Bleury, Park, Laurier, Côte Ste. Catherine, Bellingham, Maplewood, Decelles, Queen Mary, a private right-of-way between Queen Mary and Côte Saint Luc, Girouard, Sherbrooke, Atwater, St. Luke, Closse, Sainte Catherine, then back to Bleury. A second Golden Chariot route

192-462: A dog park, a community garden, water playground and large open-space field for outdoor seasonal events while Marcelin-Wilson Park has a swimming pool, tennis courts and soccer fields. The borough is also traversed by the Route Verte , a province-wide network of bicycle paths . The Complexe sportif Claude-Robillard , located at 1000 Émile-Journault Avenue, is one of the main sport complexes in

240-579: A publicly owned transportation authority. In 1950, legislation was passed to create the city-owned Montreal Transportation Commission, which would be charged with taking over the assets of the Montreal Tramways Company, which it officially did in June 1951. The Commission decided to convert all streetcar lines to buses within 10 years. To relieve traffic congestion, the newly established Montreal Transportation Commission decided to convert

288-501: A skill trade. Today, the college comprises three pre-university programs; 26 technical programs; 6000 regular education/full-time students and 4000 continuous education/part-time students; 900 employees, divided between 600 faculty members and 300 management and support staff. Usually, pre-university programs require four semesters (two years) to complete and lead to the obtention of a DEC . Usually, technical and career programs require six semesters (three years) to complete and lead to

336-514: A terminal technical degree, a diplôme d'études collégiales , or DEC. Work-study programs were created for students who wish to work part-time while completing a college diploma in a particular field of study. Although the programs usually require six semesters to complete, the time needed may be increased as a result of the part-time job. 45°33′7″N 73°38′35″W  /  45.55194°N 73.64306°W  / 45.55194; -73.64306 Ahuntsic-Cartierville Ahuntsic-Cartierville

384-513: Is located in the north end of Montreal, on the banks of the Rivière des Prairies . It traces its history to the fortified Sault-au-Récollet settlement, which was established by the Sulpicians in 1696. This in turn led to the colonization of the area. One of the oldest villages on the island of Montreal , Sault-au-Récollet still retains its village atmosphere with many houses dating from

432-896: Is located on Henri Bourassa Blvd, while Ahuntsic and Sauvé on the Mascouche line are near the Sauvé St. The Bois-Franc station on the Deux-Montagnes line is located on Henri Bourassa Blvd. in nearby Saint-Laurent . Two major Autoroutes are located in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Autoroute15 (Laurentian Autoroute/Autoroute des Laurentides) runs north-south and Autoroute 40 (Metropolitan Autoroute/Autoroute Métropolitaine) runs east-west. Main streets or boulevards include Henri-Bourassa, Fleury, Sauvé, L'Acadie, Chabanel, Gouin, Saint-Laurent, Saint-Denis, Salaberry. Sacré-Coeur Hospital and Fleury Hospital service

480-570: Is located, which in turn is named after a missionary called Ahuntsic , possibly of Huron (indigenous Canadian) origin, who lived in the early days of the new colony of Quebec . In 1970, the adjoining school, the Institut des arts graphiques du Quebec, which was a school of printing, joined the college. Following the lead of McGill University (with formerly the Redmen sport teams), the name "Indiens" (Indians) and its logo have been dropped from

528-592: The Montreal Metro 's Orange line which runs underneath Berri Street . Henri-Bourassa station located on Henri Bourassa Boulevard , Sauvé station located on Sauvé Street, and Crémazie station located on Crémazie Boulevard . The borough is also served by four commuter rail stations of the Réseau de transport métropolitain . Bois-de-Boulogne station and Chabanel station on the Saint-Jérôme line

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576-550: The Saint-Laurent , Acadie , and Crémazie electoral districts. The Collège de Bois-de-Boulogne and the Collège Ahuntsic are located in Ahuntsic-Cartierville. The Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) operates French-language public schools. The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) operates English-language schools. Ahuntsic-Cartierville is served by three stations on the north-eastern part of

624-629: The horsecar era of the Montreal City Passenger Railway in 1861. The initial line was along Rue Notre Dame (Notre Dame St) from Rue du Havre (Harbor St) to Rue McGill (McGill St) . The City Passenger Railway became the Montreal Street Railway in 1886. The decision to use electricity instead of horses for propulsion was made in 1892. On September 21 of that same year, " The Rocket ," Montreal's first electric streetcar made its maiden voyage. By 1894,

672-485: The 18th and 19th centuries. It was the original site of Fort Lorette, a trading post and mission for the conversion of the First Nations people of the area. It grew prosperous in the 18th century with the construction of a mill on the rapids on the Rivière des Prairies (from which the village derives its name: Sault-au-Récollet, or Recollet Falls). A dam was built on the narrow arm of the river that passes between

720-523: The Camillien Houde Parkway meet. The 93-Remembrance route was one of the shortest in the city, being only about three-quarters-mile (1.2 km) long from its western terminus at Remembrance and Côte des Neiges Roads. While the 93-Remembrance route was a relatively straight line to Summit Loop, the 11-Mountain route was far more challenging. The route up the east side of the mountain featured sharp curves, grades as steep as 10 percent and

768-605: The Legislature of Quebec in 1885 to run railway service in the suburbs of Montreal. They built lines to Lachine , St Laurent and Cartierville , and to Sault-au-Récollet . The company had an agreement with the Montreal Street Railway Co to allow MP&IR cars to run through to terminals in Montreal. The company was formed on 1893-12-27 and was eventually consolidated with other companies to form

816-447: The Montreal Street Railway constructed two open-topped sightseeing streetcars locally known as Golden Chariots. Seating was arranged in an ascending configuration (like a theatre's tiered seats) toward the rear to provide a commanding view of the sights. Two more vehicles were constructed in the 1920s. All cars are currently preserved in museums. Ostensibly for tourists, they were probably always more popular with Montrealers looking for

864-609: The Montreal Tramways Company in 1911 In 1911 a new corporate entity, the Montreal Tramways Company was formed consolidating the city streetcar routes of the Montreal Street Railway and the suburban routes of the Montreal Park & Island Railway and the Montreal Terminal Railway. The Montreal Tramways Company would own and operate the transportation system until the system was taken over by the city-owned Montreal Transportation Commission in 1951. Through

912-420: The area. The CLSC also responds to citizen's health care needs. Ahuntsic-Cartierville features large parks along its riverside, such as Île Perry and Parc de l' Île de la Visitation , which offer views of the river and of nearby Laval , Quebec. Ahuntsic Park and Marcelin-Wilson Park are the borough's main parks, which both have playgrounds, skate parks, and arenas housing ice skating rinks. Ahuntsic Park has

960-407: The city centre and not served by the company's streetcars. Traffic congestion was becoming a bigger problem, especially in the narrower streets of the older parts of downtown Montreal. The company's 30-year contract with the city was also coming to an end in 1948. For all of these reasons, the company was reluctant to spend money on expansion and modernization. Instead they would sell their assets to

1008-1024: The city. The Cartierville area to the west was formerly the home of the Belmont Park amusement park. The Orioles de Montréal baseball team of the Ligue de Baseball Élite du Québec play their home games at Gary Carter Stadium (formerly Marcel-Clement Field) located in Ahuntsic Park . The borough has three libraries of the Montreal Public Libraries Network : Ahuntsic (adults and children), Cartierville (adults and children) and De Salaberry (children's only). 45°32′06″N 73°42′18″W  /  45.5350°N 73.7050°W  / 45.5350; -73.7050 Montreal Park and Island Railway Prior to 1959, Montreal, Quebec , Canada had an extensive streetcar system. The streetcar network had its beginnings with

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1056-524: The college's sports teams to be replaced by Les Aigles (The Eagles) in 2020. The CEGEP offers two types of programs: pre-university and technical. The pre-university programs, which take two years to complete, cover the subject matters which roughly correspond to the additional year of high school (grade 12) and the first year of university given elsewhere in Canada. The technical programs, which take three-years to complete, applies to students who wish to pursue

1104-614: The company only used the Golden Chariots on the spectacular mountain right-of-way for occasional charter trips. The Mount Royal streetcar private right-of-way would later become the Camillien Houde Parkway for automobiles. Service was normally provided by the regular cars of the 11-Mountain route from the east, and the 93-Remembrance route from the west. Both routes met at Summit Loop near today's Beaver Lake ( Lac des Castors ) Pavilion where Remembrance Road and

1152-552: The curb instead of stopping traffic in the middle of the street. They were still dependent on overhead trolley wires. Their passenger capacity was also less than the larger streetcars. Although all streetcar lines had been converted to buses by 1959, traffic congestion had not improved as hoped. City traffic engineers came up with a plan to turn many major streets into one-way thoroughfares, which would affect several trolley bus routes. Trolley buses by this time had fallen out of favour with transit companies, and new North American equipment

1200-445: The earlier years. The Montreal Street Railway, and later the Montreal Tramways Company, operated a smaller two-axle vehicle used as a rolling stage for the company's employee band. A prison car with no side windows was used to take miscreants between the downtown courthouse and the outlying Bordeaux Prison before roads were improved. The streetcar fleet also included two funeral cars, the second and larger of which saw heavy use during

1248-640: The early days, the Montreal City Passenger Railway used horse-drawn sleighs in the winter and horsecars in the summer. In the muddy seasons in between, omnibuses were used. With the coming of electric cars in 1892, the Montreal Street Railway and later the Montreal Tramways Co began to buy a variety of electric car types: In the 1930s, as streetcar lines were being converted to buses, some lines were converted to electric trolley buses. And order for seven AEC 664Ts

1296-571: The event. Many of the outlying routes, especially those running on private rights-of-way , lasted the longest. The city's last streetcars operated on August 30, 1959, after which Montreal was served solely by buses until the Metro opened in October 1966. A parade similar to the one in 1956 was held to mark the occasion. A four-route network of electric trolley buses continued operating until 1966 at which point they were converted to Diesel. In 1905,

1344-414: The influenza epidemic of 1918. They were used to carry caskets to the outlying Hawthorndale Cemetery, which was beyond the reach of good roads at the time. The funeral cars only carried caskets with the mourners having to take regular streetcars. Montreal also used trolleybuses . Introduced in 1937, they were seen as having some advantages over streetcars. Unlike streetcars, they could load and unload at

1392-417: The inner city routes first. Many of Montreal's streetcar routes included running on a portion of Sainte Catherine Street (Rue Sainte-Catherine) downtown. On some downtown sections of this street, there was a headway of 10 seconds or less between streetcars but by the end of August 1956, streetcar service on the street had come to an end. A parade of streetcars and historical equipment was held to commemorate

1440-488: The largest CÉGEPs in Quebec. The college was created out of the amalgamation of two former institutions: the Collège Saint-Ignace and the Institut de technologies Laval, founded respectively in 1927 and 1941. The Collège Saint-Ignace taught the humanities , whereas the Institut de technologies de Laval offered the main trade programs of the era. The name of the new college comes from the district in which it

1488-453: The new village operated until 1910, when the province passed laws creating the charter of the City of Montreal. It was then annexed and later combined with Nouveau-Bordeaux, forming the district of Ahuntsic-Bordeaux. The city of Cartierville and Sault-au-Récollet were added in 1918. In 1952, following a land exchange , Ahuntsic took over part of Saint-Laurent . The Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough

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1536-502: The oldest churches in Montreal, which is a listed historical monument. Cartierville grew as a suburb when it became in 1898 the north terminus of the Montreal Park and Island Railway tramway line, also known as the "17-Cartierville". Named in the honor of Sir George-Étienne Cartier, it became a village officially in 1906. During December 1912, it achieved city status. Two years later, the rural and agricultural part of Cartierville

1584-412: The province of Quebec. The borough is located in the northern part of Montreal along the banks of the Rivière des Prairies , and includes some islands in the river such as Île aux Chats, Île Perry , and Île de la Visitation . It is bounded to the east by Montréal-Nord , to the southeast by the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension , to the southwest by the borough of Saint-Laurent , and to

1632-555: The remaining horsecar lines had all been converted to accommodate the new electrically powered streetcars. The Montreal Street Railway was known as one of the most innovative and progressive in North America. One of its innovations was the introduction of the "Pay As You Enter" (P.A.Y.E.) system of fare collection in 1905. Prior to that time, conductors would walk through the car collecting fares meaning many passengers probably rode for free on very crowded cars. The P.A.Y.E. system

1680-408: The streetcar track network had shrunk even further. Contrary to popular belief, the Golden Chariots never operated in regular service over Mount Royal, the small 764-foot-high (233 m) mountain that is the city's namesake. It was found that if passengers stood in some areas of the upper tiers of the Golden Chariots, there was not enough of a safety clearance in the tunnel on that line. Therefore,

1728-412: The track, the overhead trolley wires and the streetcars themselves. There was also much more competition. Manufacturing of automobiles for the civilian market started up again and after the deprivations of the war, many people began to buy one, including former streetcar passengers. Streetcar passenger numbers were starting to fall. The automobile encouraged the development of new neighborhoods further from

1776-543: The village and Visitation Island, which splits the river in two at that point. A museum and cultural centre, the Maison du Pressoir, perpetuates this memory. A hydroelectric dam was built later and still exists further down the river. The village and Île de la Visitation (Visitation Island) are surrounded by the green space of the Parc-Nature de l'Île de la Visitation . The village is noted for Visitation Church, one of

1824-447: The war years (1939 to 1945), Montreal's streetcar system carried huge passenger loads with workers commuting to busy factories supplying the war effort. Every available streetcar was put into service. The company even bought several streetcars from U.S. systems that were converting to buses. Even private automobile owners were taking streetcars as rationing made gasoline and tires difficult to get. Most manufacturing of private automobiles

1872-411: The west by the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro . It has an area of 22.92 km and a population of 127,000. The boundary between Ahuntsic and Cartierville is Autoroute 15 . The borough's office is located at 555, rue Chabanel West, Montreal. The territory is divided into four districts. Federally, the borough is in the riding of Ahuntsic-Cartierville . Provincially, the borough is divided between

1920-463: Was adopted worldwide by many other transit companies. The company also designed and built two open sightseeing (another two were built later) cars that were in service until the late 1950s. The designs of those sightseeing cars were sold to transit companies in Quebec City, Calgary and Vancouver, who all built their own versions of the car. The Montreal Park and Island Railway was incorporated by

1968-472: Was established in the late 1940s. That followed a counter-clockwise route along Ste. Catherine, Delorimier, Mount Royal Avenue, Park, Laurier, Côte Ste. Catherine, Bellingham, Maplewood, Decelles, Queen Mary, Côte des Neiges, and back to Ste. Catherine. This second route lasted only a few years being discontinued when streetcar service ended on Côte des Neiges in 1955. By 1956, the original and remaining Golden Chariot route had to be adjusted as streetcar trackage

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2016-443: Was granted independence from the city and was then known as Ville de Saraguay . On 22 December 1916, the provincial government ordered the annexation of Cartierville to Montreal. The district was famous for the Belmont Park amusement park which operated from 1929 to the 1980s. New Bordeaux (or simply Bordeaux) was originally part of the independent village of Cartierville until it became its own municipality in 1898. The district

2064-426: Was halted about halfway through the war years so assembly plants could concentrate on military vehicles. The Montreal Tramways Company had its own difficulties in getting material and some maintenance had to be deferred. The heavy wartime traffic and deferred maintenance took its toll. The Montreal Tramways Company faced major challenges at the end of the war. There was much rehabilitation work that had to be done to

2112-561: Was harder to get. Montreal's Brill trolley buses were quickly approaching the end of their economic service lives. As a result of all of these factors, the Commission decided to end trolley bus service in 1966. Two of the four trolley bus routes were converted to diesel buses in April while the last two trolley bus routes were converted to diesel buses in June. Montreal's new subway, the Metro, would open just four months later in October. In

2160-510: Was originally named Saint-Joseph de Bordeaux until 1906. One year later, Bordeaux attained city status. On June 4, 1910, it was annexed by the larger City of Montreal. The district was home to Maurice Richard , writer Claude Jasmin and Comte Daeylar. The municipality of the Village of Ahuntsic was founded on January 21, 1897, by a proclamation of the Quebec provincial government. The council of

2208-400: Was part of the City of Montreal prior to January 1, 2002. For further reading on pre-merger Montreal, see Karen Herland's book "People, Potholes and Politics". In 1914, the rural and agricultural part of the city of Cartierville became independent, forming its own city. It was only in 1964, that Saraguay joined itself to the City of Montreal under law 2926 approved by the lieutenant-governor of

2256-682: Was placed and, later, 80 of the model T-44 and 25 of the model T-44A were purchased from Canadian Car & Foundry . In February 2006, Montreal mayor Gérald Tremblay suggested the city look into a return of the streetcar into the heart of the city, following a visit to Paris , where new service started in 1992. In early 2012, the STM announced a plan to convert its entire fleet of buses over to all-electric by 2025. Beginning in 2012, all STM bus purchases will be either hybrids or electrics and, starting in 2011, Montreal will begin testing trolley buses (electric buses powered by overhead wires) on some of

2304-408: Was reduced. When streetcar service ended on Sherbrooke and Ste. Catherine at the end of August 1956, cars were rerouted. Instead of turning east from Girouard to Sherbrooke, they continued south on Girouard to Upper Lachine Road , then Saint-Antoine to Bleury and Park . They last ran in regular service in the summer of 1957 although they could still be chartered in the summer of 1958. By then, however,

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