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25-534: Ahuntsic-Cartierville 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

50-462: 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

75-525: A report on the water pollution in the late 1950s, and the report was given to Premier Barrette . Montreal has six drinking-water plants on the Island whose source of water is the Rivière des Prairies and Lac Saint Louis . Reportedly, Montreal and Quebec city drinking water is tested. It is claimed modern sewage treatment techniques have reversed much of the damage from the sewage. Some people consider

100-896: 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

125-804: The Island of Montreal ( Montreal ) to the south from Île Jésus ( Laval ) to the north, after which it flows into the St. Lawrence River at the eastern tip of the Island of Montreal. The river contains a large number of islands, including Île Bizard, the Îles Laval ( Île Bigras , Île Pariseau , Île Verte and Île Ronde) belonging to Laval, and Île de la Visitation , a nature park belonging to Montreal. There are also islands named Île Mercier, Île Ménard, Île Jasmin, Île Barwick, Île de Roxboro, Île aux Chats, Île Paton, Île Perry, Île Lapierre, Île Boutin, Île Rochon and Île Gagné, among many others. The Rivière des Prairies has many rapids . Rapids are shown in several places on

150-592: 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

175-547: 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

200-517: The 1879 map of Henry Whitmersome Hopkins, and on Gordon and Gotch's map of the Island of Montreal from 1924. Named rapids of the river, starting from the west, are the "Rapides de Cap-Saint-Jacques", the Lalemant(Dutchman) Rapids that are located between Île Bizard and Laval ( with a ferry ), the " Rapides du Cheval Blanc "(Whitehorse rapids) that are located in between the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Sainte-Dorothée ,

225-485: 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

250-539: The Laval rapids, the " Sault-au-Récollet Rapids" that are located north of Bordeaux Prison , and ending with the "Rapides de la Rivière des Prairies". The riverfront in the West Island area was famous for its beaches along the river. Some were named "Crystal", "Noel/Roy", "Riviera", and Roxboro municipal beach The river receives massive discharges of untreated liquid waste from metropolitan Montreal and

275-829: The Prairies ' ), called the Back River in English, is a delta channel of the Ottawa River in southwestern Quebec , Canada . The Kanien'kehá:ka called it Skowanoti , meaning "River behind the island". The river separates the cities of Laval and Montreal . Flowing west to east, the Rivière des Prairies bisects the Hochelaga Archipelago and originates in the Lake of Two Mountains . It flows on either side of Île Bizard (part of Montreal), then divides

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300-419: 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

325-994: 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 Rivi%C3%A8re des Prairies The Rivière des Prairies ( pronounced [ʁivjɛʁ de pʁɛʁi] ; lit.   ' River of

350-453: 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

375-437: The newly developed suburbs by way of over 150 discharge outlets. Whenever there is significant rainfall on the island of Montreal, household sewage is mixed with the city street rainwater and discharged untreated into the river. This sewage turns the river into essentially an open sewer. The sewage problem was reported in the year 1911., and a need to purify Montreal sewage in 1935. The Montreal Board of Trade (BOT) commissioned

400-558: 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

425-411: 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

450-502: The river clean again, starting in the year 1998, when most of the sewage was treated before being discharged. However, parts of the river are never suitable for swimming . Specifically the location of R.D.P. 140, the Rive-Boisée area has been polluted since the year 1971 is still polluted from raw sewage more than forty years later . The Rive-Boisée problem had been noticed and was reported to be repaired in 2014. The reason for

475-423: The sewage problem is that the storm sewer drain system and the sanitary sewer system were mistakenly connected in many places, and it takes money to correct and repair. Reports from the R.S.M.A.(Réseau de suivi du milieu aquatique) dated 2021 on the water quality of RDP-140 indicate the problem has not been fixed. From Bing maps, many of the sewage output locations can be seen on the river shoreline. The solution to

500-543: 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

525-411: The visible pollution (plastic bags, toilet paper, condoms) that accumulates on the shoreline is to use a type of a screen at all the storm drains and outlets that expel the rainwater-garbage mixture into the river. 45°35′22″N 73°39′26″W  /  45.58944°N 73.65722°W  / 45.58944; -73.65722 Quebec Autoroute 15 Too Many Requests If you report this error to

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550-410: 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

575-443: 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

600-510: 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

625-400: 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

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