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17-667: Vaudreuil-Soulanges ( French pronunciation: [vodʁœj sulɑ̃ʒ] ) is a regional county municipality in Quebec , Canada. It is located on a triangular peninsula in the western Montérégie region of Quebec , formed by the confluence of the Ottawa River to the north, and the St. Lawrence River to the south. Ontario is located west of here. Vaudreuil-Soulanges is part of the St Lawrence Valley . Two million years ago

34-790: A century after Great Britain took over the territory after defeating France in the Seven Years' War. It is the only county in Quebec that lies both south of the Ottawa River and north of the St. Lawrence River. Great Britain wanted to keep most of the French-speaking, ethnic French population of the area within Lower Canada during the 1791 division of Upper and Lower Canada (precursors to the provinces of Ontario and Quebec ). It

51-405: A unique five-digit geographical code. The first two digits are the code of the census division in which the municipality is located. For a list of all municipalities in Quebec together with their legal status , geographical code and date of incorporation, see List of the official municipalities of Québec , Institut de la Statistique du Québec (ISQ). The ISQ includes the six Indian settlements in

68-560: Is divided into 98 CDs, each of which is assigned a unique two-digit geographical code. For the most part, Census Divisions consist of a single RCM or TE (territory equivalent to an RCM), exactly as defined above. The only exceptions are five census divisions divided into 11 RCMs or TEs, two or three each. For a list, see List of regional county municipalities and equivalent territories in Quebec used as census divisions . All local municipalities, equivalent Aboriginal territories, Indian settlements and unorganized territories in Quebec are assigned

85-498: Is geographically isolated from the Montérégie region south of the St. Lawrence. The name relates to the historical division of the area into two counties: Vaudreuil County -- (named after Pierre François de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnal , governor of New France ) for the communities along the Ottawa River, and Soulanges County -- (named after Pierre-Jacques Joybert de Soulanges from Soulanges, Marne , France ) for

102-418: Is usually elected by and from the council by secret ballot. Universal suffrage may also be used. The warden's term is two years when elected by council or four years when elected by universal suffrage. A MRC must: RCMs, in their definition as political units, do not cover the entire territory of Quebec. The local municipalities of Quebec (and equivalent Aboriginal territories) not belonging to an RCM fall into

119-520: The Champlain sea . Once the glacier was melted, the land rose again, pushing the saltwater into the sea. 10,000 years ago the body of water, now a fresh water lake, has been named by scholars as Lake Lampsilis . During the French colonial period, the region of New France was divided into several seigneuries populated by French colonists. The seigneurial system was finally abolished in 1854, nearly

136-613: The RCM: The region is served by the Exo La Presqu’Île and Exo Sud-Ouest bus services as well as the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line. Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: Regional county municipality Regional county municipalities are a supralocal type of regional municipality , and act as

153-509: The Soulanges area (including the municipalities of Saint-Polycarpe , Saint-Zotique , Coteau-du-Lac , Rivière-Beaudette and Les Coteaux ) is predominantly rural, agricultural, and ethnically French-Canadian . Owing to the county's geographic isolation within Quebec, and its growing population as a suburb of the city of Montreal , Elections Canada assigned the electoral district to the county in 1997. There are 23 subdivisions within

170-529: The communities along the St. Lawrence. Soulanges is a name of Québécois derivation, referring to its southerliness. Since the RCM formation on 14 April 1982, the division of the county into "Vaudreuil" and "Soulanges" is still salient. The "Vaudreuil" area (consisting of the municipalities of Vaudreuil-Dorion , Saint-Lazare , Hudson , L'Île-Perrot , and others) is closer to Montreal. It is more suburban, populous, and economically and ethnically diverse. By contrast,

187-464: The following categories: For provincial statistical purposes, the Institut de la Statistique du Québec uses the following system so that the entire territory of Quebec is divided into 104 units known as municipalités régionales de comté géographiques (MRCG) "geographical regional county municipalities". Indian reserves which would, but for their status as Indian reserves, belong to a certain RCM in

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204-573: The list, whereas the Répertoire des municipalités of the Ministère des Affaires municipales et régionales does not list them as separate from the legal municipalities or unorganized territories in which they are located. Both sources include all other types of Aboriginal communities. La Presqu%27%C3%8Ele sector Exo , the public transit agency for greater Montreal , provides local bus service through its La Presqu'Île sector within

221-552: The local municipality in unorganized territories within their borders. The system of regional county municipalities was introduced beginning in 1979 to replace the historic counties of Quebec . In most cases, the territory of an RCM corresponds to that of a census division ; however, there are a few exceptions. Some local municipalities are outside any regional county municipality ( hors MRC ). This includes some municipalities within urban agglomerations and also some aboriginal lands, such as Indian reserves that are enclaves within

238-463: The political sense are included in the geographical RCM corresponding to that RCM. There are 86 MRCGs of this kind, one for each RCM. The rest of the province is grouped into 16 " territories equivalent to an RCM " (French: territoires équivalents à une MRC or territoires équivalents , abbreviated TÉ ), which are also considered to be MRCGs. This is done as follows. Census divisions (CDs) are used for statistical purposes by Statistics Canada. Quebec

255-488: The region was subject to a series of glaciations that covered much of North America. The last in the series was the Wisconsin glaciation . The ice sheet weighed down the landscape. This created the depressions in the land that created the basins for Lake Saint-Louis , Lac des Deux-Montagnes and Lake Saint-Francis . As the ice sheet eroded, the region was mostly submerged 12,000 years ago by an inland saltwater sea known as

272-454: The territory of an RCM but not juridically part of it. Where complete territorial coverage is desired, for example for the census, the Indian reserve enclaves are added in to create "geographical RCMs", and the urban agglomerations are considered to be "territories equivalent to an RCM". The council of a RCM is composed of the mayors of the member municipalities as well as the warden. The warden

289-670: The western suburbs of Montreal that lie along the south side of the Ottawa River in the regional county municipality of Vaudreuil-Soulanges , Quebec, Canada. All bus routes connect the residents of the communities of Hudson , Vaudreuil-Dorion , Pincourt , L'Île-Perrot , Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot , Saint-Lazare and Rigaud to stations on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line. Bus service in this region made its debut in May 2005 through CIT La Presqu'Île ( French : Conseil intermunicipal de transport La Presqu'Île , lit.   'The Presqu'Île Intercity Transit Commission') when

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