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20-482: Vaudreuil-Soulanges may refer to: Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality , Quebec Vaudreuil—Soulanges (federal electoral district) , a federal electoral district coterminal with the aforementioned Regional County Municipality Vaudreuil-Soulanges (provincial electoral district) , a former provincial electoral district in Quebec Topics referred to by

40-509: A population density of 116.8 people/km (303 people/sq mi). The population of both of these reserves are majority- Mohawk , one of the historic Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee , or Iroquois League. Kahnawake was established south of Montreal in 1719 as a mission village. Akwesasne was established upriver by Mohawk leaders and their families in the mid-18th century, accompanied by French Jesuit missionaries . Akwesasne spans

60-569: Is McMasterville , and the president is Arthur Fauteux. Its territory occupies 7,122.92 square kilometres (2,750.17 sq mi) and there are 656,287 inhabitants, with a population density of 92.1 people/km (239 people/sq mi). There are five RCMs in Vallée-du-Haut-Saint-Laurent. Its seat is Salaberry-de-Valleyfield , and its president is Yves Daoust. Its territory occupies 3,727.22 square kilometres (1,439.09 sq mi) and there are 435,436 inhabitants, with

80-641: Is based on agriculture and the production of goods and services . Tourism also makes up a significant portion of the economy. Jacques Cartier named Mont Royal in October 1535. Samuel de Champlain built several forts to protect the colonists against the Iroquois from south of the Great Lakes , and against the English , who were colonizing New England to the southeast. The toponym comes from

100-461: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality 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

120-637: 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 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

140-714: 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 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

160-660: 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 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

180-582: The Latinized form of Mount Royal, mons regius . Montérégie is named for the Monteregian Hills , which are, in turn, named for Mont Royal (English: Mount Royal ). The term for naming the set of hills in the St. Lawrence Plain was originally created in 1903 in English by geologist Frank Dawson Adams to designate a new petrographic province . Mount Royal on Montreal Island , although outside

200-785: The Montérégie region, is one of the Monteregian Hills. In addition to Mount Royal, two other Montérégie hills are not located in Montérégie: Mount Mégantic , in Estrie , and the hills of Oka, in the Lower Laurentians. Montérégie was populated by the St. Lawrence Iroquoian people when the French began to colonize here in the early 16th century. Later colonists found their villages abandoned, and

220-560: The area controlled as hunting grounds by the nations of the Iroquoian Confederacy based south of the Great Lakes . Some of the later battles among the European-Canadians that decided the destiny of Canada took place in Montérégie. For instance, in the 1830s, ethnic French patriots rebelled against British government troops. The Province of Canada (also called a United Canada ( French : Canada-Uni ))

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240-481: The communities along the Ottawa River, and Soulanges County -- (named after Pierre-Jacques Joybert de Soulanges from Soulanges, Marne , France ) for 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

260-602: 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 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

280-497: 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 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

300-487: 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, 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

320-414: The municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: Mont%C3%A9r%C3%A9gie The region had a population of 1,507,070 as of the 2016 census and a land area of 11,132.34 square kilometres (4,298.22 sq mi), giving it a population density of 135.4 inhabitants per square kilometre (351 inhabitants/sq mi). With approximately 18.5% of

340-591: The province's population, it is the second most populous region of Quebec after Montreal . The majority of the population lives near the Saint Lawrence River , on the south shore of Montreal . Montérégie is known for its vineyards , orchards , panoramas, products, and the Monteregian mountains. The region is both urban (second in terms of population in Quebec) and rural . The regional economy

360-562: The region was conducted by three regional conferences of elected officers ( French : Conférences régionales des élus ) (CRE) separate and independent in their territory: Each sub-region was organized in the same way as other administrative regions of Quebec. There are 12 regional county municipalities and one equivalent territory in Montérégie. In 2021, Brome-Missisquoi and La Haute-Yamaska transferred to Estrie . As of 2021, there are seven RCMs in Montérégie Est . Its seat

380-435: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vaudreuil-Soulanges . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vaudreuil-Soulanges&oldid=1227746469 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

400-517: Was formed through the Union Act in 1840 and February 1841, from the former provinces of Lower Canada and Upper Canada . Originally, the administrative territory of the Montérégie parishes were taken from the territory of the canonical Diocese of Saint-Jean-Longueuil . The Montérégie has three administrative subregions, each consisting of its own regional county municipalities (RCM) or equivalent territories. The territorial administration of

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