Posted Apr 3, 2017, 7:42 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Montréal, QC <> Paris, FR
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I'll quote myself here from the recent « Which municipalities would you merge together» thread by YannickTO (p. 3 of this forum)
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Originally Posted by Laceoflight
Here's what I would envision for a re-unified Montreal island. A city of 2 011 778 inhabitants*, composed of 15 strong and relatively equal boroughs / arrondissements.
*All the population data is from Québec's Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Organisation du territoire 2017 population decree, for July 1, 2016.
The list of boroughs and populations could go as follows :
I _ Ville-Marie–Westmount (pop. 116 238)
Borough of Ville-Marie, City of Westmount
Gets Griffintown from Le Sud-Ouest
II _ Verdun–Le Sud-Ouest (pop. 145 208)
Borough of Verdun, Borough of Le Sud-Ouest
Loses Griffintown to Ville-Marie–Westmount
III _ Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (pop. 175 983)
Borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Town of Hampstead
Loses the Triangle and Blue Bonnets areas to St-Laurent-Mont-Royal-Côte-St-Luc
Gets the MacDonald ave. and Ciné-Dollar enclaves from Côte-St-Luc (everything south of the railroad)
IV _ Outremont–Le Plateau (pop. 130 754)
Borough of Outremont, Borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
V _ Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie (pop. 144 235)
Borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie
VI _ Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (pop. 140 750)
Borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
VII _ Anjou–Saint-Léonard (pop. 127 576)
Borough of Anjou, Borough of Saint-Léonard
VIII _ Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension (pop. 149 316)
Borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension
IX _ Saint-Laurent–Mont-Royal–Côte-Saint-Luc (pop. 158 858)
Borough of Saint-Laurent, Town of Mont-Royal, City of Côte-Saint-Luc
Gets the Triangle and Blue Bonnets areas + everything north of the railroad from CND-NDG
Loses Côte-St-Luc's MacDonald ave. and Ciné-Dollar enclaves to CDN-NDG
Loses everything north of the Deux-Montagnes transit line to Ahuntsic-Bordeaux-Cartierville
X _ Lachine–LaSalle (pop. 130 503)
Borough of Lachine, Borough of LaSalle, Town of Montréal-Ouest
XI _ Pointe-Claire–Dorval–Sainte-Anne (pop. 102 738)
City of Dorval, L'Île-Dorval, Town of Pointe-Claire, Town of Kirkland, Town of Beaconsfield, Town of Saint-Anne-de-Bellevue, Municipality of Senneville.
Gets its name from the 3 founding parishes of this area : Sainte-Anne, Pointe-Claire (Saint-Joachim) and Dorval (La Visitation). Kirkland and Beaconsfield were parts of Pointe-Claire for most of history.
XII _ Pierrefonds–L'Île-Bizard (pop. 142 918)
Borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro, Borough of L'Île-Bizard-Sainte-Geneviève, City of Dollard-Des Ormeaux
Gets its name from the 2 founding parishes of the area : Sainte-Geneviève-de-Pierrefonds (Ste-Geneviève, Pierrefonds, Roxboro, DDO) and Saint-Raphaël-de-l'Île-Bizard.
XIII _ Ahuntsic-Bordeaux-Cartierville (pop. 118 464)
Borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville
Loses Sault-au-Récollet to Sault-au-Récollet–Montréal-Nord
Gets the areas of Ville Saint-Laurent north of the Deux-Montagnes transit line.
The name Bordeaux is reintroduced. The new acronym becomes ABC.
XIV _ Sault-au-Récollet–Montréal-Nord (pop. 112 490)
Borough of Montréal-Nord
Gets Sault-au-Récollet from Ahuntsic-Cartierville
XV _ Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles (pop. 115 747)
Borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles, Town of Montréal-Est
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