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Originally Posted by Laceoflight
What's different for Sorel-Tracy, though, is that Tracy historically was a part of Sorel since 1642. It seperated from Sorel only in 1875, when it became the municipalité de paroisse of "St-Joseph-de-Sorel". The parish changed its name and regime to Town of Tracy only in 1954. The new city of Sorel-Tracy really should be Sorel, and it also should absorb the nearby town of St-Joseph-de-Sorel and the municipality of Ste-Anne-de-Sorel...
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Thanks, I didn't know that. And yes, Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel & Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel should definitely be amalgamated into actual Sorel-Tracy and becoming just Sorel ... I agree. Just imagine changing all the new flashy signs on highway 30 back to Sorel only. Sorel-Tracy & Vaudreuil-Dorion are written everywhere, all over the place.
What I meant was the naming of the areas. We're all used to say Sorel-Tracy by now, same goes with Rouyn-Noranda, Dolbeau-Mistassini, Chatham-Kent, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Saint-Lin-Laurentides, Vaudreuil-Dorion, etc etc. It's all names that we all seem to slowly incorporate in our daily lives... But I would go back to the historical name and change them, but that's just me.
I would personally amalgamate other ones, like both L'Épiphanie municipalities, or both Plessisville municipalities, or both Disraeli municipalities...
I would also create 2 municipalities on the north shore of Laval absorbing all these cities that are physically joined together (Boisbriand and company).
I would also amalgamate the 4 cities on south shore (Saint-Constant, Delson, Sainte-Catherine and Candiac), they are really one big entity (Roussillon).
Saint-Rémi and Saint-Michel also, south of Roussillon.
Beloeil and Joliette are 2 other infamous cities that each should amalgamate their neighbors.
So many possibilities. They made questionable mega mergers 15 years ago, but some obvious ones were never merged together.