| Contrecœur | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Motto: | À cœur vaillant tout est possible |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec. |
| Coordinates: | 45.85°N -87°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Marguerite-D'Youville |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1681 |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | January 1, 1976 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Maud Allaire |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Verchères |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 87.60 |
| Area Land Km2: | 62.20 |
| Population Footnotes: | [4] |
| Population Total: | 9480 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 152.4 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 20.2% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 4252 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Contrecœur (in French pronounced as /kɔ̃tʁəkœʁ/) is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 9,480. Contrecœur is approximately 45km (28miles) northeast of Montreal and is accessible via Autoroute 30, the main road from the southwest, which continues on to Sorel-Tracy.
In 1672, Antoine Pécaudy de Contrecœur, a soldier of the Carignan-Salières Regiment, originally from Saint-Chef, Isère, France, was granted a seigneury by King Louis XIV. He and 68 other pioneers founded the town in 1681, and it is named in his honour. A migratory bird sanctuary is located near the town on Contrecœur Island. Contrecœur is currently twinned with Saint-Chef, in southeast France, and has been since 1993.
The steel mill in Contrecoeur-West was in 1994 privatised by the Quebec government. The initial owner of Norambar was Stelco, until Mittal purchased it in 2004. The steel mill in Contrecoeur-Est, Sidbec-Dosco, was privatised in 1994 into Ispat International. Mittal purchased that too, and merged with Arcelor to form ArcelorMittal in 2006.[5] The Contrecoeur-West and Contrecoeur-East were administratively merged into ArcelorMittal Long Products Canada.[6]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Contrecoeur had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 62.2km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
Population trend:[8]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Contrecœur, Quebec[9] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 8,900 | 18.0% | 94.3% | 120 | 20.0% | 1.3% | 80 | 128.6% | 0.8% | 265 | 82.8% | 2.8% | ||||||||
| 7,540 | 25.1% | 96.2% | 100 | 25.0% | 1.3% | 35 | 133.3% | 0.4% | 145 | 123.1% | 1.8% | ||||||||
| 6,025 | 11.3% | 96.41% | 80 | 128.6% | 1.29% | 15 | 62.5% | 0.24% | 65 | 27.8% | 1.05% | ||||||||
| 5,415 | 7.2% | 97.04% | 35 | 12.5% | 0.63% | 40 | n/a% | 0.72% | 90 | 100.0% | 1.61% | ||||||||
| 5,050 | 1.7% | 98.34% | 40 | 42.9% | 0.78% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | 45 | 80.0% | 0.88% | ||||||||
| 5,140 | n/a | 98.18% | 70 | n/a | 1.34% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 25 | n/a | 0.48% | ||||||||
Centre de services scolaire des Patriotes operates francophone public schools, including:
The Riverside School Board operates anglophone public schools, including: