| L'Île-Perrot | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Seal Size: | 100x80px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.3933°N -73.955°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Vaudreuil-Soulanges |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | July 1, 1855 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Pierre Séguin |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Vaudreuil-Soulanges |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Vaudreuil |
| Area Total Km2: | 5.50 |
| Area Land Km2: | 5.55 |
| Area Note: | There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources. |
| Population Total: | 10756 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Density Km2: | 1938.4 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 2.4% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 4831 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −05:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −04:00 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J7V |
| Area Code: | 514 and 438 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
The Town of Île-Perrot (French/official name: Ville de l'Île-Perrot) is a town and municipality on Île Perrot in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 10,756. The town is at the western end of Lake Saint-Louis, and borders the local island communities of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Pincourt and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot. It also includes Dowker Island and the small Claude and Bellevue Islands (Île Claude and Île Bellevue).
The island was granted on October 29, 1672, to François-Marie Perrot (1644-1691), captain in the Picardy Regiment and governor of Montreal in 1670. In 1786, the place received its first parish priest.
In 1845, the Municipality of l'Isle-Perrot was founded, abolished in 1847, and re-established in 1855 as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Jeanne-Chantal-de-l'Isle-Perrot (partially taking the name of the Sainte-Jeanne-Chantal Parish established there in 1832). In 1946, its name was changed to L'Île-Perrot, and in 1955, it changed statutes from parish municipality to ville.
In 1949, L'Île-Perrot greatly reduced in size when a large part of its territory was split off to form the new Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, L'Île-Perrot had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 5.46km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - L'Île-Perrot, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 6,840 | 7.1% | 66.31% | 2,140 | 31.3% | 20.75% | 185 | 85.0% | 1.79% | 1,150 | 57.5% | 11.15% | ||||||||
| 7,365 | 0.8% | 74.96% | 1,630 | 14.0% | 16.59% | 100 | 9.1% | 1.02% | 730 | 73.8% | 7.43% | ||||||||
| 7,305 | 0.1% | 78.85% | 1,430 | 8.3% | 15.43% | 110 | 15.8% | 1.19% | 420 | 33.3% | 4.53% | ||||||||
| 7,295 | n/a | 80.83% | 1,320 | n/a | 14.63% | 95 | n/a | 1.05% | 315 | n/a | 3.49% | ||||||||
List of former mayors:
Autoroute 20 runs through the town, with three at-grade intersections serving as exits. The east side of L'Île-Perrot is bordered by a branch of the Ottawa River with a crossing via Autoroute 20 over the Galipeault Bridge (Pont Galipeault) to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on Montreal Island.
There is a shuttle bus service operated by CIT La Presqu'Île connecting to the Île-Perrot station on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.
There are 3 francophone elementary schools (Virginie Roy, François-Perrot and La Perdriolle) and an adult education centre in L'Île-Perrot, all run by the Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs.[5]
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools. The community is zoned to Dorset Elementary School in Baie-d'Urfé.[6]