| Mascouche | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Blank Emblem Size: | 100x90px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.75°N -109°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Lanaudière |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Les Moulins |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | July 1, 1855 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Guillaume Tremblay |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Montcalm |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Masson |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Area Total Km2: | 107.70 |
| Area Land Km2: | 106.89 |
| Population Footnotes: | [3] |
| Population Total: | 51183 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 478.8 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016–2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 9.6% |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J7K, J7L |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Mascouche is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southern Quebec, Canada. The city is located on the Mascouche River within the Les Moulins Regional County Municipality and has a population of 51,183,[4] ranking 20th among Quebec municipalities.[5]
The name comes from Algonquin word Algonquian languages: maskutchew meaning "bear plain" in singular. Compare plural form to Algonquian languages: maskutew for the Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality located nearby.
Mascouche (then known as Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche)[6] received city status on December 9, 1970, under mayor Gilles Forest.
On June 21, 2021, the city was struck by an EF2 tornado, killing one person.
Montréal/Mascouche Airport, the largest regional airport in Quebec, was three kilometres southeast of the city. It has now been replaced by the CentrOparc, a business district with the ambition of joining a transit-oriented urban development (DOT).
Autoroutes 640 and 25, both major national transportation routes, meet just south of the centre of the city.
Mascouche is connected to Montreal's Central Station by commuter rail via the Mascouche station of the Réseau de transport métropolitain's Mascouche line.
L'Étang-du-Grand-Coteau, an urban park situated in the city centre on Mascouche Boulevard, has the same area as Mount Royal Park in Montreal.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mascouche had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 106.89km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[7]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Mascouche, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 42 740 | 7.03% | 92.10% | 1 150 | 12.17% | 2.47% | 355 | 120.0% | 0.76% | 1 840 | 39.39% | 3.96% | ||||||||
| 39,580 | 25.8% | 93.82% | 1,010 | 5.2% | 2.39% | 275 | 29.09% | 0.65% | 1,320 | 26.3% | 3.13% | ||||||||
| 31,470 | 13.4% | 93.66% | 960 | 17.1% | 2.86% | 125 | 40.5% | 0.37% | 1,045 | 111.1% | 3.11% | ||||||||
| 27,760 | 5.0% | 94.79% | 820 | 9.4% | 2.80% | 210 | 82.6% | 0.72% | 495 | 3.1% | 1.69% | ||||||||
| 26,430 | n/a | 94.63% | 905 | n/a | 3.24% | 115 | n/a | 0.41% | 480 | n/a | 1.72% | ||||||||
The Commission scolaire des Affluents operates Francophone public schools. They include:
Primary schools:
Secondary schools :
One professional school, École L'Impact.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates Anglophone public schools:
Mascouche is the hometown of baseball player Éric Gagné.
It is also Émilie Mondor's hometown, a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres.