| Pointe-des-Cascades | |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Coordinates: | 45.3333°N -131°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | May 1, 1961 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Peter Zytynsky |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Salaberry—Suroît |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Soulanges |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 9.98 |
| Area Land Km2: | 2.74 |
| Population Total: | 1775 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 646.8 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 19.9% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 762 |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Pointe-des-Cascades (in French pronounced as /pwɛ̃t de kaskad/) is a village municipality in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on a spit of land where the St. Lawrence River flows into Lake Saint-Louis. The river has here a significant drop, forming several cascades which give the village its name.[4] The islands of Île des Cascades and Île des Joybert are connected by a narrow causeway, but Île des Cascades and Pointe-des-Cascades are only connected artificially.
Starting in the mid-seventeenth century until 1700, many military expeditions arrived at this place in order to portage around the cascades on the Saint Lawrence River. The first reference to Pointe-des-Cascades appeared in a text of Louis-Armand de Lahontan in 1684 and on a map of Deshayes in 1695, when Pointe des Cascades was included in the Vaudreuil Lordship.[4]
In 1893, the post office opened under the English name Cascades Point (renamed in 1951 to Pointe-des-Cascades). A few years later construction began on the Soulanges Canal and when it was completed in 1899, the village became the eastern, downstream terminus of the canal.[4] In 1958, it closed when it was superseded by the new Beauharnois Canal. The paths along the canal are now used as a regional cycling route.[5]
In 1961, the Village Municipality of Pointe-des-Cascades was formed on the territory of the Parish Municipalities of Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges (now Les Cèdres) and Saint-Michel-de-Vaudreuil (now part of Vaudreuil-Dorion).[4]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pointe-des-Cascades had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.74km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[6]
| Canada Census mother tongue - Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 1,335 | 8.1% | 75.2% | 230 | 58.6% | 13.0% | 55 | 175.0% | 3.1% | 145 | 81.3% | 8.2% | ||||||||
| 1,235 | 4.7% | 83.4% | 145 | 45.0% | 9.8% | 20 | 20.0% | 1.4% | 80 | 128.6% | 5.4% | ||||||||
| 1,180 | 19.8% | 88.1% | 100 | 185.7% | 7.5% | 25 | n/a% | 1.9% | 35 | 133.3% | 2.6% | ||||||||
| 985 | 13.2% | 95.2% | 35 | 22.2% | 3.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 15 | n/a% | 1.5% | ||||||||
| 870 | 2.2% | 95.1% | 45 | 350.0% | 4.9% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | ||||||||
| 890 | n/a | 96.7% | 10 | n/a | 1.1% | 10 | n/a | 1.1% | 10 | n/a | 1.1% | ||||||||
| Liberal | Conservative | Bloc Québécois | New Democratic | Green | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 32% | 273 | 18% | 154 | 36% | 300 | 9% | 79 | 2% | 14 | ||||||
| 2019 | 38% | 349 | 6% | 56 | 38% | 350 | 10% | 88 | 6% | 53 | ||||||
| CAQ | Liberal | QC solidaire | Parti Québécois | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 48% | 447 | 21% | 200 | 15% | 140 | 12% | 108 | |||||
| 2014 | 0% | 0 | 39% | 294 | 13% | 101 | 42% | 322 | |||||
List of former mayors:[7]
Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.[8]
Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools. It is zoned to Birchwood Elementary School in Saint-Lazare and St. Patrick Elementary School in Pincourt.[9]