| Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac | |
| Official Name: | City of Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac French: Ville de Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac |
| Flag Size: | 120x100px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Central Quebec |
| Pushpin Label Position: | top |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in central Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | January 1, 1960 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | François Robillard |
| Area Total Km2: | 12.80 |
| Area Land Km2: | 8.73 |
| Population Total: | 19797 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 2067.4 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 9.5% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 7642 |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in the Canadian province of Quebec, in the Deux-Montagnes Regional County Municipality, 40 km from Montreal. It is crossed from east to west by Route 344, commonly known as Oka Road. The town shares its borders with Deux-Montagnes to the east, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac to the west, the Lake of Two Mountains to the south, and Saint-Eustache to the north.
It shares police, firefighters, waterworks, and other services with the city of Deux-Montagnes.
It was formerly known as a rural town in which most of its inhabitants were seasonal vacationers, but it is increasingly lived in year-round.
On 27 April 2019, there was a flooding that forced more than 6000 people to be evacuated.[1]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 8.73km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
Population trend:[3]
Mother tongue:
The Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles (CSSMI) operates Francophone schools.[4] This community has three elementary schools (Horizon-du-Lac,[5] Des-Lucioles,[6] and des Grands-Vents[7]) and one alternative lower secondary school (École secondaire Liberté-Jeunesse). École Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes has upper secondary education. Some areas are served by École des Mésanges and Emmanuel-Chénard, both also in Deux-Montagnes, and Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes (for all secondary levels).[8]
Anglophone schools are operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, and the community is served by Lake of Two Mountains High School, in Deux-Montagnes.[9] Mountainview Elementary School and Saint Jude Elementary School, both in Deux-Montagnes, also serve this community.[10] [11]