| Salaberry-de-Valleyfield | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Logo_valleyfield.gif |
| Blank Emblem Type: | Logo |
| Nickname: | The Venice of Quebec |
| Motto: | Ubi lux ibi labor |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Name3: | Beauharnois-Salaberry |
| Established Title: | Founded |
| Established Date: | 1874 |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | April 24, 2002 |
| Named For: | Charles-Michel d'Irumberry de Salaberry |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] |
| Government Type: | Mayor-council government |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Miguel Lemieux |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Salaberry—Suroît |
| Total Type: | Total |
| Area Footnotes: | [2] [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 126.99 |
| Area Land Km2: | 108.56 |
| Area Urban Km2: | 33.93 |
| Population Total: | 42787 |
| Population Urban: | 41655 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 394.1 |
| Population Density Urban Km2: | 1227.6 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop |
| Population Blank1: | 5.0% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 20962 |
| Population Demonym: | Campivallensien, Campivallensienne (fr) Campivallensian (en) |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J6S, J6T, J7X |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Beauharnois |
| Area Metro Footnotes: | [4] |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
| Parts Type: | Boroughs |
| Parts Style: | coll |
| P1: | Grande-Île |
| P2: | Nitro |
| P3: | Georges-Leduc |
| P4: | Champlain |
| P5: | La Baie |
| P6: | Robert-Cauchon |
| P7: | Jules-Léger |
| P8: | Saint-Timothée |
| Parts: | List of boroughs |
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in the Regional County Municipality of Beauharnois-Salaberry. The population as of 2021 was 42,410.[2]
The historic downtown is a major touristic centre for the area.
Due to the presence of Lake St. Francis on the St. Lawrence River, St. Francis Bay in downtown, and of numerous rivers and canals all over the town, the city is nicknamed "The Venice of Quebec".
The actual city was founded in 1874, the first mayor was Moise Plante. The first settlers arrived in 1798. At that moment, the settlement was named Pointe-du-Lac (Lake Point). The colony was then renamed Saranac, then Sainte-Cécile. Salaberry-de-Valleyfield was officially named in 1874 after Colonel Charles de Salaberry who served with the British army during the War of 1812. "Valleyfield" came from the Valleyfield Mills, a paper mill south of Edinburgh in Scotland.
The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Valleyfield, founded in 1892.
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is also the seat of the judicial district of Beauharnois since 1901.[5]
In 2002, the city of 26,170 amalgamated with the following communities[6] (2001 Canada census figures):
Situated on Grande-Île, an island in the Saint Lawrence River, it is bordered at its western end by Lake Saint Francis, with the Saint Lawrence to the north and the Beauharnois Canal to its south. The Port of Valleyfield is on the canal.
Salaberry-de-Valleyfield has a humid continental climate (Dfb) with warm summers and long, cold, and snowy winters.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 108.56km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[2]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec[7] Amalgamated with Saint-Timothée and Grande-Île in 2002. | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 37,480 | 0.01% | 94.48% | 1,160 | 5.0% | 2.92% | 395 | 13.2% | 1.00% | 570 | 46.2% | 1.44% | ||||||||
| 37,475 | 1.7% | 95.05% | 1,105 | 6.8% | 2.80% | 455 | 89.6% | 1.15% | 390 | 12.4% | 0.99% | ||||||||
| 36,845 | 51.9% | 95.54% | 1,035 | 40.8% | 2.68% | 240 | 20.0% | 0.62% | 445 | 74.5% | 1.15% | ||||||||
| 24,260 | 2.4% | 95.32% | 735 | 11.4% | 2.89% | 200 | 14.9% | 0.79% | 255 | 4.1% | 1.00% | ||||||||
| 24,855 | n/a | 95.61% | 660 | n/a | 2.54% | 235 | n/a | 0.90% | 245 | n/a | 0.94% | ||||||||
The city council is composed of the mayor and eight city councillors. The municipal elections are at each 4 years, each councillor stands for his/her district.
| Mayor | Denis Lapointe | Denis Lapointe | Denis Lapointe | Miguel Lemieux | |
| 1 - Grande-Île | Denis Laître | Denis Laître | Denis Laître | Lyne Lefebvre | |
| 2 - Nitro | Jean-Marc Rochon | Jean-Marc Rochon | Jean-Marc Rochon | Jason Grenier | |
| 3 - Georges-Leduc | Claude Reid | Louise Sauvé | Louise Sauvé | Jean-Marc Rochon | |
| 4 - Champlain | Robert Savard | Robert Savard | Jean-Luc Pomerleau | France Chenail | |
| 5 - La Baie | Roger Levert | Jean-Jacques Leduc | François Labossière | Guillaume Massicotte | |
| 6 - Robert-Cauchon | Jacques Smith | Jacques Smith | Jacques Smith | Jacques Smith | |
| 7 - Jules-Léger | Pierre-Paul Messier | Pierre-Paul Messier | Patrick Rancourt | Patrick Rancourt | |
| 8 - Saint-Timothée | Normand Amesse | Normand Amesse | Normand Amesse | Normand Amesse |
List of former mayors:[9]
The Musée de Société des Deux-Rives (MUSO), which covers the economic and cultural history of the region, is located in the city.
The city houses one of the 10 minor basilicas in Quebec. Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Cecilia, built in 1934–1935, is one of the largest churches in the country.
The city has been the site of the Valleyfield Regattas since 1938. The event takes place every year at the beginning of July over a three-day period in the heart of the city on Bay Saint-François. It is an international hydroplane competition, in which power boats achieve speeds of up to 225 km/h. Attracting over 130,000 visitors per year, it also includes other cultural activities.[10]
The Gault Institute was created by Andrew Frederick Gault. He created this school during the time that the Gault Cotton Mills were up and running. To heat the school at one time he used underground pipes connecting from the school to the Cotton Mills since at the time there was no electricity.
serial killer.[11]