| Varennes | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Image Blank Emblem: | Logo Varennes1.jpg |
| Blank Emblem Size: | 110x75px |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec. |
| Coordinates: | 45.6833°N -99°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Marguerite-D'Youville |
| Established Title: | Settled |
| Established Date: | 1672 |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | August 26, 1972 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Martin Damphousse |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Pierre-Boucher—Les Patriotes—Verchères |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Verchères |
| Area Total Km2: | 114.40 |
| Area Land Km2: | 94.80 |
| Area Urban Km2: | 10.36 |
| Elevation M: | 19 |
| Population Total: | 21198 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Density Km2: | 223.6 |
| Population Urban: | 20591 |
| Population Density Urban Km2: | 1987.5 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016-2021 |
| Population Blank1: | 0.3% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 8538 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J3X |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
Varennes (pronounced as /fr/) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Saint Lawrence River in the Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality. The city is approximately 24km (15miles) from Downtown Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 20,994. In 2015, the population is listed at 24,000.
The history of Varennes[3] starts with the arrival of the Régiment de Carignan-Salières[4] in New France. René Gaultier,[5] sieur de Varennes, was given three concessions by intendant Jean Talon in 1672, le Tremblay, la Gabelle and Varennes.[6] Jaques-René,[7] one of his sons, was the second seigneur of Varennes. Five seignories later composed the Varennes parish. They were the seignories du Cap de Varennes, de l'île Sainte Thérèse, de Grand Maison, du Cap de la trinité and du Cap Saint-Michel. The town was captured by the British in 1760 during the Montreal Campaign. It was part of the Province of Quebec (1763–1791), then of Lower Canada, before it returned to being part of Quebec again in 1867 due to Canadian Confederation.
Varennes gained the status of city in 1972.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Varennes had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 94.8km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[8]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Varennes, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 19,855 | 1,7% | 94.2% | 315 | 1.6% | 1.5% | 225 | 87.5% | 1.1% | 555 | 30.6% | 2.6% | ||||||||
| 20,190 | 1,0% | 95,6% | 310 | 13.8% | 1.5% | 120 | 4.0% | 0.6% | 425 | 16,4% | 2.0% | ||||||||
| 19,985 | 0.1% | 95.9% | 360 | 18.0% | 1.7% | 125 | 177.8% | 0.6% | 365 | 11.0% | 1.8% | ||||||||
| 20,010 | 5.4% | 96.3% | 305 | 18.7% | 1.5% | 45 | 28.6% | 0.2% | 410 | 241.6% | 2.0% | ||||||||
| 18,990 | 4.0% | 97.3% | 375 | 31.6% | 1.9% | 35 | 63.2% | 0.2% | 120 | 100.0% | 0.6% | ||||||||
| 18,265 | n/a | 97.7% | 285 | n/a | 1.5% | 95 | n/a | 0.5% | 60 | n/a | 0.3% | ||||||||