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It takes just over two hours to drive the approximately 200 kilometres between Parliament Hill and Honoré-Mercier. VIA Rail offers train service to and from Central Station. Flights between Ottawa and Pierre Elliott Trudeau airport take less than 45 minutes.
Located on the island of Montreal, this riding takes in the boroughs of Rivières-des-Prairies, Pointe-aux-Trembles, and Anjou. The Rivière des Prairies forms the riding’s northern boundary. The Métropolitain highway and the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine highway cross the riding, making it an attractive place for business.
The fast-flowing Rivière des Prairies is home to pike, white bass, and several other fish, making it a favourite spot for anglers.
This riding is largely francophone with over 48% of the population speaking French as a mother tongue.
About 34% of the riding’s population are immigrants, with some of the largest populations born in Haiti, Italy, and Algeria.
Italian, Creole, and Spanish are the most common non-official mother tongues in the riding.
Less than 1% of the riding’s population identify as Aboriginal.
Average individual income is $38,267.
The city offers cruises along the Rivière des Prairies for those residents and tourists interested in learning more about the river’s history.
For golf enthusiasts, the Métropolitain course offers 18 holes in the middle of the riding and the VGolf Lounge, a virtual golf facility at the same site, offers the experience of 18 holes without having to brave inclement weather.
The CÉGEP Marie Victorin, a pre-university college with over 4,000 students, has begun offering programs in the field of wearable technology design such as shirts that record heart rate and lung capacity.
This area of Montreal, once a great industrial zone for the city, has seen great change over the last 20 years because of globalization. Incomes are below the city’s average and unemployment is slightly higher here. The city is taking steps to clean up brownfields, improve public transportation and increase quality housing in anticipation of the shift towards a green and digital economy.
One of the world’s largest water treatment plants can be found in Pointe-aux-Trembles. The plant handles wastewater at the astonishing rate of 32 cubic metres per second. The city of Montreal has announced that it was building an ozonation plant to address concerns that the current facility was providing only primary treatment. This currently fails to remove pharmaceuticals, heavy metals and other pollutants from treated water.
Honoré Mercier was Quebec’s ninth premier, serving from 1887 to 1891. A Liberal, Mercier is considered the father of Quebec nationalism because he declared that the provincial government was the national government of all Quebecers. Mercier also served federally from 1872 to 1874 as the Liberal MP for Rouville.
