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By car it would take two hours and a half to drive to Parliament Hill. Autoroutes 40 and 25 serve the riding.
Hourly flights from Montreal to Ottawa take 48 minutes gate to gate.
This is an urban Montreal riding taking in parts the borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Montreal East, as well as the southern portion of Pointe-aux-Trembles–Rivière des Prairies.
Outdoor Canada magazine cites this area as one of the six hotspots for fishing in Quebec. The Saint Lawrence is a fast-flowing river with plenty of bass, pike, sturgeon, and walleye. A big advantage is that the river rarely freezes here, enabling year-round angling.
This riding is largely francophone.
About 16% of the riding’s population are immigrants, with some of the largest populations born in Haiti, Algeria, and Morocco.
Spanish, Creole, and Arabic are the most common non-official mother tongues in the riding.
Approximately 1% of the riding’s population identify as Aboriginal.
Average individual income is $50,852.
The Club de Golf de l’Île de Montréal is a 36-hole golf course just south of Autoroute 40.
The Édouard-Rivet Recreation Centre has a gym, swimming pool, ball field, restaurant, and meeting area for community groups. There is also many parks, including the Parc Bellerive and the Parc du bout de l’Île that are among the prettiest of Montreal.
This riding has been a Bloc Québécois stronghold since 1993, when Francine Lalonde won with over 50% of the vote. Lalonde maintained the riding until 2011, when she left politics to fight a personal battle against cancer that she ultimately lost. Coincidentally, 2011 was the first and only time the riding voted for another party (NDP).
A large section of Montreal’s industrial base is located here. Glencore has operated a copper refinery on Victoria Street since 1931. Suncor, Lafarge, and Parachem also have operations here. Shell Oil’s refinery shut down in 2010, costing some 800 jobs, and now operates as a storage terminal.
As part of its Sustainable Development Plan for 2016-2020, Montreal plans to reduce greenhouse gases by 30% by 2020 and to increase the tree canopy of the city from 20% to 25% by 2025.
The riding has two historic battle sites. At Coulée Grou in 1640, a group of 26 French settlers fought a much larger Iroquois force. The Americans failed to conquer Montreal in the 1775 Battle of Longue-Pointe, during the Revolutionary War.
Pointe-aux-Trembles was founded in 1674, when the Sulpicians were encouraging colonists to settle. The riding’s oldest structure is a windmill constructed in 1719 that was used to mill grain and provide cover in case of enemy attack. The mill fell into disuse in the 1800s but was restored in 2007.
