La Pointe-de-l'Île, qc

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.