Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec

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Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec

Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac
Coordinates: 45°32′N 73°56′W / 45.533°N 73.933°W / 45.533; -73.933Coordinates: 45°32′N 73°56′W / 45.533°N 73.933°W / 45.533; -73.933
Country Canada
Province Quebec
Region Laurentides
Regional County Deux-Montagnes
Settled
Incorporated January 1, 1960
Government
 - Type Ville
 - Mayor Sonia Paulus
 - Federal riding Rivière-des-Mille-Îles
 - Prov. riding Mirabel
Area
 - Land 9.31 km2 (3.6 sq mi)
Population (2006)
 - Total 11,311
 - Density 1,214.4/km2 (3,145.3/sq mi)
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 - Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Postal Code J0N
Area code(s) 450
Website www.ville.sainte-marthe-sur-le-lac.qc.ca

Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac is a town in the Canadian province of Quebec, located in Deux-Montagnes Regional County Municipality. It is crossed from east to west by road 344, commonly known as Oka road. The town shares its borders with Deux-Montagnes to the east, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac to the west, the lake of Two-Mountains to the south and Saint-Eustache to the north.

It has two elementary schools (Horizon-du-Lac and Des-Lucioles) and one high school (Liberté-Jeunesse). It shares police, firefighters, waterworks and other services with the city of Deux-Montagnes.

Formerly known as a rural town where most of its inhabitants were seasonal vacationers, since 1995, the population as grown from 8,300 people to 11,300 in 2006 up to almost 15,000 nowadays.

Demographics

Population:

  • Population in 2006: 11,311 (2001 to 2006 population change: 29.4 %)
  • Population in 2001: 8,742
  • Population in 1996: 8,295
  • Population in 1991: 7,410

Total private dwellings, excluding seasonal cottages: 4276 (total: 4461)

Mother tongue:

  • English as first language: 6.5 %
  • French as first language: 89.1 %
  • English and French as first language: 1.2 %
  • Other as first language: 3.2 %

  1. ^ a b Statistics Canada 2006 Census
  2. ^ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census


Saint-Eustache
Saint-Joseph-du-Lac Deux-Montagnes
   Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac    
Pointe-Calumet Lake of Two Mountains / Montreal (L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève)
Quebec Administrative divisions of Laurentides  (Region 15)
Regional county municipalities
and equivalent territories

Deux-Montagnes · Thérèse-de-Blainville · Mirabel · La Rivière-du-Nord · Argenteuil · Les Pays-d'En-Haut · Les Laurentides · Antoine-Labelle
Municipalities

Saint-Eustache · Deux-Montagnes · Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac · Pointe-Calumet · Boisbriand · Sainte-Thérèse · Blainville · Rosemère · Lorraine · Bois-des-Filion · Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines · Mirabel · Saint-Colomban · Saint-Jérôme · Sainte-Sophie · Prévost · Saint-Hippolyte · Lachute · Brownsburg-Chatham · Estérel · Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson · Sainte-Adèle · Saint-Sauveur · Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts · Barkmere · Mont-Tremblant · Rivière-Rouge · Mont-Laurier
Administrative divisions of Quebec
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