Longueuil, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-Longueuil)
Longueuil

Longueuil, Qué, City, pop 371 934 (based on the 2001c), 127 977 (1996c), area 283.73 km2, inc 2002, was created by the amalgamation of 8 distinct municipalities including the former city of Longueuil. The new Longueuil is the third-ranking city in Québec and the most populous of the MONTRÉAL suburban communities. Located on the South Shore of the St Lawrence River across from Montréal in the Montérégie region, its territory is criss-crossed by major expressways linking metropolitan Montréal to QUÉBEC CITY, the EASTERN TOWNSHIPS and northern New York State. Longueuil is connected to Montréal by 4 bridges: Victoria (1859), Jacques-Cartier (1930), Champlain (1962) and the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine tunnel-bridge (1967).

Settlement and Development
In 1657, Charles LE MOYNE de Longueuil et de Châteauguay, a merchant of Ville-Marie (Montréal), was given an area of land situated along the St Lawrence River. He named it Longueuil, in honour of his mother's village in France. In 1845 the municipality of the parish of Saint-Antoine de Longueuil was created. Three years later the village of Longueuil was separated from the rural parish and incorporated as a distinct municipality; it became a town in 1874 and a city in 1920. The 1960s saw a period of growth through the annexation of Montréal Sud (1961) and the merger with the city of Jacques-Cartier (1969). Given its historical significance, the name Longueuil was chosen to designate the new city that in 2002 amalgamated its namesake with BOUCHERVILLE, BROSSARD, SAINT-HUBERT, SAINT-LAMBERT, SAINT-BRUNO-DE-MONTARVILLE, GREENFIELD PARK and LeMoyne.

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