Joliette
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Lua error in Module:Infobox at line 235: malformed pattern (missing ']'). Joliette is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. The city is home to the Joliette Art Museum, whose works of art include paintings, sculptures, paper artwork and a large collection of art from the French Middle Ages.
Joliette has 3 francophone high schools and 1 anglophone high school as well as the Joliette campus of the Cégep régional de Lanaudière.
It was founded as L'Industrie by businessman Barthélemy Joliette in 1823 and was incorporated as a city in 1863.
The city's economy is mainly in the manufacturing and service sectors. The largest gravel manufacturer in the area, Graybec, is located in Joliette and exploits a huge quarry just outside the city.
Joliette is the seat of the judicial district of Joliette.[5]
Local institutions
- Education
- Collège Constituant de Joliette
- École secondaire Thérèse-Martin
- École secondaire Barthélemy-Joliette
- Joliette High School
- Académie Antoine-Manseau
- École Primaire Les Mélèzes
- École Primaire Saint-Pierre (Marie-Charlotte)
Diocese
- Diocèse de Joliette
- Cathédrale Saint-Charles-Borromée de Joliette
See also
References
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- ↑ Reference number 125035 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.. The census agglomeration consists of Joliette, Notre-Dame-des-Prairies, Saint-Charles-Borromée, Saint-Paul. In the 2006 census, the census agglomeration had also included Saint-Pierre.
- ↑ Territorial Division Act. Revised Statutes of Quebec D-11.
