Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Quebec

For other uses, see Saint-Hilaire (disambiguation).

Mont-Saint-Hilaire
City
Skyline of Mont-Saint-Hilaire
Location within La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM. Location within La Vallée-du-Richelieu RCM.
Mont-Saint-Hilaire Location in southern Quebec.
Coordinates:
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montérégie
RCM	La Vallée-du-Richelieu
Constituted	March 12, 1966
Government
• Mayor	Yves Corriveau
• Federal riding	Beloeil—Chambly
• Prov. riding	Borduas
Area
• Total	45.50 km2 (17.57 sq mi)
• Land	44.29 km2 (17.10 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	18,200
• Density	410.9/km2 (1,064/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	15.8%
• Dwellings	7,406
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s)	J3H
Area code(s)	450 and 579
Highways A-20 (TCH)	Route 116
Website	www.villemsh.ca

Mont-Saint-Hilaire is an off-island suburb of Montreal in southeastern Quebec, Canada, on the Richelieu River in the Regional County Municipality of La Vallée-du-Richelieu. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 18,200. The city is named after the Mont Saint-Hilaire.

A significant deposit of the semi-precious mineral sodalite is located near Mont-Saint-Hilaire.

Demographics

Population

Population trend:

Census	Population	Change (%)
2011	18,200	15.8%
2006	15,720	10.2%
2001	14,270	9.2%
1996	13,064	6.5%
1991	12,267	N/A

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only	14,540	93.32%
English only	610	3.92%
Both English and French	60	0.39%
Other languages	370	2.37%

Transportation

Mont-Saint-Hilaire is served by the Mont-Saint-Hilaire commuter rail station on the Agence métropolitaine de transport's Mont-Saint-Hilaire Line. Local bus service is provided by the CIT de la Vallée du Richelieu.

In 1864, Canada's worst rail disaster occurred here when a passenger train passed a red signal and fell off an open swing bridge into the Richelieu River, killing around 99 people.

Attractions

• The Gault Nature Reserve on Mont Saint-Hilaire includes over a thousand hectares of primeval fores. Owned by McGill University, the nature reserve is used for research and recreation.
• Le Musée des beaux-arts de Mont-Saint-Hilaire is the major art museum on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. It was founded in 1993 to promote the work of regional artists Jordi Bonet, Paul-Émile Borduas and Ozias Leduc. Exhibitions also feature art from the area, such as Saint-Hilaire et les Automatistes in 1997, and Leduc, Borduas et le paysage de Saint-Hilaire in 2008, as well as other Quebec artists such as Jean-Paul Lemieux and Nancy Petry.
• Art Station
• Art center Ozias Leduc
• Manoir Rouville-Campbell
• Saint-Hilaire church

Education

The South Shore Protestant Regional School Board previously served the municipality.

See also

• List of cities in Quebec
• St-Hilaire train disaster

External links

• Town of Mont-Saint-Hilaire