Laval, Quebec
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Laval is a city, a regional county municipality and a region in southwestern Quebec, Canada in the greater Montreal area. It is located on Ile Jesus, across the Rivière des Prairies from Montreal. It also includes the Îles-Laval in the Rivière des Prairies. The city has a population of 330,393 (Statistics Canada, 1996). Laval also constitutes one of the 17 regions of Quebec.
Laval was named after the first owner of Île Jésus, François de Montmorency-Laval, the first Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec. It was incorporated in 1965 when the Quebec government merged the 14 municipalities that comprised Laval County:
- Chomedey
- Duvernay
- Laval-des-Rapides
- Laval-Ouest
- Pont-Viau
- Sainte-Rose
- Auteuil
- Fabreville
- Laval-sur-le-Lac
- Sainte-Dorothée
- Saint-François
- Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
- Vimont
- Îles-Laval
External links
Ville de Laval (http://www.ville.laval.qc.ca)
See also
| North: Bois-des-Filion, Terrebonne |
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| West: Rosemere, Broisbriand, Saint-Eustache |
Laval | East: Montreal |
| South: Montreal |
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Abitibi-Témiscamingue | Bas-Saint-Laurent | Capitale-Nationale | Centre-du-Québec | Chaudière-Appalaches | Côte-Nord | Estrie | Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine | Lanaudière | Laurentides | Laval | Mauricie | Montérégie | Montréal | Nord-du-Québec | Outaouais | Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean | |||
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see also: Regional County Municipalities of Quebec | |||
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