Côte-Saint-Luc is worth a stop: 5 minutes from Snowdon, 5km from Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal.
Côte-Saint-Luc is a town located in Quebec, Canada. With a population of 31,395, it is an important destination in North America.
On a road trip, Côte-Saint-Luc sits in Canada, where you drive on the right. It's in the America/Toronto time zone. Below you'll find where to stay, things to do nearby, and everything you need to add Côte-Saint-Luc to your route.
About Côte-Saint-Luc
Côte Saint-Luc (French pronunciation: [kot sɛ̃ lyk] ) is a city on the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. A residential suburb bordered mostly by boroughs of the city of Montreal and by the towns of Hampstead and Montreal West, it is one of the fifteen suburban municipalities that, with Montreal, form the urbanRead more agglomeration of Montreal. With 34,504 residents at the 2021 Canadian census, it is the third most populous municipality on the island after Montreal and Dollard-des-Ormeaux.
The name records one of the côtes, or rows of long farm lots, into which the Sulpician seigneurs divided the island under the French regime; the côte Saint-Luc was farmed by French-Canadian families for two centuries and had some 200 inhabitants in 1818. Detached from the village of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Ouest and incorporated as a village in 1903, it lost its north-eastern lots to the new town of Hampstead in 1914 and still counted fewer than 800 people in 1941. After the Second World War it was transformed within fifteen years into a suburb of bungalows, to which apartment towers were added in the 1960s and 1970s; it became a town in 1951 and a city in 1958, and its population passed 20,000 by 1966. Most of the newcomers were Jewish families moving west from central Montreal: by 1971 three-quarters of residents were Jewish, and according to the Jewish community's own census analyses the city has the largest Jewish population of any district or suburb in the Montreal area.
Predominantly English-speaking and officially bilingual under Quebec's Charter of the French Language, the city has repeatedly taken public positions on language laws and sovereignty on behalf of its anglophone and Jewish residents. It was merged into Montreal on January 1, 2002, and re-established as an independent city on January 1, 2006, after 87 per cent of voters in a 2004 referendum chose to leave. About a third of its territory is taken up by Canadian Pacific's St-Luc rail yard, opened in 1950, which, with the rail lines that feed it, leaves the main part of the city with only two road exits under the tracks; the extension of Cavendish Boulevard across the yards, first planned in the 1960s, has never been built. The city is also known for its volunteer emergency medical service, for a public library that opens every day of the year, and for an unusually elderly population, more than a quarter of which is aged 65 or over.
Côte-Saint-Luc offers many attractions including tourist sites, museums, parks, and local restaurants. Explore famous landmarks, scenic roads, and natural wonders on our interactive map and plan your visit.
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Where is Côte-Saint-Luc located?
Côte-Saint-Luc is located in Quebec, Canada, North America. The coordinates are 45.4654 latitude, -73.6659 longitude.
What is the population of Côte-Saint-Luc?
Côte-Saint-Luc has a population of approximately 31,395 people, making it a town in Canada.
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