Dorval

Dorval, Quebec
—  City  —
City of Dorval
Train station and Trudeau Airport in Dorval.
Location of Dorval on the Island of Montreal. (Grey areas indicate demerged municipalities).
Coordinates: 45°27′N 73°45′W / 45.45°N 73.75°W / 45.45; -73.75
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montréal
Founded	1667
Incorporated	1892
Reestablished	January 01, 2006
Electoral Districts Federal	Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine
Provincial	Marquette
Government [1][2][3]
- Mayor	Edgar Rouleau
- Federal MP(s)	Marlene Jennings (LIB)
- Quebec MNA(s)	François Ouimet (PLQ)
Area [4]
- Land	20.87 km2 (8.1 sq mi)
Population (2006)[4]
- Total	18,088
- Density	866.5/km2 (2,244.2/sq mi)
- Change (2001-06)	▲2.2%
- Dwellings	8,118
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code(s)	H9P, H4Y, H9S
Area code(s)	(514) and (438)
Access Routes[5] A-13 A-20	A-40 A-520
Website	www.city.dorval.qc.ca

Dorval (pronounced /dɔrˈvæl/) is a city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. As of the 2006 Canadian Census, the population increased by 2.2% to 18,088. Although the city has the largest surface area in the West Island, it is among the least densely populated. Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport constitutes about 60% of the city's land, forcing all of Dorval's population to be concentrated in the southern part of the city.

Dorval is the oldest city in the West Island, having been founded in 1667, and one of the oldest in Canada and North America.

History

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The history of Dorval dates back more than 300 years to 1665 when Sulpician priests established a mission on the outskirts of Ville-Marie, a French settlement which later became known as Montreal. Dorval was originally named Gentilly. It was later renamed La Présentation-de-la-Vierge-Marie and finally Dorval. It was incorporated as a village in 1892, a town in 1903, and a city in 1956. (In French it was termed a cité, an old term used to translate the English legal term "city.")

Residential street in Dorval.

As with many other settlements on the Island of Montreal, the Grand Trunk Railway, which came to Dorval in 1855, was highly instrumental in attracting many wealthier families, mostly English-speaking, in search of a summer refuge in proximity to their downtown residence and place of work. Access to Dorval from Montreal was also facilitated by the extension of streetcar service to Dorval's eastern city limits in the interwar period. After the Second World War many middle-class families migrated to Dorval from the city of Montreal and from other parts of Canada. This migration was made possible by the widening of highway 20 and by the large-scale construction of new dwellings. This new housing consisted mostly of single family homes with some townhouses and low-rise apartment buildings, built on lands previously used for agriculture and recreational activities. The post-war period also saw the construction of Dorval Gardens shopping centre in 1956, one of Greater Montreal's first mall-style shopping centres. Today the shopping centre remains the city's principal centre of retail trade. Île Dorval, settled in 1860 and located less than one kilometre offshore from Dorval, is a summer cottage community which has only two permanent residents and remains a pristine environment. The island is connected to the city of Dorval proper by a private ferry service.

On January 1, 2002, the city of Dorval was dissolved by the province of Quebec via Bill 170 (Municipal Territorial Organization) and was annexed to the city of Montréal. On June 20, 2004, the residents of Dorval voted to demerge from Montreal to become an independent city once again. The demerged city has been in place since January 1, 2006.

Demographics

According to the 2006 census there were 18,088 people and 7,815 households in the city. 77.5% of residents had lived in Dorval for more than 5 years. The population density was 866.5/km².

The 2001 census counted about 1.21% of the population as Aboriginal as well as an additional 13.00% of the population who self-identified as having a visible minority status, which included 2.87% who self-identified as Black, 2.27% as Chinese, 1.98% as Filipino, 1.87% as South Asian, 1.32% as Korean, 1.00% as Arab, 0.69% as Latin American, 0.47% as Southeast Asian, and 0.20% as Japanese.^[6]

A large Inuit population has also established itself in Dorval but this does not appear on official census data because most Inuit choose to associate themselves with their village or reside only part-time in Dorval.

English was mother tongue to 47.5% of Dorval residents according to the 2006 census (counting both single and multiple responses), compared to 47.1% in 2001 and 50.2% in 1996; while French was mother tongue to 32.1% of residents in 2006, compared to 36.9% in 2001 and 35.8% in 1996. ^[7]

Government

City council

The present mayor of Dorval is Edgar Rouleau. There are eight city councilors.

1. Claude Valiquet (District 1)
2. Michel Hébert (District 2)
3. Daniel da Chão (District 3)
4. Robert Bourbeau (District 4)
5. Heather Allard (District 5)
6. Margo Heron (District 6)

Infrastructure

Trudeau Airport

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Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport

Montreal's principal airport, Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (previously known as Dorval Airport), is in Dorval.^[8] From 1975 to 2005, Dorval Airport was one of two passenger airports serving Greater Montreal. Since 2005, it has become the metropolitan area's sole passenger airport. Originally a military airfield used mainly to refuel new fighters and bombers being flown to Great Britain during the Second World War, Trudeau Airport today serves over 12 million passengers annually. The airport is by far the largest employer in the West Island, let alone Dorval. It is also a major source of municipal tax revenue.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• City of Dorval homepage

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Dorval, Québec

• Dorval station
• Dorval intercity station
• List of former boroughs
• Montreal Merger
• Municipal reorganization in Quebec

	Dollard-des-Ormeaux	Saint-Laurent (Montreal)		v • d • e
	Pointe-Claire		Lachine (Montreal)
		Dorval
		Lac Saint-Louis

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Coordinates: 45°27′N 73°45′W / 45.45°N 73.75°W / 45.45; -73.75