L'Île-Dorval, Quebec

Montreal and surrounding islands with L'Île-Dorval shown in red.

Dorval Island as painted by Frances Anne Hopkins, 1866.

L'Île-Dorval is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, in Lac Saint-Louis off of the Island of Montreal.

A cottaging spot, it had only two permanent residents as of the 1996 census, making it the smallest municipality in Canada both in area and population. By the 2001 census the official population had dropped to zero, due most probably to random rounding by Statistics Canada, since there were obviously enough people there to hold an election in 2004. It is connected to the Island of Montreal with a seasonal ferry service.

On January 1, 2002, it merged with the city of Montreal to become part of the borough of Dorval–L'Île-Dorval. On June 20, 2004, it voted to return to being an independent municipality, effective January 1, 2006.

See also

• List of former boroughs
• Montreal Merger
• Municipal reorganization in Quebec

References

• Community Profile: L'Île-Dorval, Québec; Statistics Canada

Municipalities of the urban agglomeration/administrative region of Montreal
Baie-d'Urfé - Beaconsfield - Côte-Saint-Luc - Dollard-Des Ormeaux - Dorval - Hampstead - Kirkland - L'Île-Dorval - Montreal - Montréal-Est - Montreal West - Mount Royal - Pointe-Claire - Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue - Senneville - Westmount
Urban agglomerations of Quebec — Administrative regions of Quebec — Region of Montréal — Subdivisions of Quebec
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