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 Laval, Quebec - Definition 

fr:Laval (municipalité régionale de comté)

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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
West:
Rosemere, Broisbriand, Saint-Eustache		 Laval East: Montreal
South: Montreal


Regions of Quebec Flag of Quebec

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

see also: Regional County Municipalities of Quebec

fr:Laval (Québec) pl:Laval (Quebec)


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