Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec

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Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue within the Island of Montreal.

The Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal. The canal links Lake Saint-Louis and the Lake des Deux-Montagnes, at the mouth of the Ottawa River. Used for commercial purposes from its opening in 1843, the canal soon became an integral part of the Montreal-Ottawa-Kingston inland shipping route. Today, the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue lock is used essentially for pleasure boating.

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is a municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, at the western tip of the Island of Montreal; pop. 24,700 (Statistics Canada, 1996).

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is the oldest community in Montreal's West Island, having been founded as a parish in 1703. It is home to John Abbott College, and McGill University's Macdonald College. The latter includes about two square kilometres of farmland which separates the small town from the suburban sprawl of neighbouring Baie-d'Urfé.

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is traversed by Autoroute 20 and Autoroute 40 (the Trans-Canada Highway), and is served by the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue commuter train station. It contains John Abbott College and McGill University's Macdonald Campus, as well as the Sainte-Anne veterans' hospital, the Morgan Arboretum, the J.S. Marshall Radar Observatory and the three nature parks transferred from Pierrefonds—Senneville.

As of the census of 2001, there were 5,062 people, 1,930 households, and 1,240 families residing in the city. The population density was 478.90/km² . There were 2,063 housing units at an average density of 175.18/km². The racial makeup of the city was 89.56% White, 1.78% Black Canadian, 0.22% Aboriginal, 6.89% Asian Canadian, and 0.33% Latin American.

The linguistic makeup of the city was English as the first language of 37.2% of the population, French the first of 45.8%, 1.2% of the population learnt both English and French, and 15.8% first learnt other languages. 16.4% of the population can speak only English, 11.1% can speak only French, 72.4% can speak both English and French, and 0.2% speak neither English nor French.

In the city the population was spread out with 18.5% under the age of 15, 10.4% from 15 to 24, 33.0% from 25 to 44, 17.5% from 45 to 64, and 20.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 112.8 males. For every 100 females age 15 and over, there were 116.8 males.

There were 1,930 households out of which 29.8% had children living with them, 40.7% were married couples living together, 7.3% had a female lone-parent as a householder, and 30.6% of all households were made up of individuals. The average married-couple family size was 3.1.

Christians made up 79.4% of the population, or 61.7% Catholic, 16.5% Protestant, 0.9% Orthodox, and 0.3% other Christian. Other religions in the city include 3.3% Muslim, 1.3% Jewish, 1.3% Eastern religions, and 0.3% other religions. 14.1% of the population claimed to have no religious affiliation.

The median income for a household in the city was $44,092, and the median income for a family was $65,637. Males had an average income of $41,619 versus $28,026 for females. About 5.7% of the labour force was unemployed. The largest occupation categories were 21.2% employed in business, finance, and administration occupations, 18.4% sales and service occupations, and 14.8% in social science, education, government service and religion occupations.

Note: Percentages may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding of data samples