Mont-Tremblant, Quebec

Mont-Tremblant
City
Mont-Tremblant
Nickname(s): Tremblant
Location within Les Laurentides RCM
Mont-Tremblant Location in central Quebec
Coordinates: 46°07′N 74°36′W / 46.117°N 74.600°WCoordinates: 46°07′N 74°36′W / 46.117°N 74.600°W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Laurentides
RCM	Les Laurentides
Constituted	November 22, 2000
Government[2]
• Federal riding	Laurentides—Labelle
• Prov. riding	Labelle
Area[2][3]
• Total	248.10 km^2 (95.79 sq mi)
• Land	234.40 km^2 (90.50 sq mi)
Population (2011)[3]
• Total	9,494
• Density	40.5/km^2 (105/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	6.8%
• Dwellings	7,492
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s)	J8E
Area code(s)	819
Highways	Route 117 (TCH) Route 323 Route 327
Website	www.villede mont-tremblant.qc.ca

Centre of the original Mont-Tremblant village on Mercier Lake.

Looking down onto Mont Tremblant Village

Mont-Tremblant (French pronunciation: ​[mɔ̃ tʁɑ̃blɑ̃]) is a city in the Laurentian mountains of Quebec, Canada, approximately 130 kilometres (81 mi) northwest of Montreal and 140 kilometres (87 mi) northeast of Ottawa. The current municipality with city status was formed in 2000. Mont-Tremblant is most famous for its ski resort, the Mont-Tremblant Ski Resort, which is 5 kilometres from the village proper, at the foot of a mountain called Mont Tremblant (derived from local Algonquins who referred to it as the "trembling mountain")..

Mont-Tremblant has a race track called Circuit Mont-Tremblant. It has hosted or currently hosts Formula One, Can-Am, Trans-Am, and Champ Car World Series competitions amongst others.

The surrounding area also features hiking, cycling, canoeing, fishing, golfing, ziplines, and a host of other outdoor activities.

Since the summer of 2006, Mont-Tremblant has its own senior amateur Football team, the Mystral, and Junior AA hockey team, Les Diables (Devils).

History

The area was first settled by the aboriginal people, the Algonquins and 1872 by parish priest Antoine Labelle, leading to formal establishment of the parish in 1879. A railway line from Montreal was completed to the village of Saint-Jovite in 1892, and extended to Lac Mercier in 1904. The Lac-Mercier station would become the village of Mont-Tremblant. In 1905 a hydroelectric dam was erected on the banks of the Ruisseau Clair and the Rivière-du-Diable, providing electricity initially for Saint-Jovite. Principal economic activities were agriculture and logging.

Constructed by Joseph Bondurant Ryan, the ski resort Mont-Tremblant Lodge began operation of their first chair lift in 1939. His family sold the resort in 1965 to a consortium of investors.

In 2002 the four municipalities in the area merged, Ville Saint-Jovite, Paroisse de Saint-Jovite, Mont-Tremblant, and Lac-Tremblant-Nord, becoming the amalgamated Ville de Mont-Tremblant. Afterwards the Municipality of Lac-Tremblant-Nord separated, effective 2006.^[4]

Demographics

Population:^[5]

• Population in 2006: 8892
• Population in 2001: 8317 (adjusted for boundary change)
• Population total in 1996:
  • Mont-Tremblant: 977
  • Lac-Tremblant-Nord: 4
  • Saint-Jovite (ville): 4609
  • Saint-Jovite (parish): 1708
• Population in 1991:
  • Mont-Tremblant: 707
  • Lac-Tremblant-Nord: 0
  • Saint-Jovite (ville): 4118
  • Saint-Jovite (parish): 1275

Language:

• English as first language: 7.4%
• French as first language: 89.0%
• Other as first language: 2.3%

Education

The city has five elementary schools on its territory, one high school, one professional training school, and one public college.

Elementary schools: Fleur-Soleil, La-Doyenne, La Ribambelle, Tournesol, Trois Saisons.

High school: École Polyvalente Curé-Mercure.

Professional training school: Centre Le Florès.

College: Centre Collégial de Mont-Tremblant^[6] (also called CEGEP de Saint-Jerome Mont-Tremblant campus).

See also

• Gray Rocks
• Mont-Tremblant public transit
• Mont Blanc, Quebec

References

1. Reference number 360952 of the Commission de toponymie du Québec (French)
2. Geographic code 78102 in the official Répertoire des municipalités (French)
3. "(Code 2478102) Census Profile". 2011 census. Statistics Canada. 2012.
4. "Ville de Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Canada - Site officiel de la ville de Mont-Tremblant". villedemont-tremblant.qc.ca.
5. Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
6. http://azimut.cstj.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=53,1802580&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL

External links

• Mont-Tremblant travel guide from Wikivoyage
• Ville de Mont-Tremblant
• Official Tourism Mont-Tremblant website
• Mont-Tremblant Local Newspaper - Tremblant Express