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The South Shore (French: Rive-Sud) is the general term for the suburbs of Montreal, Quebec located on the southern shore of the Saint Lawrence River opposite the Island of Montreal. The South Shore is located within the Quebec administrative region of Montérégie. The largest city on the South Shore area is Longueuil.
Administrative regions are used to organize the delivery of provincial government services. They were also the basis of organization for regional conferences of elected officers (French: conférences régionales des élus, CRÉ), with the exception of the Montérégie and Nord-du-Québec regions, which each had three CRÉs or equivalent bodies.
Durham-Sud (French pronunciation: [dyʁam syd]), also known as South Durham, is a small farming community in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, west of Richmond and south of Drummondville. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,008.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Saint-Pierre-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud had a population of 840 living in 370 of its 430 total private dwellings, a change of -7.4% from its 2016 population of 907. With a land area of 91.05 km 2 (35.15 sq mi), it had a population density of 9.2/km 2 (23.9/sq mi) in 2021. [4]
Brossard (/ b r ɒ ˈ s ɑːr, ˈ b r ɒ s ɑːr d / bross-AR, BROSS-ard, French:, locally [bʁɔsɑːʁ, bʁɔsɑɔ̯ʁ]) is a municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada and is part of the Greater Montreal area.
Portrait of Victor Cousin by Gustave Le Gray (1855-1860). In 1843, Victor Cousin research led him to the Bibliothèque royale, [Note 1] where he discovered what he believed to be the collection of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, [4] [5] [Note 2] an in-quarto manuscript collection dated from the seventeenth century, [Note 3] the contents of which read "Discours sur les passions de l'amour ...
Le Sud-Ouest is an amalgam of several neighbourhoods with highly distinct histories and identities, mainly with working-class and industrial origins, grouped around the Lachine Canal. These include Saint-Henri , Little Burgundy , and Griffintown to the north of the canal, and Ville-Émard , Côte-Saint-Paul , and Pointe-Saint-Charles to the south.
Beauce has over 50% of sugar maples and sugar shacks in Quebec, which produces the most maple syrup in Canada as well as the World. [3] Exclusively agricultural for many years, Beauce's economy slowly diversified in the first half of the 20th century through forestry, wood processing, and the leather and textile industries.