History of Saint-Laurent, Montréal, Québec, Canada

by a regulation made Sept. 20, 1721, confirmed by an Order in Council, Mar. 3, 1722, contains the cotes St. Michel and St. Laurent, with one half of two ranges of Notre Dame des Vertus. At some distance for Cote des Neiges is the pretty village of St. Laurent, containing a neat parish church with two spires, and seated on the east side of the road.

Population 2426
Churches, R.C. 1
Cures 1
Presbyteries 1
Schools 1
Villages 1

Name of church - St, Laurent

This church is the work of mason Joseph Barbeau and carpenter François Viau, hired by the Fabrique to carry out the work.

The consecration of the church took place on May 23, 1837 by the first bishop of Montreal, Mgr Jean-Jacques Lartigue.

MONTREAL, an island of Lower Canada, at the confluence of the Grand Ottawa river with the St. Lawrence, 580 m. from the mouth of the latter river. It is of a triangular shape, 32 m. long, by from 5 to 10 1/ 2 m. broad. The Riveres-des-Prairies separates it on the NW from Isle Jesus, which is 21 m. long, and 6 m. wide, and is connected with it by a wooden bridge. The island forms the county of M., and is divided into the 9 parishes of St. Ann, St. Genevieve, Pointe-Claire, La Chine, Sault-au-Recollet, St. Laurent, Rivieres-des-Prairies, Pointe-aux-Trembles, and Longue Pointe...

A Gazetteer of the World: Or, Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge, Volume 5
Publisher A. Fullarton, 1859

ST. LAURENT DE MONTREAL, a thriving post village and parish in Jacques Carrier co., Que., on the Island of .Montreal, 7 miles from Montreal. The village contains a church, a college, a convent, and several stores and hotels. Pop. 500; of parish 2,911.

Saint Laurent de Montréal, a post-village in Jacques Cartier co., Quebec, on the island of Montreal, 7 miles W.N.W. of Montreal. It has a church, a college, and a convent. Pop. 500.

Saint Laurent (de Montreal), a post-village of Jacques Cartier co., Quebec, on the island of Montreal, 6 miles WNW. of Montreal on the Grand Trunk R. It has religious institutions. Pop. in 1901, 1390.

Saint-Laurent, Qué, Borough, pop 84 833 (2006c), 77 391 (2001c). Incorporated in 1893, Saint-Laurent grew from a mere 1225 inhabitants in that year to become the second most important industrial centre in Québec after Montréal. In 2002 it was merged into the larger city. Saint-Laurent lies in the northwestern part of MONTRÉAL adjacent to the city of DORVAL. The borough is one of Canada's main high-tech manufacturing localities including aeronautical, pharmaceutical, telecommunications and biotechnological manufacturing sectors. It was chosen as the site for a research and development park, Technoparc, because of its proximity to Montréal International Airport at Dorval.
The city gets its name from the road, Côte-Saint-Laurent (now Metropolitan Boulevard), that ran east-west, in the centre of Île de Montréal. The road was used by French settlers at the turn of the 18th century. The parish set up under that name in 1722 and it became a village in 1855.

Saint-Laurent's oldest...