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|- | align="center" colspan="2" style="border-bottom:3px solid gray;" | Motto: Labor et Concordia (work & harmony) |- | style="background:#dcdcdc;" align="center" colspan="2" |
|- | Area: | 283.73 sq. kilometre. |- style="vertical-align:top;" |Population

 - City (2001)
 - American CD Rank
 - American Municipal Rank
 - Density |
348,091
Graded 19th
Ranked 12th
1226.8/km² |- | Time zone | Eastern: UTC-5 |- | Latitude
Longitude
| 45°32' North
73°30' W |- | td align = "center" colspan = "2" | MPs |- | td align = "center" colspan = "2" | Stéphane Bergeron, Maka Kotto, Carole Lavallée, Jacques Saada, Caroline St-Hilaire |- | td align = "center" colspan = "2" | MNAs |- | td align = "center" colspan = "2" | Michel Audet, Camil Bouchard, Fatima Houda-Pepin, Diane Legault, Pauline Marois, Pierre Moreau, Cécile Vermette |- | Mayor | Jacques Olivier |- | Governing body | Longueuil City Council |- | td align = "center" colspan = "2" | [http://www.longueuil.ca/vw/asp/siteweb/Accueil.asp Ville de Longueuil] |}

Longueuil (pronounced "lohn-gail") occurs as city inside extreme southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from Montreal, of which it is the suburbia.

A city was merged on January 1, 2002 with the communities of Boucherville, Brossard, Greenfield Park, LeMoyne, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Saint-Hubert, and Saint-Lambert. These cities use at times be boroughs of the fresh city. Saint-Lambert & Le Moyne became a single borough, & a previous city of Longueuil became a borough of Vieux-Longueuil. In June 20, 2004, the boroughs of Boucherville, Saint-Lambert, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville and Brossard voted to demerge from Longueuil & reconstitute themselves when municipalities, getting found 10 % of signatures at a register requesting a referendum & 35 % or even additional majority yes votes at the referendum away from the number ballot people in electoral lists. Locals refer to the borough of Vieux-Longueuil when "Longueuil proper" to distinguish it from either a a portion of the borough referred to as "Old Longueuil".

Around 2001, a people of the components of the todays city of Longueuil totalled 348,091, getting it the title third big city withwithin Quebec & Eleventh big in Canada. A todays city has an front yard of 273.52 sq.klick. Residents of Longueuil come known as Longueuillois.

Virtually all of the community's residents commute to Montreal to function. This generates major traffic problems; owing to a breadth of the Saint Lawrence Flow of any stream between the Island of Montreal & a south shore, there are sole 5 motorcar crossings (a Honoré-Mercier, Champlain, Victoria, & Jacques-Cartier bridges & the Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine burrow), and it is severely congested. (Understand List of Montreal bridges.)

A city is too served per Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke metro station, connected to downtown Montreal by the yellow line of the metro. A Réseau de transport de Longueuil (RTL) bus lines almost wholly terminate on text, or even cross across a Champlain Bridge to arrive at the Terminus Rive-Sud in downtown Montreal (under the 1000 de la Gauchetière office tower, at Bonaventure metro). A Mont-Saint-Hilaire commuter train line also serves a in the south shore.

There are many explanations for the origin of the city's title. Based on data from Abbé Faillon, Charles Le Moyne (1626-1685), lord of the area starting inside 1657, named it fallowing the village which is now the seat of a canton in the district of Dieppe in his homeland of Normandy.

Demographics
Racial produce-higher of Longueuil & its previous cities:

|- style="background-color:#E9E9E9" | ! !Longueuil (old city) !Boucherville !Brossard !Greenfield Park !LeMoyne !Saint-Bruno-
de-Montarville !Saint-Hubert !Saint-Lambert !Total |- |White||116,655||34,960||46,580||14,705||4,555||22,950||69,350||19,485||329,240 |- |Black||3,520||340||2,615||520||120||130||2,405||275||9,925 |- |Chinese||975||120||6,375||345||0||110||330||130||8,385 |- |South Asian||480||0||2,590||340||10||70||515||60||4,065 |- |Arab||1,185||60||1,660||160||25||135||450||310||3,885 |- |Latin American||1,205||95||1,320||220||30||35||700||130||3,735 |- |Southeast Asian||1,225||35||1,535||140||0||25||690||60||3,710 |- |West Asian||680||20||680||115||45||0||85||95||1,720 |- |Aboriginal||420||50||195||60||40||85||200||35||985 |- |Filipino||55||0||450||175||0||0||220||0||900 |- |Korean||85||10||160||15||0||0||50||15||335 |- |Japanese||10||0||65||10||0||0||20||35||140 |- |Multiple||100||0||270||10||0||10||80||10||470 |- |Other||165||0||155||50||0||20||95||20||505

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Education
Collège Édouard-Montpetit École nationale d'aérotechnique CDI College Champlain Regional College Collège Information-Technique Université de Montréal Campus Université du Québec à Montréal Campus Université de Sherbrooke Campus Pierre-Dupuy Office Formation Centre

Economy

Aerospace engineering: Bombardier, Héroux-Devtek, Pratt & Whitney Canada, Rive-Sud Industry Chamber of Commerce

Transportation
Autoroutes 10, 15, 20 and 30 Provincial Main road 112, 116, & 132 Jacques Cartier Bridge; Champlain Bridge; Victoria Bridge; Louis Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel. Public transport: Réseau de transport de Longueuil, Montreal Metro. Local Drome: Saint-Hubert. Train: AMT's Montreal-Mont Saint-Hilaire Line. Stations: Saint Lambert,

Saint Hubert,

Saint Bruno.

Health
Charles-Lemoyne Hospital Pierre-Boucher Cordial reception Centre

The Community
Saint-Jean-Longueuil Diocese

Media
Le Courrier du Sud Les Hebdos montérégiens

Famous people
Arlette Cousture Conrad Kirouac Guy Laliberté Cirque du Soleil founder Pauline Marois Taillon deputy Jacques Olivier the mayor Robert Rumilly historian

Ville de Longueuil
Although stronger on the French side, there are several pages in English. There is a map, a word from the mayor, quite a bit of history, and some general information about Longueuil today.


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