Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac (French pronunciation:[sɛ̃tmaʁtsyʁləlak], lit.'Sainte-Marthe on the Lake') is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in the Canadian province of Quebec, in the Deux-Montagnes Regional County Municipality, 40 km from Montreal. It is crossed from east to west by Route 344, commonly known as Oka Road. The town shares its borders with Deux-Montagnes to the east, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac to the west, the Lake of Two Mountains to the south, and Saint-Eustache to the north.
It shares police, firefighters, waterworks, and other services with the city of Deux-Montagnes.
It was formerly known as a rural town in which most of its inhabitants were seasonal vacationers, but it is increasingly lived in year-round.
History
On 27 April 2019, there was a flooding that forced more than 6000 people to be evacuated.[4]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac had a population of 19,797 living in 7,503 of its 7,642 total private dwellings, a change of 9.5% from its 2016 population of 18,074. With a land area of 8.73 km2 (3.37 sq mi), it had a population density of 2,267.7/km2 (5,873.3/sq mi) in 2021.[5]
Population in 2021: 19,797 (2016 to 2021 population change: 9.5%)
Population in 2016: 18,074 (2011 to 2016 population change: 15.2%)
Population in 2011: 15,689 (2006 to 2011 population change: 38.7%)
Population in 2006: 11,311 (2001 to 2006 population change: 29.4%)
Population in 2001: 8,742
Population in 1996: 8,295
Population in 1991: 7,410
Population in 1986: 6,143
Population in 1981: 5,586
Population in 1976: 4,726
Population in 1971: 3.169
Population in 1966: 1,999
Population in 1961: 1,411
Mother tongue:
English as first language: 4.6%
French as first language: 82.1%
English and French as first language: 1.4%
Other as first language: 9.9%
Education
École secondaire Liberté-Jeunesse
The Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Îles (CSSMI) operates Francophone schools.[7] This community has three elementary schools (Horizon-du-Lac,[8] Des-Lucioles,[9] and des Grands-Vents[10]) and one alternative lower secondary school (École secondaire Liberté-Jeunesse). École Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes has upper secondary education. Some areas are served by École des Mésanges and Emmanuel-Chénard, both also in Deux-Montagnes, and Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes (for all secondary levels).[11]
^"Admission et inscriptionArchived 2015-01-31 at the Wayback Machine." Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Iles. Retrieved on December 7, 2014. "La Commission scolaire de la Seigneurie-des-Mille-Iles (CSSMI) offre ses services aux résidents des municipalités de : Blainville, Boisbriand, Bois-des-Filion, Deux-Montagnes, Lorraine, Mirabel (Saint-Augustin, Saint-Benoît, Sainte-Scholastique et secteur du Domaine-Vert), Oka, Pointe-Calumet, Rosemère, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Sainte-Thérèse, Saint-Eustache, Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, Saint-Placide et Terrebonne Ouest."
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