L'Ile-Perrot

It also includes Dowker Island and the small Claude and Bellevue Islands (Île Claude and Île Bellevue).

• Name — L'Île-Perrot • Settlement Type — City • Subdivision Type — Country • Subdivision Name — Canada • Subdivision Type1 — Province • Subdivision Name1 — Quebec • Subdivision Type2 — Region • Subdivision Name2 — Montérégie • Subdivision Type3 — RCM • Subdivision Name3 — Vaudreuil-Soulanges • Established Title1 — Constituted • Established Date1 — July 1, 1855 • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Marc Deslauriers • Leader Title1 — Federal riding • Leader Name1 — Vaudreuil • Leader Title2 — Prov. riding • Leader Name2 — Vaudreuil • Area Total Km2 — 5.50 • Area Land Km2 — 5.55 • Area Note — There is an apparent contradiction between two authoritative sources. • Population Total — 10756 • Population As Of — 2016 • Population Density Km2 — 1938.4 • Population Blank1 Title — Pop 2011-2016 • Population Blank1 — 2.4% • Population Blank2 Title — Dwellings • Population Blank2 — 4831 • Timezone — EST • Utc Offset — −05:00 • Timezone Dst — EDT • Utc Offset Dst — −04:00 • Postal Code Type — Postal code(s) • Postal Code — J7V • Area Codes — 514 and 438 • Blank Name — Highways • Website — www.ile-perrot.qc.ca

The island was granted on October 29, 1672, to François-Marie Perrot (1644-1691), captain in the Picardy Regiment and governor of Montreal in 1670. In 1786, the place received its first parish priest. In 1845, the Municipality of l'Isle-Perrot was founded, abolished in 1847, and re-established in 1855 as the Parish Municipality of Sainte-Jeanne-Chantal-de-l'Isle-Perrot (partially taking the name of the Sainte-Jeanne-Chantal Parish established there in 1832). In 1946, its name was changed to L'Île-Perrot, and in 1955, it changed statutes from parish municipality to ville. In 1949, L'Île-Perrot greatly reduced in size when a large part of its territory was split off to form the new Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, L'Île-Perrot had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of 5.46 km2, it had a population density of sqmi in 2021. • Canada Census Mother Tongue - L'Île-Perrot, Quebec • Census — Total — French — English — French & English — Other • Year — Responses — Count — Trend — Pop % — Count — Trend — Pop % — Count — Trend — Pop % — Count — Trend — Pop % • 6,840 — 7.1% — 66.31% — 2,140 — 31.3% — 20.75% — 185 — 85.0% — 1.79% — 1,150 — 57.5% — 11.15% • 7,365 — 0.8% — 74.96% — 1,630 — 14.0% — 16.59% — 100 — 9.1% — 1.02% — 730 — 73.8% — 7.43% • 7,305 — 0.1% — 78.85% — 1,430 — 8.3% — 15.43% — 110 — 15.8% — 1.19% — 420 — 33.3% — 4.53% • 7,295 — n/a — 80.83% — 1,320 — n/a — 14.63% — 95 — n/a — 1.05% — 315 — n/a — 3.49%

List of former mayors: • Ludger Stocker (1955) • Florian Bleau (1955–1973) • Marcel Rainville (1973–1977) • René Émard (1977–1981) • Pierre Bleau (1981–1989) • Michel Martin (1989–1990) • Claude Girouard (1990–1993) • François Grégoire (1993–1997) • Marc Roy (1997–2017) • Pierre Séguin (2017–present)

Autoroute 20 runs through the town, with three at-grade intersections serving as exits. The east side of L'Île-Perrot is bordered by a branch of the Ottawa River with a crossing via Autoroute 20 over the Galipeault Bridge (Pont Galipeault) to Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue on Montreal Island. There is a shuttle bus service operated by CIT La Presqu'Île connecting to the Île-Perrot station on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.

There are 3 francophone elementary schools (Virginie Roy, François-Perrot and La Perdriolle) and an adult education centre in L'Île-Perrot, all run by the Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs. Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools. The community is zoned to Dorset Elementary School in Baie-d'Urfé.