Montréal-Ouest
city in Quebec, Canada
Montréal-Ouest (French for 'Montreal West', pronounced [mɔ̃ʁeal wɛst] ) is an on-island municipality in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the Island of Montreal.
Montréal-Ouest is a small, close-knit community made up primarily of single-family dwellings.
Sherbrooke Street, a major artery spanning most of the Island of Montreal, has its western terminus here, beginning at a T-intersection with the town's main street, Westminster Avenue.
History
In 1897, the Town of Montreal West was created when it separated from the Village Municipality of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Ouest. It had 50 houses and a population of 350 persons at that time. Its town hall was built in 1910.
On January 1, 2002, as part of the 2002–2006 municipal reorganization in Montreal, Montreal West and the neighbouring suburbs of Côte-Saint-Luc and Hampstead were merged into the City of Montreal and became the borough of Côte-Saint-Luc–Hampstead–Montreal West. Following a change of government and a 2004 referendum in which the population voted to de-merge by a wide margin, Montreal West was reconstituted as an independent city on January 1, 2006.
Demographics
In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada, Montréal-Ouest had a population of 5,115 living in 1,943 of its 2,031 total private dwellings, a change of 1.3% from its 2016 population of 5,050. With a land area of 1.37 km2 (0.53 sq mi), it had a population density of 3,733.6/km2 (9,669.9/sq mi) in 2021.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q138997. VIAF identifies the subject as 316884207. Authority coordinates are 45.454, -73.647. 5 of 8 selected statements include explicit references; 6 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1897, 1910, 2002 and 2006.
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