# L'Île-Perrot

The Town of Île-Perrot (French/official name: Ville de l'Île-Perrot, pronounced) is a town and municipality on Île Perrot in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2016 Census was 10,756. The town is at the western end of Lake Saint-Louis, and borders the local island communities of Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Pincourt and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot. It also includes Dowker Island and the small Claude and Bellevue Islands (Île Claude and Île Bellevue).

## History

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.

## Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, L'Île-Perrot had a population of 11,638 living in 4,997 of its 5,150 total private dwellings, a change of 8.2% from its 2016 population of 10,756. With a land area of 5.46 km$^2$ (2.11 sq mi), it had a population density of 2,131.5/km$^2$ (5,520.6/sq mi) in 2021.
Canada Census Mother Tongue - L'Île-Perrot, Quebec :
| Census | Total | French | French | French | English | English | English | French & English | French & English | French & English | Other | Other | Other |
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % |
| 2011 | 10,315 | 6,840 | 7.1% | 66.31% | 2,140 | 31.3% | 20.75% | 185 | 85.0% | 1.79% | 1,150 | 57.5% | 11.15% |
| 2006 | 9,825 | 7,365 | 0.8% | 74.96% | 1,630 | 14.0% | 16.59% | 100 | 9.1% | 1.02% | 730 | 73.8% | 7.43% |
| 2001 | 9,265 | 7,305 | 0.1% | 78.85% | 1,430 | 8.3% | 15.43% | 110 | 15.8% | 1.19% | 420 | 33.3% | 4.53% |
| 1996 | 9,025 | 7,295 | n/a | 80.83% | 1,320 | n/a | 14.63% | 95 | n/a | 1.05% | 315 | n/a | 3.49% |

## Local government

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)

## Transportation

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.

## Education

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.