L'Île-Perrot

The Town of Île-Perrot (French/official name: Ville de l'Île-Perrot) 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 NaN% from its 2016 population of $10,756$. With a land area of 5.46 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

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.