Everything about Saint-jean-sur-richelieu totally explained
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is a city in the province of
Quebec,
Canada about southeast of
Montreal. It is situated on the west bank of the
Richelieu River at the northernmost navigable point from
Lake Champlain.
As of 2006, the city's population was 87,492. (
Canada 2006 Census)
The city historically was an important transportation hub. The first rail line in North America connected it with
La Prairie in
1836. It is also the host of the "Festival International des Montgolfières", an international hot-air balloon festival, which attracts thousands of tourists that come to see the hundreds of balloons in the sky every year.
The
Chambly Canal extends north along the west bank of the river and provides modern freight passage to
Chambly and the
St. Lawrence River. The canal has one
lock near the downtown core of St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu. In the winter, the city builds a
skating rink on the canal near the lock. In the summer, the embankment on the east side of the canal has a
cycling path.
Known to the early English settlers as
St. Johns, the site was fortified in the
17th century. Later, the French built Fort St. Jean on the site. It provided an important communication link during the
French and Indian Wars. During the
American Revolutionary War control of the town
changed hands several times as the British and American forces moved through the area.
Today's St-Jean is a manufacturing centre of textiles, food and wood products. It hosts an Area Support Unit of the
Canadian Forces which acts as the primary recruitment and officer training establishment. Until
1995 ASU St-Jean housed
Le Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, a bilingual military academy. The only remaining military university in Canada was the
Royal Military College of Canada in
Kingston, Ontario from 1995-2007. The federal government will reopen the military college at St. Jean sur Richelieu in fall 2007 to provide a two-year program in French.
Its per capita income was $13,311 CAD or $25,309 CAD per wage earner.
In
2001, a new city organization was created as a regional county municipality including several adjoining communities, and the city's population was adjusted to 79,600. This merger was requested by the five municipalities involved, and wasn't part of the municipal fusions that were
decreed unilaterally by the
Parti Québecois government the next year. The amalgamated municipalities are as follows (with 2001 populations):
Sport
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu is the birthplace of all the
Formula 1 drivers family Villeneuve:
Gilles,
Jacques Sr. and
Jacques (
1997 World Champion).
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