Delson | |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Montérégie |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Roussillon |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | January 4, 1918 |
Government Footnotes: | [1] |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Christian Ouellette |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | La Prairie |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | La Prairie |
Area Footnotes: | [2] |
Area Total Km2: | 7.70 |
Area Land Km2: | 7.64 |
Population Footnotes: | [3] |
Population Total: | 8328 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Density Km2: | 1089.6 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2016–2021 |
Population Blank1: | 11.7% |
Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
Population Blank2: | 3561 |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | J5B |
Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Blank Info: |
Delson is an off-island suburb (South shore) of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is situated 8 mi/13 km SSE of Montreal within the regional county municipality of Roussillon in the administrative region of Montérégie. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 8,328.
On its small territory, Delson is crossed by Route 132 and the Turtle River (Rivière de la Tortue). The city owns a portion of the Champlain industrial park as well as the Delson commuter train station with service to and from Montreal on the AMT's Candiac Line.
The origin of the name Delson comes from the Delaware and Hudson Railway, now a subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which runs through the town. The Canadian Railway Museum (Exporail) occupies a large tract between Delson and Saint-Constant.
Delson was founded in 1918 as a village municipality before obtaining its status of a city 21 February 1957. The village of Delson was created from three parishes: St Andrews (1924) of the United Church and St David (1938) of the Anglican church, as well as Sainte-Thérèse-de-l'Enfant-Jésus (1932) of the Catholic faith.
The city lies along the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River, south of the island of Montreal.
The following waterways pass through or are situated within the municipality's boundaries:
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Delson had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 7.64km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
Canada Census Mother Tongue – Delson, Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
6,785 | 6.6% | 81.5% | 485 | 18.3% | 5.8% | 160 | 33.3% | 1.9% | 790 | 53.4% | 9.5% | ||||||||
6,365 | 2.1% | 85.4% | 410 | 2.4% | 5.5% | 120 | 60.0% | 1.6% | 515 | 19.8% | 6.9% | ||||||||
6,500 | 0.9% | 87.5% | 420 | 18.4% | 5.7% | 75 | 15.4% | 1.0% | 430 | 50.9% | 5.8% | ||||||||
6,440 | 1.6% | 88.2% | 515 | 102.0% | 7.1% | 65 | n/a% | 0.9% | 285 | 32.6% | 3.9% | ||||||||
6,545 | 8.5% | 93.3% | 255 | 42.7% | 3.6% | 0 | 100.0% | 0.0% | 215 | 72.0% | 3.1% | ||||||||
6,030 | n/a | 90.1% | 445 | n/a | 6.6% | 95 | n/a | 1.4% | 125 | n/a | 1.9% |
Delson is the hometown of retired NHL goalie Marcel Cousineau.