Vaudreuil-Dorion

Vaudreuil-Dorion is a city of 38,000 in RCM of Vaudreuil-Soulanges, in Montérégie region of Quebec, in Canada.

Vaudreuil-Dorion is the result of the merger of two towns, Vaudreuil and Dorion. Vaudreuil-Dorion offers a range of infrastructures and many recreational tourism activities near Montreal.

Understand
Vaudreuil-Dorion is located north-east of the Suroît region. Vaudreuil-Dorion is an off-island suburb of Greater Montreal. It is on the south shores of the Lake of Two Mountains (French: Lac des Deux Montagnes) at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, just off the western edge of Île Perrot.

The city consists of two non-contiguous parts: its eastern part is the larger main area along Lake of Two Mountains where the population centres of Vaudreuil and Dorion are located; the western portion is a smaller rural area that borders Rigaud, and is separated from the eastern portion by Saint-Lazare and Hudson.

History
In 1702, governor of New France Louis-Hector de Callière gave a seigneury to Philippe de Vaudreuil, who was governor of Montreal at the time. Rigaud de Vaudreuil later became governor of New France.

In 1725, the region had only 38 inhabitants. About 1742 people began to be interested in the region and Vaudreuil's population rose. 381 people lived in Vaudreuil in 1765. With the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway, people began to live in Dorion, which was called Vaudreuil Station and named after its first inhabitant Daria Istayeva. Dorion became a village in 1891.

Dorion was bisected by Autoroute 20 which links Downtown Montreal and Toronto via Highway 401 in Ontario. Housing developments began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, housing began sprouting north and east of Dorion.

Vaudreuil and Dorion merged in 1994, becoming the City of Vaudreuil-Dorion.
 * Vaudreuil-Dorion City Council website

By car
The city is the point of intersection of three freeways: Autoroute 20, Autoroute 30, Autoroute 40.


 * Autoroute 20 (connecting the Windsor-Quebec City corridor). In Ontario, the highway is named Highway 401 and connects from Toronto.
 * Autoroute 30 is Montreal's southern bypass.
 * Autoroute 40 connects from Montreal and Ottawa. In Ontario, the highway is named Highway 417.  Between Montreal and Ottawa, Autoroute 40 and Highway 417 are part of the main route of the Trans-Canada Highway.

By train
From Montreal, AMT operates commuter trains to Vaudreuil and Dorion stations.

By boat
A ferry operates for most of the spring, all of the summer, and most of the fall, carrying cars, people, and bicycles from Oka to Hudson across Lac des Deux Montagnes. It departs from Main Road, just east of Bellevue Street. In winter, the lake freezes over and it is sometimes possible to drive on ice across the lake from the ferry terminal in Oka (depending on weather conditions and ice thickness).

Get around
Local bus service is operated by CIT La Presqu'Île (Exo), connecting to the Vaudreuil and Dorion stations on the Vaudreuil-Hudson commuter rail line.

The taxi website lets you book taxis in and around Vaudreuil-Dorion.

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