Saint-François, Quebec
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Saint-François (before Saint-François-de-Sales) is the second largest neighbourhood of Laval, Quebec, Canada, after Duvernay. It was a separate city until the 1965 municipal mergers.
Agriculture occupies most of the land area. Located at the extreme east of Île Jésus (Laval), it is bounded on the:
- North by the Rivière des Mille Îles;
- South by the Rivière des Prairies;
- West by the neighbourhood of Auteuil
- South by the neighbourhood of Duvernay.
A residential agglomeration formed in the southeast of the neighbourhood. Construction of a bridge (future 
Autoroute 25) that would link with Montreal has been controversial. Ecologists oppose it because the bridge would destroy a wet microclimate where rare species live.
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[edit] Demographics
In 2001, the population of St-François is estimated at 16.225, an almost stationary level compared to 1996. The population of St-François remains relatively young; 9,4% are seniors and the average age is 35.9 years old.
St-François is one of the most homogeneous districts on the linguistic level; whereas 88.5% of the population have French as mother tongue and more than 90% of them use that language at home.
90,5% are Catholic Christian. Cultural diversity of the borough appears by a strong presence of visible minorities which 13,0% of the population represent, just a little less than Chomedey.
86,3% of the households are owners (of a bungalow in 92,9% of the cases) and nearly 40% of the houses were built since 1981. The household size is one of the biggest in Laval with an average of three people. However, the number of single-parent families strongly increased since 1996 to reach 15,9% of total families.
St-François is, after Laval-West, the district that are less educated in Laval. Only 12.6% of 20-year-old population and over reached the university and 69.1% have their high school diploma.
The ratio of female population strongly increased by 56.2 to 62.1% in St François and the unemployment rate moved back from 9% to 7%, a level higher than the average.
The working population concentrates especially in services sectors (76.5%) and the most important professional category is retail sales and the services (24.6%). The labour of St-François is among those that count fewer managers (6.8%). It is also noted that only 33.5% of workers are employment on the territory of Laval. The average income of families in St-François is estimated at $59.139/year, approximately $6.000 lower than the municipal average. On the other hand, with 14.1% people living under the low-income threshold, a significant fall compared to 1996, the borough is somewhat under the average.
[edit] Politics
Saint-Francois is part of the provincial electoral district of Mille-Îles (represented in the Quebec National Assembly) and federal electoral district of Alfred-Pellan (represented in the Canadian House of Commons).
[edit] Provincial (Quebec National Assembly)
- Bernard Lachance, Liberal (1973-1976)
- Guy Joron, Parti Québécois (1976-1981)
- Jean-Paul Champagne, Parti Québécois (1981-1985)
- Jean-Pierre Bélisle, Liberal (1985-1994)
- Lyse Leduc, Parti Québécois (1994-2003)
- Maurice Clermont, Liberal (2003-present)
[edit] Federal (Canadian House of Commons)
- Vincent Della Noce, Progressive Conservative (1984-1993) Laval East District
- Maud Debien, Bloc Québécois (1993-2000) Laval East District
- Carole-Marie Allard, Liberal (2000-2004) Laval East District
- Robert Carrier, Bloc Québécois (2004-present) Alfred-Pellan District
[edit] External links
- City of Laval, official website
- Saint Francis Mission - Catholic Encyclopedia article on the historic Jesuit mission
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