Sault-au-Récollet

Coordinates: 45°34′40″N 73°38′45″W / 45.57764°N 73.64582°W / 45.57764; -73.64582
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Recollet Rapids
Sault-au-Récollet
Visitation Church
Recollet Rapids is located in Montreal
Recollet Rapids
Recollet Rapids
Location of Sault-au-Récollet in Montreal
Coordinates: 45°34′40″N 73°38′45″W / 45.57764°N 73.64582°W / 45.57764; -73.64582
CountryCanada
ProvinceQuebec
CityMontreal
BoroughAhuntsic-Cartierville

Sault-au-Récollet (Recollet Rapids, in English) is a neighbourhood in Montreal. It is located in the eastern edge of the borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville bordering the Rivière des Prairies. Autoroute 19 connects Sault-au-Récollet to the city of Laval. The neighbourhood was designated as a heritage site by the city of Montreal in 1992.[1]

The Church of the Visitation at Sault-au-Récollet is the oldest church on the Island of Montreal, was built between 1749 and 1752. The Streetcar suburb was annexed by the former Montreal borough of Ahuntsic-Bordeaux in 1918. A housing boom, mostly made up of multiplexes, followed in the 1940s and 1950s.

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References

  1. ^ "Neighbourhood Sault-au-Récollet - Discovery". NEIGHBOURHOODS AND SITES. Heritage Montreal. Retrieved 30 April 2012.

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