Mascouche

{{Other uses}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox settlement | name = Mascouche | official_name = | settlement_type = City | image_skyline = | imagesize = | image_caption = | image_flag = | flag_size = | image_shield = Blason de Mascouche.svg | shield_size = 100x90px | image_blank_emblem = | blank_emblem_size = 100x90px | nickname = | motto = | image_map = Mascouche Quebec location diagram.png | map_caption = Location (red) within Les Moulins RCM | pushpin_map = Canada Central Quebec | pushpin_label_position = top | pushpin_label = | pushpin_map_caption = Location in central Quebec | coordinates = {{coord|45|45|N|73|36|W|region:CA-QC|display=inline,title}} | coor_pinpoint = | coordinates_footnotes = <ref name="toponymie"/> | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{CAN}} | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = {{QC}} | subdivision_type2 = Region | subdivision_name2 = Lanaudière | subdivision_type3 = RCM | subdivision_name3 = Les Moulins | established_title = Settled | established_date = | established_title1 = Constituted | established_date1 = July 1, 1855 | established_title2 = | established_date2 = | government_footnotes = <ref name="mamrot"/> | government_type = | leader_title = Mayor | leader_name = Guillaume Tremblay | leader_title1 = Federal riding | leader_name1 = Montcalm | leader_title2 = Prov. riding | leader_name2 = Masson | area_footnotes = <ref name="mamrot">[http://www.mamrot.gouv.qc.ca/repertoire-des-municipalites/fiche/municipalite/64015/ Ministère des Affaires municipales, des Régions et de l'Occupation du territoire]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?DGUIDlist=2021A00052464015&GENDERlist=1&HEADERlist=0&Lang=F&STATISTIClist=1&SearchText=Mascouche|title = Tableau des données, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021|date = February 9, 2022}}</ref> | area_total_km2 = 107.70 | area_land_km2 = 106.89 | area_water_km2 = | elevation_footnotes = | elevation_m = | population_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?DGUIDlist=2021A00052464015&GENDERlist=1&HEADERlist=0&Lang=F&STATISTIClist=1&SearchText=Mascouche|title = Tableau des données, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021|date = February 9, 2022}}</ref> | population_total = 51183 | population_as_of = 2021 | population_density_km2 = 478.8 | population_blank1_title = Pop 2016–2021 | population_blank1 = {{increase}} 9.6% | population_blank2_title = | population_blank2 = | timezone = EST | utc_offset = −5 | timezone_DST = EDT | utc_offset_DST = −4 | postal_code_type = Postal code(s) | postal_code = J7K, J7L | area_codes = 450 and 579 | blank_name = Highways {{jct|state=QC|A|25}} | blank_info = {{jct|state=QC|QC|125}} | website = {{URL|https://mascouche.ca/}} | footnotes = }}

'''Mascouche''' ({{IPAc-en|m|æ|s|ˈ|k|uː|ʃ}}; {{IPA|fr|maskuʃ|lang}}) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southern Quebec, Canada. The city is located on the Mascouche River within the Les Moulins Regional County Municipality and has a population of 51,183,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?DGUIDlist=2021A00052464015&GENDERlist=1&HEADERlist=0&Lang=F&STATISTIClist=1&SearchText=Mascouche|title = Tableau des données, Profil du recensement, Recensement de la population de 2021|date = February 9, 2022}}</ref> ranking 20th among Quebec municipalities.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gagnon|first1=Sylvie |last2=Tétreault |first2=François |last3=Coutu |first3=Jean-Claude |last4= Martel |first4=Claude |author5=Société d'histoire de Mascouche | title=Le Domaine seigneurial de Mascouche|isbn=978-2-9809653-3-3|oclc=1126650457|edition=1st |language=fr |publisher=Société de développement et d'animation de Mascouche (SODAM) |location=Mascouche, Québec|date=2019}}</ref>

The name comes from Algonquin word {{lang|alg|maskutchew}} meaning "bear plain" in singular. Compare plural form to {{lang|alg|maskutew}} for the Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality located nearby.

==History== Mascouche (then known as Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://histoire-du-quebec.ca/mascouche|title=Mascouche « Histoire du Québec|date=March 29, 2015 }}</ref> received city status on December 9, 1970, under mayor Gilles Forest.

On June 21, 2021, the city was struck by an EF2 tornado, killing one person.

==Infrastructure== Montréal/Mascouche Airport, the largest regional airport in Quebec, was three kilometres southeast of the city. It has now been replaced by the CentrOparc, a business district with the ambition of joining a transit-oriented urban development (DOT).

Highways 640 and 25, both major national transportation routes, meet just south of the centre of the city.

Mascouche is connected to Montreal's Central Station by commuter rail via the Mascouche station of the Réseau de transport métropolitain's Mascouche line.

L'Étang-du-Grand-Coteau, an urban park situated in the city centre on Mascouche Boulevard, has the same area as Mount Royal Park in Montreal.

== Demographics == {{stack|{{Historical populations | title= Historical Census Data - Mascouche, Quebec<ref name="scpast">Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2021, 2021 census</ref> | percentages = | shading = off | align = none | cols = | 1991 |25828 | 1996 |28097 | 2001 |29556 | 2006 |33764 | 2011 |42491 | 2016 |46692 | 2021 |51183 | footnote = }}}}

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Mascouche had a population of {{val|51183|fmt=commas}} living in {{val|19981|fmt=commas}} of its {{val|20290|fmt=commas}} total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:51183-46692}}|46692|1}} from its 2016 population of {{val|46692|fmt=commas}}. With a land area of {{convert|106.89|km2|sqmi|abbr=on}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|51183|106.89|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.<ref name=2021census>{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810000202&geocode=A000224 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=August 29, 2022}}</ref> {{Canada census |location = Mascouche |2021_population=51,183 | 2021_pop_delta=+9.6 | 2021_land_area=106.89 | 2021_pop_density=478.8 |2021_median_age=40.4 | 2021_median_age_m=39.6 | 2021_median_age_f=41.2 |2021_total_pvt_dwell=20,290 |2021_occ_pvt_dwell=19,981 |2021_mean_hh_income=93,000 |2021_geocode=2021A00052464015 | 2021_access_date=2023-10-19 |2011_population=42,491 |2011_pop_delta=+25.8 |2011_land_area=106.64 |2011_pop_density=398.4 |2011_median_age=36.5 |2011_median_age_m=36.2 |2011_median_age_f=36.9 |2011_total_pvt_dwell=16,290 |2011_mean_hh_income=70,673 |2011_access_date=2014-05-18 |2006_population=33,764 | 2006_pop_delta=+14.2 | 2006_land_area=106.64 | 2006_pop_density=316.6 |2006_median_age=36.6 | 2006_median_age_m=36.3 | 2006_median_age_f=36.9 |2006_total_pvt_dwell=12,398 | 2006_mean_hh_income=63,780 | 2006_access_date=2014-05-18 |2001_population=29,556 | 2001_pop_delta=+5.2 | 2001_land_area=106.63 | 2001_pop_density=277.2 |2001_median_age=35.3 | 2001_median_age_m=35.0 | 2001_median_age_f=35.6 |2001_total_pvt_dwell=10,102 |2001_mean_hh_income=53,499 | 2001_access_date=2014-05-18 |notes= }}

{| class="wikitable" !colspan="19"|Canada Census Mother Tongue - Mascouche, Quebec<ref name="scpast"/> |- ! Census | ! Total |colspan="1"| !colspan="3"|{{center|French}} |colspan="1"| !colspan="3"|{{center|English}} |colspan="1"| !colspan="3"|{{center|French & English}} |colspan="1"| !colspan="3"|{{center|Other}} |- ! Year | ! Responses | ! Count ! Trend ! Pop % | ! Count ! Trend ! Pop % | ! Count ! Trend ! Pop % | ! Count ! Trend ! Pop % |- | {{center|2016}} | | {{center|46 375}} | | 42 740 | {{increase}} 7.03% | 92.10% | | 1 150 | {{increase}} 12.17% | 2.47% | | 355 | {{increase}} 120.0% | 0.76% | | 1 840 | {{increase}} 39.39% | 3.96% |- | {{center|2011}} | | {{center|42,185}} | | 39,580 | {{increase}} 25.8% | 93.82% | | 1,010 | {{increase}} 5.2% | 2.39% | | 275 | {{increase}} 29.09% | 0.65% | | 1,320 | {{increase}} 26.3% | 3.13% |- | {{center|2006}} | | {{center|33,600}} | | 31,470 | {{increase}} 13.4% | 93.66% | | 960 | {{increase}} 17.1% | 2.86% | | 125 | {{decrease}} 40.5% | 0.37% | | 1,045 | {{increase}} 111.1% | 3.11% |- | {{center|2001}} | | {{center|29,285}} | | 27,760 | {{increase}} 5.0% | 94.79% | | 820 | {{decrease}} 9.4% | 2.80% | | 210 | {{increase}} 82.6% | 0.72% | | 495 | {{increase}} 3.1% | 1.69% |- | {{center|1996}} | | {{center|27,930}} | | 26,430 | n/a | 94.63% | | 905 | n/a | 3.24% | | 115 | n/a | 0.41% | | 480 | n/a | 1.72% |}

==Mayors== #André Duval (1955–1965) #Gilles Forest (1965–1983) #Bernard Patenaude (1983–1992) #Richard Marcotte (1992–2012) #Denise Paquette (2012–2013) #Guillaume Tremblay (2013–present)

==Education== {{expand section|date=September 2017}} The Commission scolaire des Affluents operates Francophone public schools. They include:

Primary schools: *L'école Aux 4 Vents *L'école De la Source *L'école La Mennais *L'école des Hauts-Bois *L'école Soleil-Levant *L'école Le Rucher *L'école de La Seigneurie

Secondary schools : * École secondaire Le Prélude * École secondaire Du Coteau

One professional school, École L'Impact.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board operates Anglophone public schools: * Pinewood Elementary School in Mascouche serves the western portion<ref>"[http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/155%20-%20WEB%20PINEWOOD.pdf PINEWOOD ELEMENTARY ZONE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917085453/http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/155%20-%20WEB%20PINEWOOD.pdf |date=September 17, 2017 }}." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.</ref> * Franklin Hill Elementary School in Repentigny serves the eastern portion<ref>"[http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/179%20-%20WEB%20FRANKLIN%20HILL.pdf FRANKLIN HILL ELEMENTARY ZONE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917091629/http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/179%20-%20WEB%20FRANKLIN%20HILL.pdf |date=September 17, 2017 }}." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on September 17, 2017.</ref> * Rosemere High School (all areas) in Rosemere<ref>"[http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/187%20-%20WEB%20ROSEMERE%20HS.pdf Rosemere High School Zone] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304141628/http://www.swlauriersb.qc.ca/docs/Transportation%20maps%20zone/187%20-%20WEB%20ROSEMERE%20HS.pdf |date=March 4, 2016 }}." Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. Retrieved on December 8, 2014.</ref>

==Famous residents== Mascouche is the hometown of baseball player Éric Gagné.

It is also Émilie Mondor's hometown, a Canadian Olympic athlete, who was a two-time national champion in the women's 5,000 metres.

==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="toponymie">{{toponymie |39528}}</ref> }}

==External links== *{{Official website|https://mascouche.ca/}} {{Geographic Location (8-way) | title = Adjacent Municipal Subdivisions | Centre = Mascouche | North = Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan | Northeast = L'Épiphanie | East = Repentigny | Southeast = | South = Terrebonne | Southwest = | West = Terrebonne | Northwest = }} {{Les Moulins RCM|state=expanded}} {{Greater Montreal}} {{Authority control}}

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