Côte Saint-Luc

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Côte Saint-Luc (French pronunciation: [kot sɛ̃ lyk] ) is a city on the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada. A residential suburb bordered mostly by boroughs of the city of Montreal and by the towns of Hampstead and Montreal West, it is one of the fifteen suburban municipalities that, with Montreal, form the urban agglomeration of Montreal. With 34,504 residents at the 2021 Canadian census, it is the third most populous municipality on the island after Montreal and Dollard-des-Ormeaux. The name records one of the côtes, or rows of long farm lots, into which the Sulpician seigneurs divided the island under the French regime; the côte Saint-Luc was farmed by French-Canadian families for two centuries and had some 200 inhabitants in 1818. Detached from the village of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-Ouest and incorporated as a village in 1903, it lost its north-eastern lots to the new town of Hampstead in 1914 and still counted fewer than 800 people in 1941. After the Second World War it was transformed...

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