Pointe-des-Cascades () is a village municipality in Vaudreuil-Soulanges Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on a spit of land where the St. Lawrence River flows into Lake Saint-Louis. The river has here a significant drop, forming several cascades which give the village its name. The islands of Île des Cascades and Île des Joybert are connected by a narrow causeway, but Île des Cascades and Pointe-des-Cascades are only connected artificially.

History Starting in the mid-seventeenth century until 1700, many military expeditions arrived at this place in order to portage around the cascades on the Saint Lawrence River. The first reference to Pointe-des-Cascades appeared in a text of Louis-Armand de Lahontan in 1684 and on a map of Deshayes in 1695, when Pointe des Cascades was included in the Vaudreuil Lordship.

In 1893, the post office opened under the English name Cascades Point (renamed in 1951 to Pointe-des-Cascades). A few years later construction began on the Soulanges Canal and when it was completed in 1899, the village became the eastern, downstream terminus of the canal. In 1958, it closed when it was superseded by the new Beauharnois Canal. The paths along the canal are now used as a regional cycling route.

In 1961, the Village Municipality of Pointe-des-Cascades was formed on the territory of the Parish Municipalities of Saint-Joseph-de-Soulanges (now Les Cèdres) and Saint-Michel-de-Vaudreuil (now part of Vaudreuil-Dorion).

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pointe-des-Cascades had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

Canada Census mother tongue - Pointe-des-Cascades, Quebec Census Total Year responses Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % 1,335 8.1% 75.2% 230 58.6% 13.0% 55 175.0% 3.1% 145 81.3% 8.2% 1,235 4.7% 83.4% 145 45.0% 9.8% 20 20.0% 1.4% 80 128.6% 5.4% 1,180 19.8% 88.1% 100 185.7% 7.5% 25 n/a% 1.9% 35 133.3% 2.6% 985 13.2% 95.2% 35 22.2% 3.4% 0 0.0% 0.0% 15 n/a% 1.5% 870 2.2% 95.1% 45 350.0% 4.9% 0 100.0% 0.0% 0 100.0% 0.0% 890 n/a 96.7% 10 n/a 1.1% 10 n/a 1.1% 10 n/a 1.1%

Local government

+Pointe-des-Cascades federal election results Year Liberal Conservative Bloc Québécois New Democratic Green 2021 32% 273 18% 154 36% 300 9% 79 2% 14 2019 38% 349 6% 56 38% 350 10% 88 6% 53

+Pointe-des-Cascades provincial election results Year CAQ Liberal QC solidaire Parti Québécois 2018 48% 447 21% 200 15% 140 12% 108 2014 0% 0 39% 294 13% 101 42% 322

Pointe-des-Cascades forms part of the federal electoral district of Salaberry—Suroît and has been represented by Claude DeBellefeuille of the Bloc Québécois since 2019. Provincially, Pointe-des-Cascades is part of the Soulanges electoral district and is represented by Marilyne Picard of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.

List of former mayors: Joseph-Pierre-Amable Clément (1961–1968, 1971–1979) Joseph-Bruno-Germain Vallée (1968–1971) Joseph-Thomas-Ronald-Maurice Hayes (1979–2005) Francis Masse (2005–2007) Jean-Pierre Dupont (2007–2008) Maryse Morin Sauvé (2008–2013) Gilles Santerre (2013–2020) Pierre Lalonde (interim 2020) Peter Zytynsky (2021–present)

Education Commission Scolaire des Trois-Lacs operates Francophone schools.

Lester B. Pearson School Board operates Anglophone schools. It is zoned to Birchwood Elementary School in Saint-Lazare and St. Patrick Elementary School in Pincourt."School Board Map ." Lester B. Pearson School Board. Retrieved on September 28, 2017.

See also List of anglophone communities in Quebec List of village municipalities in Quebec

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