Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville

Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
City
	Downtown Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville
	Coat of arms
	Motto(s): Fiers de nos traditions; (French for "Proud of our traditions")
	Location within the urban agglomeration of Longueuil
	St-Bruno-de-Montarville Location in southern Quebec
	Coordinates: 45°32′N 73°21′W / 45.533°N 73.350°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montérégie
RCM	None
Agglomeration	Longueuil
Founded	1842
Constituted	1 January 2006
Government
• Mayor	Ludovic Grisé Farand
• MP	Stéphane Bergeron (BQ)
• MNA	Nathalie Roy (CAQ)
Area
• Total	43.30 km2 (16.72 sq mi)
• Land	42.85 km2 (16.54 sq mi)
Population (2021)
• Total	26,273
• Density	613.2/km2 (1,588/sq mi)
• Pop 2016-2021	0.3%
• Dwellings	10,629
Demonym(s)	Montarvillois,(e) (French)
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	450 and 579
Highways; A-30	; R-116
Website	www.stbruno.ca

Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the south bank of the Saint Lawrence River just east of Montreal. It lies on the west flank of Mont Saint-Bruno, one of the Monteregian Hills. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 26,273.^[4]

The city is well known to Montrealers and its neighbouring population for Mont Saint-Bruno, location to both Mont-Saint-Bruno National Park and Ski Mont Saint-Bruno, a ski facility and school.

There are two prevailing hypotheses on the origin of the city's name:

That the city was named after Bruno of Cologne and the Montarville seigneury. The name "Montarville" is a homonym of a village of Eure-et-Loir in France: Montharville, whose etymology is uncertain. The name was written in its Latin form, Mons Harvilla in the 12th century^[5] – in other words "Haric's farm's mount", a name of Germanic origins also found in Harville (Hairici villa, 9th century). However, this uncommon composition of a Roman appellation ("mont") associated with the Norman toponymy "-ville" place name casts doubts on this explication. It could be the name of an unidentified Germanic individual.
Quebec's toponymy commission suggests another hypothesis to explain the origin of the city's name. "Montarville" could be a portmanteau of "montagne" (French for mountain) and "Boucherville" after Pierre Boucher de Boucherville, the region's first seigneur. The hypothesis rests on the fact that the descendants of de Boucherville were named Montarville, Niverville, etc. The patron saint of the city could be explained by the sale of the seigneury to François-Pierre Bruneau, whose name was slightly transformed.^[1]