Mille-Isles is a municipality in the Laurentides

Laurentides (region)

The Laurentides is a region of Quebec. While it is often called the Laurentians in English, the region includes only part of the Laurentian mountains...

 region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality

Argenteuil Regional County Municipality, Quebec

Argenteuil Regional County Municipality is located in southern Quebec, Canada, part of the Laurentides region. The Regional County Municipality seat is Lachute.-History:...

, west of Saint-Jérôme

Saint-Jérôme, Quebec

Saint-Jérôme is a town in Quebec, Canada, near Mirabel, about northwest of Montreal along Autoroute des Laurentides. The town is a gateway to the Laurentian Mountains and its resorts....

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Mille-Isles is in the Laurentian Hills

Laurentian mountains

The Laurentian Mountains are a mountain range in southern Quebec, Canada, north of the St. Lawrence River and Ottawa River, rising to a highest point of 1166 metres at Mont Raoul Blanchard, north east of Quebec City in the Reserve Faunique des Laurentides. The Gatineau, L'Assomption, Lièvre,...

, crossed by rivers and dotted with fish-filled lakes.

History

The municipality is named after the old Mille-Isles Seigneury

Seigneurial system of New France

The seigneurial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land distribution used in the North American colonies of New France.-Introduction to New France:...

, which originally straddled the Mille Îles River

Rivière des Mille Îles

The Rivière des Mille Îles is a channel of the Ottawa River in southwestern Quebec, Canada and runs into the Rivière des Prairies....

 (the seigneury uses the old spelling, whereas the river uses the modern word that substitutes a circumflex

Circumflex

The circumflex is a diacritic used in the written forms of many languages, and is also commonly used in various romanization and transcription schemes. It received its English name from Latin circumflexus —a translation of the Greek περισπωμένη...

 for the "s"). In 1683, the seigneury was granted to Michel-Sidrac Dugué de Boisbriand (circa 1638-1688), who was governor of Montreal in 1670. In 1714, it was inherited by Charles-Gaspard Piot de Langloiserie (circa 1655-1715) and Jean Petit (1663-1720), husbands of Marie-Thérèse Dugué and Charlotte Dugué respectively, daughters of the first lord. In 1752, additional land in the extreme north-west of the Mille-Isles Seigneury was given to Eustache Lambert Dumont and it is within this part that the municipality is located.

The first settlers were from Ireland and arrived around 1850. The municipality was officially founded in 1855, following separation from the parish of Saint-Jérôme.

Demographics

Population:

• Population in 2006: 1480 (2001 to 2006 population change: 22.4 %)
• Population in 2001: 1209
• Population in 1996: 1157
• Population in 1991: 944

Total private dwellings, excluding seasonal cottages: 608 (total: 831)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 28 %
• French as first language: 69 %
• English and French as first language: 1 %
• Other as first language: 2 %