Hampstead, Quebec
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Hampstead Town Hall
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| Nickname(s): Garden City | ||
 Location on the Island of Montreal. (Outlined areas indicate demerged municipalities). |
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| Coordinates: 45°29′N 73°38′W / 45.483°N 73.633°WCoordinates: 45°29′N 73°38′W / 45.483°N 73.633°W | ||
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 Canada
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 Quebec
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| Region | Montreal | |
| RCM | None | |
| Constituted | January 1, 2006 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | William Steinberg | |
| • Federal riding | Mount Royal | |
| • Prov. riding | D'Arcy-McGee | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 1.80 km2 (0.69 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 1.79 km2 (0.69 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 7,153 | |
| • Density | 3,996.5/km2 (10,351/sq mi) | |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 2.2% |
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| • Dwellings | 2,656 | |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) | |
| Postal code(s) | H3X | |
| Area code(s) | 514 and 438 | |
| Highways | No major routes | |
| Website | www |
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Hampstead is an affluent on-island suburb of Montreal, Quebec. Despite its status as an independent municipality, the town itself is engulfed by the boroughs of Montreal creating a garden city setting within an urban environment.
The Town of Hampstead was founded in 1914. It was designed to be an exclusive garden city. There are no retail shops within municipal boundaries. Houses were assigned relatively large lots to allow space for trees and shrubbery. The town's roads were designed with curves in order to slow down traffic and to create an interesting and intimate landscape. Despite its rather flat topography—much of the territory was once a golf course—the town was named after another garden city, the London suburb of Hampstead Village. Like its namesake, Hampstead is the home of many affluent citizens, and competes with a few other suburbs for first place in the rankings of highest average household incomes in Canada.
On January 1, 2002, as part of the 2002–06 municipal reorganization of Montreal, it was merged with Côte-Saint-Luc and Montreal West and became the Côte-Saint-Luc–Hampstead–Montréal-Ouest borough of the City of Montreal. However, after a change of government and a 2004 referendum, all three were re-constituted as independent cities on January 1, 2006.
Hampstead Park has a public pool, two basketball courts, three baseball fields, ten tennis courts, soccer fields, a beach volleyball court and a play area for children. In the winter two ice rinks are built where the children play and skate.
In the November 6, 2005 municipal elections, William Steinberg was elected mayor of Hampstead. Steinberg was the first new mayor after 4 years of civic control by Gérald Tremblay, when Hampstead was part of Montreal. Until Hampstead merged with Montreal, Irving Adessky had been mayor for 27 years (1974-2001). In his honour, the community centre has been renamed after him. Steinberg was re-elected on November 1, 2009 defeating former town councillor David Sternthal with 61% of the vote. On November 3, 2013 Mayor Steinberg was reelected for a third term defeating former town councillor Bonnie Feigenbaum with 61.21% of the vote (voter turnout was 44.5%).
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