Saint-Jérôme, Quebec
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 Location within La Rivière-du-Nord RCM. |
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| Coordinates: 45°47′N 74°00′W / 45.783°N 74.000°WCoordinates: 45°47′N 74°00′W / 45.783°N 74.000°W | ||
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 Quebec
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| Region | Laurentides | |
| RCM | La Rivière-du-Nord | |
| Settled | 1834 | |
| Constituted | January 1, 2002 | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Marc Gascon | |
| • Mayor-elect | Stéphane Maher | |
| • Federal riding | Rivière-du-Nord | |
| • Prov. riding | Saint-Jérôme | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 92.90 km2 (35.87 sq mi) | |
| • Land | 90.52 km2 (34.95 sq mi) | |
| Population (2011) | ||
| • Total | 68,456 | |
| • Density | 756.3/km2 (1,959/sq mi) | |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 7.4% |
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| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) | |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) | |
| Postal code(s) | J5L, J7Y, J7Z | |
| Area code(s) | 450 and 579 | |
Highways A-15
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  Route 117 (TCH) Route 158 Route 333
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| Website | www |
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Saint-Jérôme (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ ʒeʁom])(2011 Population 68,456) is an off-island suburb of Montreal, located about 60 kilometres (37 mi) northwest of Montreal along Autoroute des Laurentides. The town is a gateway to the Laurentian Mountains and its resorts.
The town is named after Saint Jerome (ca. 347 – September 30, 420), a church father best known as the translator of the Bible from Greek and Hebrew into Latin. His translation is known as the Vulgate.
The territory where the present city of Saint-Jérôme now stands was granted in 1752 by the marquis de la Jonquière, governor of New France, as the seignory of Augmentation des Mille-Iles (literally "enlargement" of the seignory of Mille-Iles). From the 1760s to the 1840s, the seignory was owned by the Dumont and Lefebvre de Bellefeuille families, living in the town of Saint-Eustache, 25 kilometers (16 mi) to the south. The Dumont and the Lefebvre conceded the farmland to colonists coming mostly from the region lying north of Montreal. The emerging town was then known under the name of Dumontville. The Catholic parish of Saint-Jérôme was constituted on November 15, 1834 and the village itself was constituted on July 1, 1845 by governor Metcalfe.
François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle, a Roman Catholic priest who was the great "colonizer" (promoter of settlement) of the North of Montreal, was in charge of the pastoral administration of Saint-Jérôme of 1868 until his death, in 1891. Eight years after his arrival, he had a railroad built linking Saint-Jérôme and Montreal.
Antoine Labelle was the parish priest of Saint-Jérôme for 22 years, from 1868 until his death, at 57 years of age, on January 4, 1891. He was called "the king of North, the apostle of colonization".
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