Longue-Pointe

Not to be confused with the Longue-Pointe in Côte-Nord that was renamed Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan in 1997.

For the modern area in Montreal, see Mercier-Ouest.

Longue-Pointe was a Montreal neighbourhood now located in the borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve. The neighborhood was permanently divided by the construction of the Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine Tunnel. Most of its territory is now part of the Mercier-Ouest while some of the area that fell east of the highway is now within Mercier-Est.

It is best known for its military base, CFB Longue-Pointe, the supply depot for all of Eastern Canada's armed forces. Around 2000 civilians and soldiers work at CFB Longue Pointe.^[1]

The Isle of Montreal in 1764. Longue Pointe is opposite Longueuil, which is on the right side of the map.

Longue-Pointe was the site of a famous battle in the American Revolutionary War in 1775, in which Ethan Allen made an ill-fated attempt to capture Montreal from the Kingdom of Great Britain.

References

↑ "Une base militaire en plein cœur de Montréal". Le Canal Nouvelles (in French). Groupe TVA (Quebecor Media Inc.). 2009-05-29. Retrieved 2009-06-08.

External links

Atelier d'histoire de la Longue-Pointe

Urban agglomeration of Montreal

Greater Montreal

Municipalities	Côte-Saint-Luc Hampstead Montreal Montréal-Est Montreal West Mount Royal Westmount

West Island municipalities	Baie-D'Urfé Beaconsfield Dollard-des-Ormeaux Dorval Kirkland L'Île-Dorval Pointe-Claire Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Senneville

Boroughs of Montreal	Ahuntsic-Cartierville Anjou Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève Lachine LaSalle Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Montréal-Nord Outremont Pierrefonds-Roxboro Le Plateau-Mont-Royal Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie Le Sud-Ouest Saint-Laurent Saint-Léonard Verdun Ville-Marie Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

Neighbourhoods of Montreal	Ahuntsic Benny Farm Bois-Franc Cartierville Centre-Sud Chinatown Cité du Havre Cité Multimédia Côte-des-Neiges Côte-Saint-Paul Darlington Downtown Faubourg à m'lasse Faubourg Saint-Laurent Garment District Gay Village Glenmount Golden Square Mile Goose Village Greektown Griffintown Habitations Jeanne-Mance Historic Jewish Quarter Hochelaga-Maisonneuve La Petite-Patrie L'Île-Bizard Îlot-Trafalgar-Gleneagles Little Burgundy Little Italy Little Maghreb Little Portugal Mercier-Est (Tétreaultville) Mercier-Ouest (Longue-Pointe) Mile End Milton Park Monkland Village Notre-Dame-de-Grâce Nouveau-Bordeaux Nuns' Island Old Montreal Olympic Park Overdale Park Extension Pierrefonds Pointe-Saint-Charles Pointe-aux-Trembles Quad Windsor Quartier Bonaventure Quartier Concordia Quartier International Quartier Latin Quartier du Musée Quartier des spectacles Red-Light District Rivière-des-Prairies Rosemont Roxboro Saint-Henri Sainte-Marie Saint-Michel Sainte-Geneviève Saraguay Sault-au-Récollet Shaughnessy Village Snowdon Technoparc Le Triangle Viauville Ville-Émard Ville Saint-Pierre Villeray

Former municipalities of Montreal Island	Cartierville Longue-Pointe Mercier New Bordeaux Pierrefonds Roxboro Saint-Laurent Tétreaultville

Administrative subdivisions of Quebec Urban agglomerations of Quebec Municipal reorganization in Quebec

Coordinates: 45°35′0″N 73°31′0″W / 45.58333°N 73.51667°W / 45.58333; -73.51667 (Ville-Émard)

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