Joliette is a city in southwest Quebec, Canada. It is approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) northeast of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of Greater Montreal. The city is home to the Joliette Art Museum, whose works of art include paintings, sculptures, paper artwork and a large collection of art from the French Middle Ages.

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Joliette
City
Ville de Joliette
Saint-Charles-Borromée Cathedral
Coat of arms
Location within Joliette RCM.
Joliette Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates: 46°01′N 73°27′W[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Lanaudière
RCM	Joliette
Constituted	November 12, 1966
Government [2]
• Mayor	Pierre-Luc Bellerose
• Federal riding	Joliette
• Prov. riding	Joliette
Area [2][3]
• City	23.60 km2 (9.11 sq mi)
• Land	22.97 km2 (8.87 sq mi)
• Metro [4]	108.80 km2 (42.01 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[3]
• City	20,484
• Density	891.8/km2 (2,310/sq mi)
• Metro [4]	49,439
• Metro density	454.4/km2 (1,177/sq mi)
• Pop 2011-2016	4.4%
• Dwellings	10,285
Demonym(s)	Joliettain, Joliettaine
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J6E
Area code(s)	450 and 579
Highways A-31	Route 131 Route 158 Route 343
Website	www.joliette.ca

Joliette has 3 Francophone high schools and 1 Anglophone high school, as well as the Joliette campus of the Cégep régional de Lanaudière.[5]

It was founded as L'Industrie by businessman Barthélemy Joliette in 1823 and was incorporated as a city in 1863.

The city's economy is mainly in the manufacturing and service sectors. The largest gravel manufacturer in the area, Graybec, is located in Joliette and exploits a huge quarry just outside the city.

Joliette is the seat of the judicial district of Joliette.[6]

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Joliette had a population of 21,384 living in 10,568 of its 11,153 total private dwellings, a change of 4.4% from its 2016 population of 20,484. With a land area of 22.96 km² (8.86 sq mi), it had a population density of 931.4/km² (2,412.2/sq mi) in 2021.[7]

Government and infrastructure

Joliette is the seat of the judicial district of Joliette.[6]

Joliette Institution for Women, a prison of the Correctional Service of Canada, is in this town.

Economy

The city's economy is mainly in the manufacturing and service sectors. The largest gravel manufacturer in the area, Graybec, is located in Joliette and exploits a huge quarry just outside the city.

In the center of the city is Galeries Joliette, which has nearly 100 retailers as well as a 5-storey office building.[8]

Local institutions

Post-secondary:

• Cégep régional de Lanaudière à Joliette [fr] - Collège Constituent de Joliette

Commission scolaire des Samares operates Francophone public schools;

• École secondaire Thérèse-Martin
• École secondaire Barthélemy-Joliette
• École Primaire Les Mélèzes
• École Primaire Saint-Pierre (Marie-Charlotte)

Anglophone schools are operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board:

• Joliette Elementary School in Saint-Charles-Borromée[9]
• Joliette High School[10]

Private schools:

• Académie Antoine-Manseau [fr] (francophone)

Diocese

• Diocese of Joliette
• St. Charles Borromeo Cathedral

Notable people

• A.J. Greer - ice hockey player
• Francine Racette - actress
• Charles Richard-Hamelin - concert pianist
• Dominique Ducharme - former head coach of the Montreal Canadiens
• Paul Tellier - businessman and public servant
• Victor Desautels - actor, pianist, and physicist[11]

See also

• List of cities in Quebec

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Joliette, Quebec.

• Ville de Joliette
• Diocèse de Joliette
• "Diocese of Joliette". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney.

На других языках

[de] Joliette

[ru] Жольет