Saint-Laurent, Quebec
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Saint-Laurent is a former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It consists of the Borough of Saint-Laurent.
The borough's mayor is Alan Desousa.
Saint-Laurent has a noted art museum. This art museum is located on the campus of Cégep de Saint-Laurent, along with a bowling alley, and the indoor college hockey rink.
It's the hometown of NHL's Hall of Famer, Raymond Bourque
Saint-Laurent has three fire stations and two police stations, one municipal court building, one library, the former City Hall, and two indoor hockey arenas (the municipal Raymond Bourque Arena named after the legendary NHL Hall of Famer Raymond Bourque and the commercial Bonaventure's Arena whose rinks can be hired out, among other things, for private league play.)
Saint-Laurent contains two CEGEPs, one English (Vanier College) and one French (Cégep de Saint-Laurent) showing the history of Saint-Laurent as a college town. With one French and one English college, it also shows the ethnic diversity of the borough, with sizable French, Jewish, Armenian, South-Asian, East-Asian, Arab, Italian, Greek, and English communities.
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Saint-Laurent was founded as the Parish of Saint-Laurent.
- Norgate shopping centre, the earliest strip mall in Canada was built in Saint-Laurent in 1949, and is still operational.
