Saint-Laurent (French pronunciation: [sɛ̃ lɔʁɑ̃] ⓘ) is a borough of the city of Montreal, Canada, located in the northern part of the island.

On August 10, 1735, a new church was erected next to the intersection of Montée Saint-Laurent (future Sainte-Croix boulevard) and Chemin de la Côte-Vertu.

Indeed, it was along Montée Saint-Laurent, the axis linking Ville-Marie to the North Shore, that the first businesses developed, notably inns and blacksmiths to serve travellers.

After the cession of New France to Great Britain, Saint-Laurent experienced no population exodus and Scottish families joined the French Canadians.

On May 15 of the same year, Louis-Joseph Papineau made one of the most important speeches of his career there in front of his supporters gathered on the square.

The prestigious reputation of this bilingual school, which took the name of Collège de Saint-Laurent, would make that of the village.

During the 20th century, the parish was successively amputated of several territories, which would become the Town of Mount-Royal, Cartierville, as well as part of Dorval.

[3] In 1896, the Montreal Park and Island Railway Company tramway reached Saint-Laurent along the Grande-Allée-de-Florence (current Decarie Boulevard).

To attract Montreal families to the countryside, the establishment of certain polluting industries (slaughterhouses, distilleries, gasworks) was prohibited and the municipal territory was divided into deep plots bordered by wide tree-lined streets.

A town hall, which also served as a fire station, was built in 1912 on the site of the current Vieux-Saint-Laurent library.

The aeronautical industry settled there in 1935 with the small factory of Noorduyn Aviation, joined in 1942 by that of Vickers which would become Canadair.

Tens of thousands of workers took part in the war effort and a first residential suburb, the Norvick district (contraction of Noorduyn-vickers), was built on the model of garden cities to house some of them nearby.

Alongside the factories, new suburbs structured for cars were developing to the north and west of the historic centre.

The reconstruction, in 1957, of the Town Hall on new land to the west testifies to the displacement of the center of gravity of the city.

It is managed by the City of Montreal and brings together more than a hundred companies in the aeronautics, life sciences, pharmaceuticals and technology sectors.

The same year, the Bombardier group took advantage of the closure of Cartierville airport, which it owned, to propose its conversion into a residential area.

Construction of the Bois-Franc district officially began on August 6, 1993, but sales being slower than expected, a golf course was built on unsold land in June 2002.

Saint-Laurent is one of Montreal's outer boroughs located in the north central part of the island.

It's bordered by Pierrefonds-Roxboro to the west, Ahuntsic-Cartierville to the north and east, and Côte-des-Neiges and the Town of Mount-Royal to the south.

Three light metro stations from the Réseau express métropolitain, Bois-Franc, Du Ruisseau and Montpellier, are also located in Saint-Laurent.