Ville Jacques-Cartier

Ville Jacques-Cartier (French pronunciation: [vil ʒak kaʁtje]) was a city located on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Now a defunct municipality, its former territory makes up about a quarter of the current city of Longueuil and 80% of Le Vieux-Longueuil borough.

In 1948, a distant section of Jacques-Cartier (with no boundaries to the rest of the town) went on to form an independent municipality under the name of Préville.

Today, the western part of what used to be Jacques-Cartier is primarily low-income, highly populated, retail-oriented and completely built-up.

The Fatima neighbourhood (which borders the city of Boucherville) is similar to the western part, with many houses and apartment buildings dating from Jacques-Cartier.

During its 22 years of existence, Jacques-Cartier gave birth to some of the most well-known establishments of Le Vieux-Longueuil borough; notably Collège Édouard-Montpetit in 1967, a secondary school named after Gérard Filion in 1963, and the current location of Pratt & Whitney Canada in 1951.