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Montreal and surrounding islands with L'Île-Dorval shown in red.

Dorval Island as painted by Frances Anne Hopkins, 1866.
'L'Île-Dorval' is a municipality in southwestern
Quebec,
Canada, in
Lac Saint-Louis off of the
Island of Montreal.
A cottaging spot, it had only two permanent residents as of the 1996 census, making it the smallest municipality in Canada both in area and population. By the
2001 census the official population had dropped to zero, due most probably to
random rounding by
Statistics Canada, since there were obviously enough people there to hold an election in 2004. It is connected to the
Island of Montreal with a seasonal ferry service.
On
January 1,
2002, it merged with the city of
Montreal to become part of the borough of
Dorval–L'Île-Dorval. On
June 20,
2004, it voted to return to being an independent municipality, effective
January 1,
2006.
See also
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List of former boroughs
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Montreal Merger
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Municipal reorganization in Quebec
References
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Community Profile: L'Île-Dorval, Québec; Statistics Canada