Piedmont, Quebec

Piedmont
Municipality
Rivière du Nord in Piedmont
Location within Les Pays-d'en-Haut RCM.
Piedmont Location in central Quebec.
Coordinates:
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Laurentides
RCM	Les Pays-d'en-Haut
Constituted	September 22, 1923
Government
• Mayor	Clément Cardin
• Federal riding	Laurentides—Labelle
• Prov. riding	Bertrand
Area
• Total	24.70 km2 (9.54 sq mi)
• Land	24.37 km2 (9.41 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	2,721
• Density	111.7/km2 (289/sq mi)
• Pop (2006–11)	14.0%
Time zone	EST (UTC−5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC−4)
Postal code(s)	J0R 1K0
Area code(s)	450 and 579
Website	www.municipalite. piedmont.qc.ca

Piedmont is a small municipality within the Les Pays-d'en-Haut Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada, in the Laurentian Mountains of the administrative region of Laurentides. It is located along the North River and Autoroute 15 and Route 117, north of Montreal.

Police services are provided by the Régie intermunicipale de police de la Rivière-du-Nord, which also serves Prévost and some other nearby communities in the Laurentians.

Demographics

Population trend:

• Population in 2011: 2721 (2006 to 2011 population change: 14.0%)
• Population in 2006: 2386
  • 2001 to 2006 population change: 12.4%
• Population in 2001: 2122
• Population in 1996: 1862
• Population in 1991: 1462

Private dwellings occupied by usual residents: 1397 (total dwellings: 1996)

Mother tongue:

• English as first language: 8%
• French as first language: 90.5%
• English and French as first language: 0.5%
• Other as first language: 1%

See also

• List of municipalities in Quebec

External links

• Site officiel Piedmont
• Tourisme Pays-d'en-Haut
• Piedmont at Commission de toponymie du Québec
• Statistics Canada