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L'Île-Perrot, Quebec, incorporated as a town in 1955, population 11,638 (2021 census), 10,756 (2016 census). Connected by bridge to Île de Montréal since 1925, L'Île-Perrot is a residential suburb of Montreal, which is about 40 km to the east.
History of L’Île-Perrot
First set up as the parish municipality of Sainte-Jeanne-Chantal-de-l'Isle-Perrot in 1855, the name was changed to L'Île-Perrot in 1946. The name Perrot refers to François-Marie Perrot (1644–91), a captain in the Picardie Regiment and a governor of Montreal (1670) to whom was granted the island seigneury in 1672.
L'Île-Perrot is one of four municipal entities to be found on Île Perrot, the island separating Lac des Deux-Montagnes and the Ottawa River from the St. Lawrence River proper. The three other municipalities are Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Pincourt and Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot.
