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Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is a former town is southwestern Quebec, Canada, at the western tip of the Island of Montreal; pop. 4,700 (Statistics Canada, 1996). On January 1, 2002 it became a district of the City of Montreal, part of the Borough of L'Île-Bizard/Sainte-Geneviève/Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue.

Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue is the oldest community on Montreal's West Island, having been founded as a parish in 1703. It is home to John Abbott College, and McGill University's MacDonald Campus. The later includes about two square kilometres of farmland which seperates the small town from the suburban sprawl of nieghbouring Baie-d'Urfé[?].



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