Montreal City Council

Information about Montreal City Council

The Montreal City Council is the governing body of Montreal, Quebec.

It consists of the Mayor of Montreal and 63 elected city councillors, including borough mayors. Each borough elects their representatives differently. Some are elected at large throughout the borough, some are elected from districts. Unlike most Canadian cities, the City of Montreal has political parties.

Mayor of Montreal

Borough Mayors

* Members of the executive committee; not on council.

Councillors by borough

Ahuntsic-Cartierville

Anjou

  • Luis Miranda, mayor
  • Andrée Henault

Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

  • Michael Appelbaum, mayor
  • Warren Allmand
  • Marvin Rotrand
  • Francine Senécal
  • Marcel Tremblay
  • Saulie Zajdel

L'Île-Bizard—Sainte-Geneviève

  • Richard Bélanger, mayor

Lachine

LaSalle

  • Manon Barbe, mayor
  • Richard Deschamps
  • Alvaro Farinacci

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

Le Sud-Ouest

  • Jacqueline Montpetit, mayor
  • Jean-Yves Cartier
  • Line Hamel

Mercier—Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

  • Lyn Thériault, mayor
  • Laurent Blanchard
  • Richer Dompierre
  • Gaëtan Primeau
  • Claire Saint-Arnaud

Montréal-Nord

  • Marcel Parent, mayor
  • Jean-Marc Gibeau
  • James V. Infantino

Outremont

  • Stéphane Harbour, mayor

Pierrefonds-Roxboro

  • Monique Worth, mayor
  • Christian G. Dubois
  • Bertrand A. Ward

Rivière-des-Prairies—Pointe-aux-Trembles

  • André Bélisle
  • Joe Magri
  • Nicolas Montmorency

Rosemont—La Petite–Patrie

  • André Lavallée, mayor
  • Carle Bernier-Genest
  • Carole Du Sault
  • Gilles Grondin
  • François Purcell

Saint-Laurent

  • Alan DeSousa, mayor
  • Patricia Bittar
  • Laval Demers

Saint-Léonard

Verdun

  • Claude Trudel, mayor
  • Ginette Marotte
  • Alain Tassé

Ville-Marie

Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension

  • Anie Samson, mayor
  • Mary Deros
  • Sylvain Lachance
  • Soraya Martinez
  • Frank Venneri

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Nickname: 5-1-4, MTL, Heavy MTL, Mount Real, Real City
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Gérald Tremblay (born September 20, 1942 in Ottawa) is a Canadian (Québécois) politician currently serving his second term as mayor of the City of Montreal (French: Ville de Montréal) and as president of the Metropolitan Community of Montreal (French:
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LaSalle is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city of LaSalle located on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada.
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Ahuntsic-Cartierville is a borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Geography

The borough is located in the northern part of Montreal along the banks of the Rivière des Prairies, and includes some islands in the river such as Île aux Chats, Île Perry, and Île de la
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Marie-Andrée Beaudoin is the current borough mayor of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has been a resident of the area since the early 1990s.
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Lachine was a city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is now a borough within the city of Montreal.

Geography

The borough is located in the southwest portion of the island of Montreal, at the inlet of the Lachine Canal, between the city of
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Claude Dauphin (born December 17, 1953 in Lachine, Quebec) is a lawyer and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He was elected mayor of the Montreal borough of Lachine.
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Saint-Laurent, formerly the City of Saint-Laurent, is one of the largest boroughs (arrondissements) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Population (2001): 77,391.

The borough's mayor is Alan DeSousa.
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Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Geography

The borough is located northeast of downtown, and was part of the City of Montreal prior to the 2002 municipal mergers.
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Outremont is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The neighbourhood is the traditional home of Montreal's wealthy Francophone community.
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Ville-Marie is the name of a borough (arrondissement) in the centre of the city of Montreal, Quebec.

Location

The borough comprises all of downtown Montreal, the Centre-Sud area, most of Mount Royal Park, Saint Helen's Island, and Île Notre-Dame.
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Cosmo Maciocia is a Canadian politician. He was a Member of the National Assembly of Quebec and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec. [1]

Background

He was born in Cantalupo, Italy on February 2, 1942 and arrived in Canada in 1964.
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Anjou is a community on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It was amalgamated into the city of Montreal on January 1, 2002. The community is now a borough of the city of Montreal.

Geography

The borough is located in the eastern end of the island.
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Le Sud-Ouest is a borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Geography

Located southwest of downtown Montreal (hence the name), the borough is bordered to the northwest by Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, to the north by Westmount, to the northeast by Ville-Marie, to
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Verdun is a borough (arrondissement) of the City of Montreal, situated along the St. Lawrence River. Population (2001): 60,564. It consists of the former city of Verdun, Quebec, which was merged with the city of Montreal on January 1, 2002; Verdun did not hold a
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Pierrefonds-Roxboro is a borough of the city of Montreal. It is composed of the former municipalities of Pierrefonds and Roxboro, spanning the northern part of the West Island.
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Saint Leonard (in English usually pronounced /'li ʌ nʌrd/) is a former city on the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was amalgamated into the city of Montreal in 2002 and became a borough of the new mega-city. Population (2001): 69,604.
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Frank Zampino is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the City of Montreal and the city's second-ranking official.[1]

Early life

In 1976, Zampino graduated from Laurier Macdonald High School,[2]
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Marie-Andrée Beaudoin is the current borough mayor of Ahuntsic-Cartierville, located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She has been a resident of the area since the early 1990s.
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Noushig Eloyan is a Canadian politician and a City Coucillor from Montreal.

Background

She has Armenian descent.

Member of the Bourque Administration

In 1994 she ran for a seat on the City Council under the Vision Montreal label in the district of Acadie.
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William Warren Allmand, PC, OC, QC, BA, BCL, (born September 19, 1932) is a former Canadian Liberal Party Member of Parliament and was a Cabinet member from 1972 to 1979.
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Claude Dauphin (born December 17, 1953 in Lachine, Quebec) is a lawyer and politician in the province of Quebec, Canada. He was elected mayor of the Montreal borough of Lachine.
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Richard Bergeron is a Canadian politician from Montreal. He is a City Councillor and a 2005 Mayoral candidate.

Background

He was born in 1955 in Alma, Quebec. He moved to Montreal in 1975 and studied Architecture at Université de Montréal.
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Frank Zampino is the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the City of Montreal and the city's second-ranking official.[1]

Early life

In 1976, Zampino graduated from Laurier Macdonald High School,[2]
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Savino "Sammy" Forcillo is a Canadian politician and a City Councillor in Montreal, Quebec.

Background

He has Italian ancestry and has a degree from the École nationale d'administration publique (ENAP).
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