Brossard

Brossard is a municipality inside the Montérégie location of Quebec, Canada and is part of the Greater Montreal place. According to the 2016 census, Brossard's population become 85,721. It shares powers with the city agglomeration of Longueuil and became a borough of the municipality of Longueuil from 2002 to 2006. The town of Brossard was based on February 14, 1958 and was earlier than part of La Prairie-de-los angeles-Madeleine Parish.

Its first mayor turned into Georges-Henri Brossard. At the very starting, there were three,four hundred inhabitants. The city has a few homes dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, specially along Chemin des Prairies. Maison Senecal and Maison Deschamps. On August eight, 1964 a part of land from Greenfield Park changed into introduced to Brossard. Furthermore, Notre-Dame-du-Sacre-Coeur changed into annexed to Brossard on March 25, 1978 becoming the "A" segment to shape the present day town.

In the Nineteen Seventies, an strive became made by means of Rene Desourdy to construct a cemetery in Brossard. The try failed because of the water table being too high in maximum of the metropolis, and as of 2014 Brossard has no cemetery. On January 1, 2006, Brossard become reconstituted as a town and Jean-Marc Pelletier became elected as the brand new mayor. However, Brossard still remains part of the city agglomeration of Longueuil and for this reason, Brossard sits at the agglomeration council which determines certain powers of reconstituted towns.