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8 unusual facts about West Island


Al Phaneuf

In October 1971, Phaneuf founded a Christian-based Youth Ranch for high school students on Montreal's West Island.

Ed Janiszewski

As of 2013, he is the longest serving mayor on the West Island.

MafiaBoy

MafiaBoy was the Internet alias of Michael Demon Calce, a high school student from West Island, Quebec, who launched a series of highly publicized denial-of-service attacks in February 2000 against large commercial websites including Yahoo!, Fifa.com, Amazon.com, Dell, Inc., E*TRADE, eBay, and CNN.

North Shore Lions

The North Shore Lions football organization is currently a member of the QBFL (Quebec Bantam Football League) operating in the West Island of Montreal, Canada.

Pierre Curzi

Curzi was forced to apologize and retract a statement he made in October 2007 during a radio interview that appeared to suggest that a sovereign Quebec would have "more teeth" and could potentially remove the voting rights of Quebec's English-speaking community living on Montreal's West Island.

Robert Layton

In the 1980s, he joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and was elected to the Federal Parliament in the 1984 election from the Quebec riding of Lachine, covering suburban communities on the west end of the island of Montreal.

West Island

Of note is the presence of non-native, borderline hardiness trees, such as the Tulip Tree, which thrive in small section of Senneville near the Île aux Tourtes Bridge.

Some would argue the communities of Saint-Laurent, Lachine and LaSalle, in addition to the Western off-island communities, such as Vaudreuil-Dorion, Hudson and the four communities of Île Perrot should be included in which communities define the West Island, given the common threads of settlement and factors determining their development.


Henri Bourassa Boulevard

Spanning 29 kilometres in length, it links the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles in the east to Autoroute 13 in the West Island.

Macdonald Campus

It was established in 1905 as Macdonald College and opened in 1907 in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, in the West Island region of the Island of Montreal.


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