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Verdun (; ) is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, situated along the St. Lawrence River. It consists of the former ''city'' of Verdun, which was merged with the city of Montreal on January 1, 2002. Verdun did not hold a demerger referendum on June 20, 2004. The settlement of Verdun was founded in 1671, making it one of Canada's oldest cities. In 1956, Nuns' Island (''île des Sœurs'') was amalgamated with Verdun, which is on the Island of Montreal. ==Location and description== The borough of Verdun is located in the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal and also includes Nuns' Island (île des Sœurs). The part on the Island of Montreal is bounded to the southwest by LaSalle, to the northwest by the borough of Le Sud-Ouest (Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul) and the Canal de l'Aqueduc, to the northeast by the Pointe-Saint-Charles (Le Sud-Ouest) and the Décarie Autoroute (Aut. 15), and to the southeast by the St. Lawrence River. Verdun proper and Nuns' Island are joined by the Pont de l'Île-des-Sœurs on Aut. 15, part of the Champlain Bridge complex that crosses Nuns' Island and links it to Brossard on the south shore of the St. Lawrence. The borough administration divides Verdun into three neighbourhoods: *Desmarchais-Crawford (also called West Verdun), which includes dense early 20th-century residential development, the sprawling Douglas Hospital campus, and the post-war suburban area of Crawford Park; *Wellington-De l'Église, the borough's commercial and institutional downtown surrounded with chiefly working-class blocks of two- and three-story "plexes" (duplexes, 3-, 4-, 5- and 6-plexes) with their characteristic winding staircases and balconies, and *Nuns' Island, forming the neighbourhood of L'Île-des-Sœurs, with its upscale developments. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Verdun, Quebec」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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