Vaudreuil-Dorion

History

On 23 November 1702, governor of New France Louis-Hector de Callière gave a seigneury to Philippe de Vaudreuil, who was governor of Montreal at the time. Rigaud de Vaudreuil later became governor of New France. In 1725, the region had only 38 inhabitants. Around 1742, people began to be interested in the region and Vaudreuil's population rose. 381 people lived in Vaudreuil in 1765. With the creation of the Grand Trunk Railway, people began to live in Dorion, which was called Vaudreuil Station. Dorion became a village in 1891. Dorion was bisected by Autoroute 20 which links Downtown Montreal and Toronto via Highway 401 in Ontario. The Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway links between Toronto and Montreal are located in Dorion. Housing developments began in the 1950s and continued well into the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, housing began sprouting north and east of Dorion. Vaudreuil and Dorion merged in 1994, becoming the City of Vaudreuil-Dorion.

Geography

Vaudreuil-Dorion is located on the south shores of the Lake of Two Mountains at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa Rivers, just off the western edge of Île Perrot. The city consists of two non-contiguous parts: its eastern part is the larger main area along Lake of Two Mountains where the population centres of Vaudreuil and Dorion are located; the western portion is a smaller rural area that borders Rigaud, and is separated from the eastern portion by Saint-Lazare and Hudson.

Most-observed species

• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  47,042
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  41,769
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  39,648
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  37,848
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  33,930
• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  32,875
• Song Sparrow

  Melospiza melodia (A.Wilson, 1810) · Aves
  32,870
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  32,200

Most recent

• M 2.5 — 2026-04-21
  23 km NE of Saint-André-Avellin, Canada
• M 2.7 — 2026-01-20
  26 km N of L'Orignal, Canada
• M 2.7 — 2025-10-14
  4 km NNW of Chazy, New York
• M 2.5 — 2025-01-01
  6 km SSE of Fort Covington Hamlet, New York
• M 2.6 — 2024-10-02
  7 km ENE of Chertsey, Canada
• M 2.8 — 2024-07-29
  11 km SSW of Sainte-Martine, Canada