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Chomedey is a district in the southwest of the city of Laval and was a separate municipality until the municipal mergers in 1965.

On April 1, 1961, the towns of Renaud, Quebec [fr] and L'Abord à Plouffe [fr] and the city of Saint Martin were merged, giving birth to the city of Chomedey. Chomedey's city hall became the city hall for all of Laval. The merger project was first launched by the administration of the city of L'Abord à Plouffe. On August 10, 1960, it passed a resolution expressing its desire to merge the three municipalities and the city of Laval des Rapides, under the name "Cité de Laval". Renaud (Laval)

Eight days later, Laval des Rapides, withdrew from the merger project. Hesitation was also felt the city of Renaud, where a referendum was held on the issue. On January 16, 1961 The referendum was won by the "fusionist", and the birth of the new city was celebrated by civic festivities, held from October 8 to 15, 1961. From then and onward, Chomedey stood out as a modern city, whose residential and industrial development excelled. The growth of Chomedey on the industrial front was rapid: the city had welcomed 1 new industry per month for 2 consecutive years, between 1962 and 1964. In short, Chomedey quickly became a city in its own right. This amalgamated municipality was already expanding, shortly after its creation. In 1963, the new city studied the possibility of annexing her two neighbours, the towns of Sainte Dorothée and Fabreville. In 1964, the city inaugurated the new city hall. The building, designed according to the plans of the architects Affleck, Desbarats, Dimakopoulos, Lebensold and Sise, was to be part of an architectural ensemble that would constitute the Civic Center of Chomedey to house various services, including a library, a theater and an art center. The planned complex was not realized until the creation of the City of Laval.

Chomedey is bordered on the south by the Rivière des Prairies, on the east by Laval des Rapides, Duvernay and Vimont, on the north by Sainte Rose, on the north west by Fabreville and on the west by Sainte Dorothée. Chomedey is bordered by the Prairies River to the South, approximately by Autoroute 13 to the West, Autoroute 440 to the North, Des Laurentides Boulevard and Autoroute 15 to the East.

Since the 1960s, Chomedey is the most multicultural neighbourhood of Laval. It includes a large number of Jews, Christians, Muslims, Portuguese, Lebanese, Algerians, Moroccans, Syrians, Egyptians, Haitians, Italians, Armenians and the largest Greek community of Quebec. Mirroring the geographic linguistic divisions in Montreal, there are more English speakers in the west of Ile Jesus than in the east, and Chomedey has been home to the city's Anglophone and allophone minorities, notably a large community of Greeks. +Home Language (2006) Language Population Pct (%) French 45,085 50.04% English 17,510 19.43% Both English and French 840 0.93% English and a non Official language 1,460 1.62% French and a non Official language 2,070 2.29% English, French and a non Official language 615 0.68% Other languages 22,500 24.97%

The main thoroughfares are Curé Labelle Blvd, Chomedey Blvd, Saint Martin Blvd, Souvenir Rd, Notre Dame Blvd, Samson Blvd, 100th Ave, Daniel Johnson Blvd, Le Carrefour Blvd, Le Corbusier Blvd, Armand Frappier Blvd, Cartier Blvd, Lévesque Blvd, Promenade Des Îles, Cléroux Blvd, Jean Béraud Ave, Pierre Péladeau Ave, Bois de Boulogne Ave, Avenir Blvd, Industriel Blvd, McNamara St, Terry Fox Ave, Louis Payette Ave and Perron Blvd. Because of the rapid densification of this neighborhood and the development of the last fields and forested areas, there are more and more cars on the road. Since 2000, it is not uncommon to be in a traffic jam on many of main thoroughfares. Curé Labelle Blvd, Chomedey Blvd, Saint Martin Blvd, Notre Dame Blvd and Le Corbusier Blvd are often subject to traffic jams, but the creation of reserved bus lanes, an expanded bike path network as well as the extension of the Metro into Laval are all helping Chomedians to favor more sustainable transit alternatives. Traffic is a common problem, with many residents travelling to Montreal combined with Laurentians Montreal commuter and cottage traffic.

The Cosmodome located on the laurentian autoroute is the only museum in Canada dedicated solely to the space sciences and houses one of two lunar rocks on display in Canada. The Armand Frappier Museum located on Blvd. des Prairies is a biotechnology museum named after Dr. Armand Frappier who was instrumental in the fight against tuberculosis in Canada

Église and Park Saint Maxime, between 77e and 80e Avenue. Saint Maxime parish, formed from Saint Martin parish, was established in 1928. Prior to the church's construction in 1958, religious services were celebrated in the first École Saint Maxime, located at 3781, boulevard Lévesque. The Lachapelle bridge, located on Blvd. Labelle connecting Montreal and Laval. The present day metal Lachapelle bridge dates from 1890 and was doubled in size in 1977 after undergoing extensive modifications in 1940. The first bridge that linked the banks of Montréal and île Jésus was built of wood around 1848 and replaced the ferry that brought travellers from Cartierville to L'Abord à Plouffe. It was called the Cartierville bridge for a long time. The Saint Martin parish church Église Saint Martin located on St. Martin, near Blvd. Labelle, was built in 1782, and was the first church on île Jésus located at a crossroads inland. The second church, erected in 1874, just southeast of the first one, designed by the architects Bourgeau and Leprohon, was destroyed in 1942 by lightning. It was replaced in 1949 by the existing church, built facing boulevard Saint Martin, over 120 m away.