Montreal East (in French: Montréal-Est) is an on-island suburb in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the island of Montreal. Montreal-Est has been home to many large oil refineries since 1915.

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Montreal East Montréal-Est
City
Coat of arms
Motto:  Peux ce que Veux
Location on the Island of Montreal
Montreal East Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 45.63°N 73.52°W / 45.63; -73.52[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Montreal
UA	Urban agglomeration of Montreal
Creation	June 4, 1910
Constituted	January 1, 2006
Government [2][3]
• Mayor	Anne St-Laurent
• Federal riding	La Pointe-de-l'Île
• Prov. riding	Pointe-aux-Trembles
Area [2][4]
• Total	13.96 km2 (5.39 sq mi)
• Land	12.15 km2 (4.69 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[4]
• Total	4,394
• Density	361.6/km2 (937/sq mi)
• Pop. (2016–21)	14.1%
• Dwellings	2,124
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	H1B
Area code(s)	514 and 438
Highways A-40	R-138
Website	ville.montreal-est.qc.ca

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The formation of Montréal-Est as a municipality was initiated in 1910 by businessman Joseph Versailles, who had bought 6 square kilometres (2.3 sq mi) of land there. The town was incorporated on 4 June 1910 under the name Montreal East, when it separated from Pointe-aux-Trembles and Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rivière-des-Prairies. Versailles was mayor of the town until his death in 1931.^[1][5]

On January 1, 2002, as part of the 2002–2006 municipal reorganization of Montreal, it was merged into the City of Montreal and became part of the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles–Montréal-Est. After a change of government and a 2004 referendum, it was the only community in the eastern half of the Island of Montreal that de-merged, and it was re-constituted as a city on January 1, 2006.

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Montréal-Est had a population of 4,394 living in 2,018 of its 2,124 total private dwellings, a change of 14.1% from its 2016 population of 3,850. With a land area of 12.15 km² (4.69 sq mi), it had a population density of 361.6/km² (936.7/sq mi) in 2021.^[6]

There are three refineries that make up the majority of the Montreal Oil Refining Centre:

• Shell Canada Montreal East Refinery : formerly produced 161,000 barrels per day (bpd) before conversion to a storage facility^[8]
• Petro-Canada Montreal Refinery : 160,000 bpd
• Gulf Canada/Kemtec/Coastal Canada Montreal East Refinery : 65,000 bpd

Total production: 386,000 bpd

Montréal-Est forms part of the federal electoral district of La Pointe-de-l'Île and has been represented by Mario Beaulieu of the Bloc Québécois since 2015. Provincially, Montréal-Est is part of the Pointe-aux-Trembles electoral district and is represented by Chantal Rouleau of the Coalition Avenir Québec since 2018.

List of former mayors:^[11]

• Joseph Versailles (1910–1931)
• Adélard Rivet (1931)
• Albert Berthiaume (1931–1933)
• J.-A. Napoléon Courtemanche (1933–1952)
• Joseph-Émile-Roland MacDuff (1952–1962)
• Édouard Rivet (1962–1982)
• Yvon Labrosse (1982–2002, 2006–2009)
• Robert Coutu (2009–2021)
• Anne St-Laurent (2021–present)

The Dufresne-Nincheri Museum, a historic building in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal, has the mission to preserve, study, and influence the history and heritage of Montréal-Est (East Montreal). It was originally named the Château Dufresne Museum.

Montréal-Est is served by Notre-Dame Street and Sherbrooke Street, which run east-west through large portions of the Island of Montreal.

Montréal-Est joined Westmount as the only Montreal island municipalities to refuse to adopt the name of Boulevard René-Lévesque for their portion of the major east-west street, Dorchester. To this day, the street is called Rue Dorchester in Montréal-Est.^[12] It also preserves a section of Rue de Montigny, which has otherwise been replaced by Boulevard de Maisonneuve apart from one block downtown. Rue Sainte-Catherine and Rue Ontario also reappear in Montréal-Est, far away from their main downtown sections.

North-south streets in the city include Avenue Georges-V and Avenue Marien.

The city is served by two school boards. The French schools are part of the Commission scolaire Pointe-de-l'Ile while the English schools are part of the English Montreal School Board.

Francophone schools:

• École primaire St-Octave^[13]

• Roméo Dallaire, Lieutenant-General (retired), Canadian senator, author
• Michel Plasse, professional hockey player (1948–2006)