Salaberry-de-Valleyfield

Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, commonly known as Valleyfield [valefiɫd] ​​and nicknamed the "capital of Suroît" or the "Venice of Quebec," is a Quebec city located in the Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality in the Montérégie region. In 2020, it had a population of over 42,964, making it the 29th most populous city in Quebec and the 118th most populous city in Canada.

Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is the center of Suroît. It is the central city of the Beauharnois-Salaberry Regional County Municipality (RCM) in the southwest of the Montérégie administrative region. It is located 25 km southwest of the island of Montreal, 20 km from the border with Ontario, and 37 km from the border with the United States. The center of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is 60 km from downtown Montreal and 105 km west of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.

Its territory extends mainly over Salaberry Island and Grande Île, surrounded by the St. Lawrence River (Lake Saint-François), the Beauharnois Canal, and separated by the Saint-Charles River. The city occupies almost entirely Salaberry Island, with the exception of a narrow strip to the south, which is part of Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague, and the Melocheville sector, which is part of Beauharnois. The territory borders the Cedar Rapids to the east, in the Saint-Timothée sector as far as Melocheville. The bordering municipalities are Beauharnois to the east, Saint-Étienne-de-Beauharnois to the southeast, Saint-Louis-de-Gonzague to the south, and Saint-Stanislas-de-Kostka to the southwest. On the opposite shore of the St. Lawrence River are the municipalities of Coteau-du-Lac, Les Cèdres, and Pointe-des-Cascades in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges RCM. The municipality's total area is 126.99 km², of which 107.21 km² is land.

Salaberry-de-Valleyfield is one of Montreal's satellite cities and one of the former industrial centers developed since the 19th century, some 50 km from the metropolis and still autonomous, not integrated into the metropolitan area, like Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Hyacinthe, Sorel-Tracy, Joliette, and Lachute. These cities are still census agglomerations, as is Salaberry-de-Valleyfield. Saint-Jérôme is historically a satellite city of Montreal but is now part of the Montreal census metropolitan area, reflecting greater economic integration. The territory of the Salaberry-de-Valleyfield census agglomeration corresponds to that of the city of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield since the merger of the former municipalities of Saint-Timothée and Grande-Île.