Baie-D’Urfé

Baie-D'Urfé is a city in the Greater Montreal area of ​​Quebec, in the administrative region of the same name, Canada.

Baie-D'Urfé was named in honour of François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé. He was the first pastor of the parish of Saint-Louis-du-Bout-de-l'Île, a small community of settlers, soldiers, traders, and Indigenous people. He had been sent as a missionary by the Society of the Priests of Saint-Sulpice, then seigneurs of Montreal.

The village was founded in 1685.

In 2002, the city, along with several other independent municipalities on the Island of Montreal, was amalgamated into the greater Montreal area. Baie-D'Urfé was then united with its neighbour, Beaconsfield, to form the borough of Beaconsfield–Baie-D'Urfé. This merger, mandated by a bill introduced by the then-governing Parti Québécois, was challenged and overturned by a referendum in May 2004, which allowed the city to be reconstituted on January 1, 2006.

The city is essentially a suburban residential area stretching from Highway 40 in the north to the shores of Lake Saint-Louis in the south. The municipality has retained a rural character, accentuated by the lack of sidewalks and limited commercial activity.