Kirkland, Quebec
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Kirkland is a municipality on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The population in 2001 was 20,434. It is named after Dr. Charles-Aime Kirkland, a Quebec provincial politician.
Originally incorporated as a municipality in 1961, it was merged with the City of Montreal in 2002, at the insistence of the provincial government, which was at the time administered by the Parti Québécois. Following the election of the Quebec Liberal Party, it was given the opportunity to hold a demerger referendum, and voted to be re-established as a separate city, which became effective on January 1, 2006.
The present mayor is John W. Meaney, who has been a member of the Kirkland City Council since the mid-1970s. Council members include Joe Sanalitro, Buck MacDonald, Paul Dufort, Dominic Zito, Michel Gibson, Andre Allard, John Morson and Brian Swinburne.
Kirkland is primarily a residential community, with a commercial core, and an industrial park straddling the Trans-Canada Highway (Autoroute 40). The city is comprised of mainly single-family residences, with some multi-unit facilities (apartments, town houses, and condos) available.
It is a full-service community, with a public works department, recreation department, engineering department, accounting, communications, human resources and administrative services operating for the welfare of its citizens.
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