Grenville

Grenville is a village municipality in Quebec (Canada). It is part of the Argenteuil Regional County Municipality (MRC) in the Laurentides administrative region.

The first settlers arrived there around 1810. The construction of the Carillon Canal between 1819 and 1834 gave the municipality a boost.

Enclaved in the municipality of Grenville-sur-la-Rouge, Grenville is located on the left bank of the Ottawa River at the source of Lake Dollard-des-Ormeaux, 100 km west of Montreal and 100 km east of Gatineau-Ottawa. It is bathed to the west by Grenville Bay and faces the Franco-Ontarian town of Hawkesbury on the other bank. A bridge has connected the two towns since 1931, when the Perley Bridge was inaugurated. This first bridge was replaced by a new one in 1998, named the Long-Sault Bridge like the rapids that once bubbled up here. At the time of its founding, Grenville had on its banks the head of the Long-Sault rapids, now gone, which marked its history.