🇨🇦 Joliette is a city in south-west Quebec, Canada. It is approximately 50 km (31 mi) north-east of Montreal, on the L'Assomption River and is the seat of the Regional County Municipality of Joliette. It is considered to be a part of the North Shore of Greater Montreal. The city is home to the Joliette Art Museum, whose works of art include paintings, sculptures, paper artwork and a large collection of art from the French Middle Ages.
Joliette has 3 Francophone high schools and 1 Anglophone high school, as well as the Joliette campus of the Cégep régional de Lanaudière.
It was founded as L'Industrie by the businessman Barthélemy Joliette in 1823 and was incorporated as a city in 1863, when it changed its name to Joliette.
The city's economy is mainly in the manufacturing and service sectors. The largest gravel manufacturer in the area, Graybec, is located in Joliette and exploits a huge quarry just outside the city.
Joliette is the seat of the judicial district of Joliette.
Government and infrastructure Joliette is the seat of the judicial district of Joliette.
Joliette Institution for Women, a prison of the Correctional Service of Canada, is in this town.
Economy The city's economy is mainly in the manufacturing and service sectors. The largest gravel manufacturer in the area, Graybec, is located in Joliette and exploits a huge quarry just outside the city.
In the centre of the city is Galeries Joliette, which has nearly 100 retailers as well as a 5-storey office building.
Local institutions Post-secondary: • Cégep régional de Lanaudière à Joliette - Collège Constituent de Joliette
Commission scolaire des Samares operates Francophone public schools; • École secondaire Thérèse-Martin • École secondaire Barthélemy-Joliette • École Primaire Les Mélèzes • École Primaire Saint-Pierre (Marie-Charlotte)
Anglophone schools are operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board: • Joliette Elementary School in Saint-Charles-Borromée • Joliette High School
Private schools: • Académie Antoine-Manseau (francophone)
Diocese • Diocese of Joliette • St. Charles Borromeo Cathedral
Joliette has a population of over 49,439 people. Joliette also forms one of the centres of the wider Lanaudière District which has a population of over 494,796 people.
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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Joliette has links with:
🇫🇷 Brive-la-Gaillarde, France🇫🇷 Villefranche-sur-Saône 45.983
🇨🇦 Sainte-Julienne 45.967
🇨🇦 Fredericton 45.95
🇸🇮 Nova Gorica 45.95
🇫🇷 Saint-Jean-d'Angély 45.946
🇺🇸 Plattsburgh -73.45
🇨🇦 L'Assomption -73.417
🇵🇪 Andahuaylas -73.383
🇺🇸 Huntington -73.35
🇨🇦 Repentigny -73.467
🇺🇸 Massapequa -73.471
🇺🇸 Oyster Bay -73.515
🇨🇦 Saint-Constant -73.571
🇺🇸 North Hempstead -73.588
Locations Near: Joliette -73.45,46.0167
🇨🇦 L'Assomption -73.417,45.8 d: 24.2
🇨🇦 Sainte-Julienne -73.717,45.967 d: 21.3
🇨🇦 Repentigny -73.467,45.733 d: 31.5
🇨🇦 Terrebonne -73.633,45.692 d: 38.8
🇨🇦 Bois-des-Filion -73.75,45.667 d: 45.3
🇨🇦 Longueuil -73.494,45.542 d: 52.9
🇨🇦 McMasterville -73.233,45.55 d: 54.5
🇨🇦 Mount Royal -73.633,45.5 d: 59.2
Antipodal to: Joliette 106.55,-46.017
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🇦🇺 Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 18465.6
🇦🇺 Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 18322.9
🇦🇺 Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 18296.6
🇦🇺 City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 18282
🇦🇺 Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 18259.4
🇦🇺 Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 18258.6
🇦🇺 Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 18249.5