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Pierrefonds is a city with an area of 24.90 km² and a population of 54,963 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Pierrefonds Pierrefonds is a district of the city of Montreal, Canada, located along the Rivière des Prairies. It is part of the borough of Pierrefonds—Senneville. The history of Pierrefonds goes back to the eighteenth century, and is intimately linked to that of Sainte-Geneviève, which was composed at the time of Pierrefonds, L’Île-Bizard, Sainte-Geneviève, Roxboro and Dollard-des-Ormeaux. In 1904, following several previous divisions, the Town of Sainte-Geneviève was split into two new villages: Sainte-Geneviève and Sainte-Geneviève de Pierrefonds. This was the first appearance of the name Pierrefonds. At the heart of the conflict leading to the separation was famous notary Joseph-Adolphe Chauret, who, in 1902, had a "seigniorial" residence built for himself reminiscent of the community of Pierrefonds in France’s Department of Oise. He named his thatched home "Château Pierrefonds", apparently providing the name for the future city. Curiously, in 1935, the two villages of Sainte-Geneviève and Sainte-Geneviève de Pierrefonds merged once again into a single village called Sainte-Geneviève. The name Pierrefonds disappeared, resurfacing on December 18, 1958, when the rest of the territory of the old parish became the City of Pierrefonds. Many years later, in the 1850s, the first railway line passing through Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue helped to transform Senneville into a summer refuge for influential bankers and lawyers and prosperous businessmen from Montréal. The Village of Senneville was finally formed in 1895.