Joliette

Joliette is a regional county municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Joliette. The municipality has a land area of 418.12 km2 and its 2016 census population of 66,550 inhabitants.

Joliette High School (JHS, French: École secondaire Joliette) is a public anglophone secondary school in Joliette, Quebec. Operated by the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, it is the sole anglophone high school in Lanaudière. As of 2017 it has about 265 students.

Joliette railway station is a Heritage Railway Station located at 380 Champlain Street in Joliette, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by Via Rail on two routes running from Montreal, Quebec.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliette (Latin: Dioecesis Ioliettensis) (erected 27 January 1904) is a suffragan in Joliette of the Archdiocese of Montréal.

Saint-Pierre is a village municipality in Joliette Regional County Municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada.

The St. Charles Borromeo Cathedral (French: Cathédrale Saint-Charles-Borromée de Joliette) is the name given to a religious building belonging to the Catholic Church and is located in Joliette, a town in the administrative region of Lanaudière in the southern part of the province of Quebec (Eastern Canada).The headquarters of the diocese of Joliette was built between 1887 and 1892 according to plans by the architects Maurice Perrault and Albert Mesnard. It was declared as a protected building (immeuble patrimonial) by the city of Joliette in 1999.

Saint-Paul is a municipality in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality.

Saint-Charles-Borromée, Quebec (2021 Population 15,285) is a city in southwest-central Quebec, Canada, on the l'Assomption River. In Joliette Regional County Municipality, Saint-Charles-Borromée has the Maison Antoine-Lacombe, a heritage home that hosts many exhibits throughout the year. The town is also home to the Centre Saint-Jean-Bosco, which annually hosts the Mémoires et Racines Festival of folk music from various countries and Quebec. The town takes its name from its original Roman Catholic parish, Saint-Charles-Borromée, which was canonically established in 1683. The parish, in turn, is named after the French form of the name of an Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Charles Borromeo (1538–1584). He was the archbishop of Milan, founded a Roman Catholic order, the Oblates, and became a canonised saint in the Roman Catholic calendar.

Notre-Dame-des-Prairies is a town in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada, part of the Joliette Regional County Municipality. It is a suburb of Joliette, located along the eastern shores of the L'Assomption River.

Joliette Institution for Women (French: Établissement Joliette pour femmes) is a prison for women in Joliette, Quebec, northeast of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) and has a capacity of 132 prisoners.Built in 1997, it originally had a capacity for 80 prisoners; it is one of several prisons that replaced the Kingston Prison for Women.

Route 131 is a Quebec highway running from Lavaltrie (junction of Route 138) to Saint-Michel-des-Saints in Lanaudière. This route, combined with Autoroute 31, provides the key route to Joliette, and then continues northward through Saint-Félix-de-Valois, Saint-Jean-de-Matha and Saint-Zénon for a distance of almost 140 km.

Joliette is a provincial electoral district in the Lanaudière region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the cities of Joliette and Saint-Charles-Borromée. It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its final election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 election and its successor electoral district was Joliette-Montcalm. However, Joliette-Montcalm disappeared in the 1981 election and Joliette was recreated from parts of Joliette-Montcalm and Berthier electoral districts. In the change from the 2001 to the 2011 electoral map, it lost Sainte-Marcelline-de-Kildare to Berthier electoral district but gained Sainte-Mélanie from that same electoral district. In the change from the 2011 to the 2017 electoral map, the riding will lose Saint-Jacques, Saint-Liguori and Sainte-Marie-Salomé to the riding of Rousseau.