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Nuns' Island (officially Île des Sœurs) is an island that forms a part of the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is part of the borough of Verdun. The Champlain Bridge connects Nuns' Island with the south shore of Quebec, as well as Montreal proper via Autoroute 15. The much smaller Clément Bridge connects the island with the Autoroute Bonaventure. Although the island is just miles from downtown Montreal, it is very secluded from the city and remains free of the heavy traffic and some noise of the city. The island is primarily composed of residential homes with few very large businesses with the exception of Kodak offices. The island is noted for its parks and scenery including East Vancouver Park which overlooks the Saint Lawrence River. There is only one school on the island, the grade school École Île des Sœurs. Originally called Île Saint-Paul in honour of the founder of Montreal, Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve, the name of Île des Sœurs or Nuns' Island appears starting from the 19th century and was exclusively used from the 1950s on. The name commemorates the nuns of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame, which had acquired part of the island in 1706 and kept it for over two hundred years. The island was formerly a municipality, L'Île-Saint-Paul, founded in 1899; it merged with Verdun in 1956.
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