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Area · City of Boisbriand, Basses-Laurentides

Boisbriand

A car factory turned into a full neighbourhood, an old road lined with stone houses, and the Rivière des Mille Îles at the end of the streets. Here's my top 10, neighbour version, not brochure version.

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Boisbriand marks the entrance to the Basses-Laurentides, just north of the Rivière des Mille Îles, in the Thérèse-De Blainville RCM. About 29,800 people live here. It's a suburban town in the classic sense, but with a history that few towns its size can tell: a seigneury granted in 1683, an auto assembly plant that supported the region for 37 years, then a whole neighbourhood built on its ruins.

I work with buyers coming from the island who discover that in Boisbriand you can have a yard, a garage, and the highway three minutes away. I also work with longtime owners selling the house where they raised their kids. In both cases, the conversation starts with the neighbourhood before it gets to the property.

That's why I put this top 10 together. Every point comes with a way to start a conversation. Use it.

Maxime Laforest, residential and commercial real estate broker · Équipe Loiselle, RE/MAX Dynamique

The area's top 10

What makes the heart of Boisbriand beat.

Ten reasons buyers cross the river, and why the ones who stay often stay for life.

01
The transformation

Le Faubourg, the factory turned neighbourhood

General Motors opened its plant here on October 12, 1965. It was the only auto assembly plant in Quebec, and it closed on August 29, 2002. Instead of leaving the land empty, the city turned it into Faubourg Boisbriand, whose first stores opened in 2007. Today you'll find big box stores like Costco, restaurants, an industrial sector, and more than a thousand housing units. The residential plan even earned a LEED-ND Gold certification.

Ask me about it: ask me what changes if you live in Le Faubourg instead of the older streets. They're two very different ways to live in the same town.
02 The Maison Abraham-Dubois, a stone house from the early 1800s in Boisbriand
Heritage

Chemin de la Grande-Côte and its stone houses

This road has linked the villages of Terrebonne and Saint-Eustache since the mid 18th century, and it's along this route that the seigneury was settled. A few remarkable houses remain: the Maison Abraham-Dubois, built around 1800 in roughly squared limestone, and the Maison Léon-Dion, built around 1816 in a Georgian style at 394 chemin de la Grande-Côte. The latter was designated a heritage building by the City in December 1999 and now houses a restaurant.

Ask me about it: ask me what's involved in buying a property that's designated, or next to a heritage site. There are rules worth knowing before you make an offer.
03
Nature

The Rivière des Mille Îles at the end of the street

The river runs along the town from southwest to northeast, and the Rivière aux Chiens crosses the northern part of the territory. On rue de Chavigny, the Centre d'interprétation de la nature protects a 42,500 square metre riverside woodland with more than a kilometre of trails, four observation lookouts, themed gardens, and a fishing dock, open from mid-May to the end of October. At Parc des Berges, on rue Hubert-Aquin, the Parc de la Rivière-des-Mille-Îles rents canoes, kayaks, and paddleboards to get a close look at the islands and marshes.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets give real access to the water and which ones sit in a flood zone. That's the first thing I check in this area.
04
Outdoors

Le Domaine Vert, 650 hectares to share

Parc du Domaine Vert is located in Mirabel, but it belongs to an intermunicipal board made up of Boisbriand, Blainville, Mirabel, and Sainte-Thérèse. In practice, Boisbriand residents get in free. There are about fifty kilometres of cross country ski trails, another twenty for mountain biking, snowshoeing and fatbiking in winter, and a pool and trails in summer. For an active family, that's a real factor when choosing between two neighbouring towns.

Ask me about it: ask me how outdoor access compares from one town to the next in the Basses-Laurentides. Free access for residents changes the math.
05 The Centre d'excellence Sports Rousseau, home arena of the Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand
Sports

The Centre d'excellence Sports Rousseau

Opened in September 2010 on boulevard de la Grande-Allée, in the northwest part of Le Faubourg, the arena has hosted the Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec since the 2011-2012 season. Besides the main rink, there's a second rink, two smaller surfaces for three on three, a gym, and synthetic turf fields. FC Boisbriand, founded in 1977, rounds out the picture with close to 1,500 players and its Défi Boisbriand tournament on Labour Day.

Ask me about it: ask me which neighbourhoods let kids walk or bike to the arena or the fields. For a lot of families, that's the deciding factor.
06
Access

Three highways that meet right here

Highway 15 runs through town from south to north, and Highway 640 cuts across it from east to west. Highway 13, the one coming up from Dorval and Laval, actually ends on the 640 right at Boisbriand. Add boulevard Curé-Labelle, the old route 117 once known as la Grande Ligne, and you've got a town where you can reach downtown Montreal, the airport, or the Laurentians without ever spending long looking for your way.

Ask me about it: ask me which areas get the highway access without the highway noise. One street can make a completely different property.
07
Transit

Public transit, the real picture

There's no train station within Boisbriand itself. The closest ones are in Sainte-Thérèse and Rosemère, on the exo Saint-Jérôme line, and bus routes 240 and 241 get you there on weekdays. Route 59 goes to the Montmorency metro station in Laval, and since November 2024 exo's on demand service covers the town on weekends and holidays. As for the REM, the Deux-Montagnes branch has been running since November 17, 2025, and the Sainte-Dorothée station in Laval is the one most people around here head for.

Ask me about it: ask me to run the real numbers on your daily commute before you buy. It's the most useful thing I do with my North Shore clients.
08 Residential street in Boisbriand in winter, houses and duplexes from the 1960s and 1970s
The neighbourhoods

Quiet streets and plenty of parks

The residential fabric was built in waves, from the 1950s to today, which gives you a mix of bungalows, cottages, duplexes, and newer projects. The town has more than thirty neighbourhood parks. Parc Régional has its woodland, boarded rinks, and a synthetic soccer field. Parc Derek-Aucoin, the former parc Charbonneau, offers free tennis courts, pickleball, and beach volleyball. Parc Pellerin has its semi-Olympic pool and parc René-Lévesque its BMX track.

Ask me about it: ask me what build era fits your budget and your appetite for renovations. Between a 1965 bungalow and a 2015 semi-detached, everything changes.
09 The Maison-Bélanger heritage site, in Boisbriand
History

From Sainte-Thérèse-Ouest to Boisbriand

In September 1683, Louis XIV granted Michel-Sidrac Dugué de Boisbriant a territory north of the Rivière des Mille Îles. His daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter then led the settlement effort, and the first colonists arrived in 1740. The municipality of Sainte-Thérèse-Ouest was born on January 1, 1946, became a city in 1970, and took the name Boisbriand on March 16, 1974, after a municipal debate that lasted five years. The Maison Bélanger and the other ancestral houses are what remains of that farming era.

Ask me about it: ask me why so many people still say Sainte-Thérèse-Ouest. Understanding where a town comes from helps you understand how it's laid out today.
10 Boisbriand city hall
Local life

The civic heart and the neighbours

City hall, the neighbourhood elementary schools, and École secondaire Jean-Jacques-Rousseau shape daily life, with Collège Boisbriand on the private side. In the western part of town is Kiryas Tosh, a Hasidic community founded in 1963 by Rabbi Meshulim Feish Lowy, with about 2,000 people at the 2021 census. And if you come across a rue d'Annemasse in Le Faubourg, it's named for the town in Haute-Savoie that Boisbriand signed a friendship pact with in October 2001.

Ask me about it: ask me for the school picture area by area. When you're buying with young kids, that's often the information people are missing.
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