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Area · City of Deux-Montagnes, Basses-Laurentides

Deux-Montagnes

The REM terminus since 2025, the lake on one side, the river on the other, and ten neighbourhoods that each keep their own name. Here's my top 10, the neighbour version, not the brochure version.

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Deux-Montagnes is a small, dense town: close to 17,900 people on 7.3 square kilometres, about thirty kilometres northwest of Montreal. It's bordered to the south by the Lake of Two Mountains and to the east by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and it's surrounded by Saint-Eustache and Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac. Since November 17, 2025, it's also the terminus of the REM's north branch, which changed the conversation with my buyer clients quite a bit faster than I expected.

This is a town that started with a mill and a train. The Grand-Moulin neighbourhood is named after an old water mill whose first building dates back to before 1790, and the rail line to the Mount Royal tunnel was electrified even before the municipality was founded, on August 18, 1921, under the name Saint-Eustache-sur-le-Lac. The name Deux-Montagnes came in 1963.

I put this top 10 together for a simple reason: when you buy or sell, you're not just shopping for a property, you're shopping for a neighbourhood life. Each point comes with an opening for 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 Deux-Montagnes beat.

Ten reasons buyers ride all the way to the end of the line, and why the ones already here don't feel like leaving.

01 The entrance to the REM's Grand-Moulin station, in a residential neighbourhood of Deux-Montagnes
Transit

Two REM stations in the same small town

Service started on November 17, 2025. The Deux-Montagnes station, on Boulevard Deux-Montagnes, serves as the terminus, with 739 park-and-ride spots, 248 bike racks and five bus bays where exo's Laurentides routes come in. A bit further off, the Grand-Moulin station is a neighbourhood station, the one you reach on foot. The train runs every five minutes at peak times and every fifteen minutes the rest of the day, and it takes about 35 minutes to reach Gare Centrale. For a town this size, having two doors onto the network is rare.

Ask me about it: ask me which of the two stations fits your routine. Walking to Grand-Moulin or parking at the terminus means different streets and a different kind of property.
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History and projects

Grand-Moulin, where the town got its start

The first residents settled in this area, to the east, along the Rivière des Mille Îles. The name comes from a water mill whose first version predates 1790, replaced by a second one in the early 1800s. This neighbourhood is also the one set to change the most: the town revised its special urban planning program around the Grand-Moulin station after a citizen participation process, targeting a density of at least 100 dwellings per hectare, well above the minimum of 60 set out in the metropolitan plan. In other words, the town's oldest neighbourhood is the one about to transform the fastest.

Ask me about it: ask me what the densification around Grand-Moulin could mean for a property owner in the area, and where the targeted lots are.
03 Downtown Deux-Montagnes on Chemin d'Oka, route 344, with the bell tower of Église Sainte-Famille
The neighbourhoods

Ten neighbourhoods, each with its own name

The town is divided into ten neighbourhoods, and that's how locals place themselves when they introduce themselves. Grand-Moulin to the east along the river, Du Lac to the south along the water, De la Gare to the west, De l'Olympia in the centre, Du Coteau to the north, Du Golf to the northeast. Each area has its own construction era, house sizes and feel, and downtown sits on Chemin d'Oka, route 344, with the bell tower of Église Sainte-Famille as a landmark.

Ask me about it: ask me which neighbourhood fits your project. That's the first question to settle before you even start visiting.
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Waterfront

The lake on one side, the river on the other

Five waterfront parks give you views over the water, and two boat launches are reserved for residents with a parking permit. Parc du Centenaire, built for the town's 100th anniversary on Chemin d'Oka, adds a dock for kayaking, canoeing and paddleboarding, with non-motorized boat rentals run by Éco-Nature, the organization behind the Parc de la Rivière-des-Mille-Îles. In 2026, rentals are free for residents who show their card. And we need to talk plainly about spring 2017: lake water pooled in a low-lying area at the heart of town, nearly a kilometre from the shore, in a spot that had never flooded before. The town built a vegetated dike, and in May 2025 it opened a pumping station and retention basin at Parc Central. The flood zone maps were also redone.

Ask me about it: ask me to check an address against the flood zone maps before you submit an offer. It affects insurance, financing and resale.
05 The La Vagabonde bike path crosses a wooded area in Deux-Montagnes, next to the REM station
Outdoors

La Vagabonde and a woodland protected by the town

The regional La Vagabonde bike path runs right next to the Deux-Montagnes station, follows the river and the lakeshore, and connects Saint-Eustache, Deux-Montagnes, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Oka and Saint-Placide. Just steps away is the Boisé-Roger-Lemoine nature reserve, 8.14 hectares of forest and cattail marsh that became, in 2013, the first nature reserve protected by a municipality in Quebec. Some of the sugar maples there are estimated at around 225 years old, which isn't something you find in every suburban forest. With about twenty parks on such a small piece of land, there's always some greenery less than ten minutes on foot.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets give direct access to the path or the woodland trails. Those addresses move fast.
06 The restored CN 6710 electric locomotive, on display at Parc Bélair near the Rivière des Mille Îles in Deux-Montagnes
Rail heritage

The 6710, memory of a train town

At Parc Bélair, along the Rivière des Mille Îles, a black and red electric locomotive sits on display on a short stretch of rail. The CN 6710 was built in 1917 by General Electric for the Canadian Northern before passing to Canadian National in 1919, and it pulled commuter trains through the Mount Royal tunnel for decades. It sat for years in front of the old station before being moved and later restored. The commuter train itself closed on December 31, 2020, to make way for REM construction. Around here, getting around on electricity is nothing new from 2025.

Ask me about it: ask me what having a rail link to downtown for more than a century actually does for a neighbourhood's value.
07 The Olympia arena in Deux-Montagnes, on 20e Avenue
Sports and family

The Olympia, Parc Central and an Olympic champion

The Olympia arena, on 20e Avenue near Highway 640, is the town's sports hub. Parc Olympia adds water play features, a playground, a sledding hill, tennis courts, baseball and a skate park, and a multisport surface built in summer 2025 stretches the outdoor skating season there. Parc Central rounds things out with the pool, soccer, baseball and outdoor rinks. And moguls skier Mikaël Kingsbury, who grew up here and won gold in dual moguls at the February 2026 Games, now has a park named after him in his hometown.

Ask me about it: ask me which areas let kids walk to the arena or the pool. In a town of 7 square kilometres, that adds up fast.
08 The sports fields and running track at Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes
Schools

Five elementary schools, two high schools, two languages

Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes, founded in 1966, has just over 2,000 students, making it one of the largest high schools in Quebec. It's known for its sports teams, football in particular, and it's part of the International Baccalaureate network. Nearby, Lake of Two Mountains High School, part of the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, serves the English-speaking community in a building constructed in 1983. That's not a small detail: about 76% of residents have French as their only mother tongue and close to 16% have English, which makes for a town that's bilingual day to day. Add five elementary schools and a library with more than 90,000 items.

Ask me about it: ask me how the choice of school shapes the choice of neighbourhood. Catchment areas don't always follow the logic you'd expect.
09 The Petite École Jaune in Deux-Montagnes, a former 1937 school now a cultural venue
Heritage

The Petite École Jaune and the houses that saw it all

Built in 1937, the Petite École Jaune reflects the architecture of early 20th-century rural schools and now serves as a cultural and exhibition venue. The town also protects several heritage sites: the stone Berthelet house, built between 1820 and 1850, the Dumoulin house from the 1830s, the Bélair house with its bourgeois look from the 1910s, the Baudouin house and the heritage site of the town hall. Eight interpretive panels around town tell these stories, and the 2021 centennial was marked with a time capsule that won't be opened until the 200th anniversary.

Ask me about it: ask me what it means to buy a property that's designated as heritage, or next to one. The permits and the work don't get handled the same way as elsewhere.
10 20e Avenue in Deux-Montagnes, a commercial strip near Highway 640
Services and access

20e Avenue, the 640 and the rest of the world

20e Avenue is the service strip, and Promenades Deux-Montagnes, clearly visible from Highway 640, brings together the grocery store, the SAQ, the pharmacy and everyday shops. Chemin d'Oka, route 344, crosses the town from east to west: Saint-Eustache on one side, Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac and then Oka on the other. By car, the 640 runs east to meet highways 13 and 15 heading down to Laval and Montreal, and to the west it ends near Oka. On public transit, the station sits in fare zone C, and the Société de transport de Laval even keeps backup routes into the area for when the REM is out of service.

Ask me about it: ask me to compare the real door to door time, by car and by REM, from the address you have in mind. The answer often surprises people.
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