A park of more than 100 hectares, quiet crescents and the whole world as neighbours. My top 7, the neighbour's version, not the brochure version.
Dollard-des-Ormeaux, DDO to everyone around here, is the most populous suburb on the island of Montreal, an independent city again since 2006 within the agglomeration. Quiet residential streets, lots where kids have room to run, a huge park right in the centre: the kind of place where families settle in and stay.
I put this top 7 together for a simple reason: when you buy or sell, you are not just shopping for a property, you are shopping for a neighbourhood life. Each point comes with a conversation starter, feel free to use it.
— Maxime Laforest, real estate broker · Équipe Loiselle, RE/MAX Dynamique
Seven reasons buyers fall for this area, and why the ones who live here never leave.
More than 100 hectares of nature right in the heart of the city: an artificial lake with its little islands, the Bear Trail circling around it, a mature maple grove and two hills with views all the way to Mount Royal. Picnics in summer, sledding in winter.
Town hall, library, Arts Centre, three ice rinks and an aquatic centre with a 50-metre pool: the Civic Centre on Salaberry Boulevard concentrates municipal, cultural and sports life in one place. For a family, that means hockey, swimming and exhibits in the same parking lot.
No station on the city's own territory, but two REM branches frame it: Sunnybrooke and Roxboro-Pierrefonds to the north since November 2025, and Des Sources to the south since May 2026, with 484 park-and-ride spaces and trains every 15 minutes. Add exit 55 off Highway 40, and DDO has never been better connected to the rest of the island.
Butchers, fishmongers, artisan bakeries, cheesemongers and, in season, stalls of Quebec fruits and vegetables: this gourmet market at the corner of Salaberry and Des Sources is the West Island's pantry. It's not a municipal market, it's a cluster of food shops where the whole neighbourhood crosses paths on Saturday mornings.
French elementary schools under the CSS Marguerite-Bourgeoys, Des Sources high school, the English-language Lester B. Pearson network, plus private schools like Collège de l'Ouest de l'Île, the Hebrew Foundation School and the Montreal Confucius School: the school offering, public and private alike, is genuinely rich for a suburban city.
Bungalows, single-storeys, cottages and split-levels built mostly from the 1960s to the 1980s, on generous lots along quiet crescents: here, the single-family home dominates the housing stock by a wide margin. West Park, near Centennial Park, and Sunnybrooke are among the most sought-after pockets; condos, meanwhile, stay rare.
More than 48,000 residents, about 40% born abroad, services in both French and English: DDO is one of the most multicultural cities in greater Montreal. And since 1980, its municipal patrol has kept watch around the clock, even calling seniors living alone every day through the R U OK program.
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