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Area · City of Mascouche, MRC Les Moulins, Lanaudière

Mascouche

A metropolitan forest steps from the bungalows, a mill from 1785, an old village coming back to life. Here's my top 10, the neighbour's version, not the brochure's.

Let's talk about this area

Mascouche is the North Shore, Lanaudière style. You take Highway 25 north, pass Highway 640, and arrive in a city that has doubled in size in one generation without losing its old village or its woodlands. From my home base in Verdun, I work here with buyers who want a lot, a yard and quick highway access, and with sellers who've watched their neighbourhood transform around them.

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. Every 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 Mascouche beat.

Ten reasons buyers head up to Lanaudière, and why the ones who get here don't leave.

01 The pond and greenery of Parc du Grand-Coteau, in Mascouche
The big playground

Parc du Grand-Coteau

This is the city's lungs and the meeting spot for everyone, open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. with two free parking lots. It has a multi-use trail network of nearly 19 kilometres, cross-country ski and snowshoe trails in winter, water play features from mid-May to the end of September, ping-pong tables and a training area. The city even lends out equipment for free, including adapted gear.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets get you to the park on foot or by bike without crossing a main road. It changes a family's day-to-day.
02 The sculpture honouring athlete Émilie Mondor, at the entrance to the Parc du Grand-Coteau trails
Local pride

The Émilie-Mondor trails

Émilie Mondor was born in Mascouche in 1981 and ran for Canada at the Olympic Games before she died in 2006, at 25. A sculpture now watches over the entrance to the Grand-Coteau trails, right where she trained, and the loops are named after her qualities: la Passionnée, la Déterminée, la Compétitive. The Classique Émilie Mondor brings in runners from everywhere every fall.

Ask me about it: ask me why I always have my buyers stop in front of that sculpture. A city that honours its people like that, you feel it in the neighbourhoods.
03 Autumn undergrowth in a Mascouche forest
Nature

The Domaine-Seigneurial metropolitan park

About 250 hectares, more than 200 of them forest, at the heart of the Grand Coteau forest corridor, which shelters a good share of Greater Montreal's land biodiversity. Hiking trails, a mountain biking zone, horse trails, a welcome chalet and a boat launch on the Mascouche River. The city is investing about twenty million dollars there and is eventually aiming for a network of roughly 25 kilometres of trails.

Ask me about it: ask me what protecting this forest corridor means for the neighbouring lots. It's the kind of detail we check before writing an offer to purchase.
04 The seigneurial manor of the Le Gardeur de Repentigny family in Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche, photographed in the early 20th century
Heritage

The 1785 mill and the vanished manor

The seigneurial estate tells the story of the city's origins. The flour mill dates back to 1785, the miller's house sits alongside it, and the manor built starting in 1795 was long the centrepiece of the site before it was demolished in 2020 for safety reasons. In the meantime, the estate was restored by Hazel Kemp-Colville from 1930 to 1954, occupied by the Brothers of Saint Gabriel until 1987, then acquired by the city in 2015.

Ask me about it: ask me what it means to buy in a city that buys back its heritage instead of letting it go. It shows over the long run.
05 Old postcard showing the Mascouche convent, in the old village
The old village

Chemin Sainte-Marie and Vieux-Mascouche

The village core spreads out around the Saint-Henri-de-Mascouche church, whose parish, founded in 1750, is the oldest in Les Moulins, and around city hall at 3034 chemin Sainte-Marie. Nearly all the houses and shops on the street date from 1850 to 1924, the oldest go back to the 18th century, and new businesses keep moving in. The place du Village Dionis-Chaput hosts the summer programming, and Espace Talant, opened in 2025, marks 40 years of twinning with Talant, France.

Ask me about it: ask me what to check before buying an older house in the old village. The charm is real, but there are questions to ask.
06
The neighbourhoods

Mascouche Heights, a hundred years later

In 1914, Harry Joy bought land and registered a subdivision under the name Terrebonne Gardens, which he sold to an English-speaking clientele from Montreal. The neighbourhood became Terrebonne Heights, then Mascouche Heights in the early 1970s. The Mascouche Community Club was for a long time the heart of social life there, and the city marked the area's hundredth anniversary in 2020 with a mural. It's still a neighbourhood with its own distinct character today.

Ask me about it: ask me for a tour of the city's different areas. Between the old village, the Heights and the recent developments, you're not looking at the same product at all.
07 The Mascouche River lined with trees in autumn colours
The water

The Mascouche River

Settlement began along this river in 1717, and it still crosses the city from east to west before joining the Rivière des Mille Îles. The name comes from Algonquin and evokes the bear. Today you can walk along it, put a canoe or a kayak in from the Domaine Seigneurial, and cross it without always realizing it on the drive to the old village.

Ask me about it: ask me which addresses actually touch the river and what that means for flood zones and insurance. It's a check I run systematically.
08 Overview of the themed gardens at Jardin Moore, on the banks of the Mascouche River
The curiosity

Jardin Moore, chemin Pincourt

On the riverbank, the Dyson Moore Foundation maintains an ecological garden where themed gardens, perennials, conifers and observation areas follow one another. Every summer, about twenty Quebec sculptors install their work there and the site becomes an open-air gallery, with exhibitions, workshops and performances. A lot of people from Montreal don't even know it exists forty minutes from home.

Ask me about it: ask me what I show my island clients when they're hesitant about heading up to the North Shore. Jardin Moore is part of the tour.
09 An exo train at the platform at gare Mascouche, the terminus of ligne 15
Transit

The ligne 15 train

The station at 1450 avenue de la Gare is the north terminus of exo's ligne 15, opened in December 2014, with about 680 park-and-ride spots. The big change came on January 12, 2026: gare Côte-de-Liesse became the line's south terminus and now offers a direct connection to the REM. As a result, the trip to downtown went from roughly 1 h 50 to about 1 h 07.

Ask me about it: ask me whether your future area is within walking, biking or bus distance of the station. It's become a serious selling point since January.
10 The gare Mascouche building and its park-and-ride lot
The projects

The station district and CentrOparc

Around avenue de la Gare, the city is developing an area oriented around transit, with medium and high-density buildings and neighbourhood shops. The Quartier 7 project alone, right across from the station and directly accessible from the Highway 25 ramp, calls for 559 rental units. Further south, the airport land closed in 2016 became CentrOparc, a business district stretching along Highway 640. To reach the island by car, there's Highway 25 and Highway 640, montée Masson as the main commercial artery, and exo's Terrebonne-Mascouche sector buses running to terminus Radisson and to terminus Montmorency, in Laval.

Ask me about it: ask me what these projects could change for properties in the area over the next ten years. It's exactly the kind of bet we assess together.
Let's talk

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