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Area · Town of Mount Royal, a related municipality on the island of Montreal

Ville Mont-Royal

A garden city laid out in 1912, curving streets under the trees, and now the REM speeding downtown in about nine minutes. My top 10, neighbour's view, not brochure view.

Let's talk about this area

The Town of Mount Royal, or TMR, is a town within the city: an independent related municipality at the heart of the island, planned in one stroke in 1912, where the character isn't an accident, it's a blueprint. You'll find streets designed for sunlight, about thirty parks, and since November 2025, a REM station that changes the game for buyers and sellers alike.

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, so use it.

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

The area's top 10

What makes Ville Mont-Royal tick.

Ten reasons buyers fall for the area, and why the ones who live there don't leave.

01 A curving, tree-lined street in the Town of Mount Royal, with a landscaped median typical of the original plan
The icon

The garden city drawn in one stroke

Incorporated in 1912 and entirely designed by landscape architect Frederick Gage Todd: a radial plan around the station, diagonal boulevards, streets oriented for sunlight. It's the only town in Quebec developed under a master plan of this kind, designated a national historic site of Canada in 2008. Here, the character is built into the structure.

Ask me about it: ask me what the famous Montreal melon has to do with TMR's history, before 1912 these streets were fields whose melons were exported all the way to New York. A great story to tell during a showing.
02 Entrance to the Ville-de-Mont-Royal station of the Réseau express métropolitain
Transit

The REM: Central Station in nine minutes

Since November 2025, the Ville-de-Mont-Royal station gets you to Central Station in about nine minutes, with more than 550 runs a day, every two minutes at peak hours, and connections to three metro lines. A direct link to YUL airport is planned for 2027. For resale value, that's a big deal.

Ask me about it: ask me which parts of town benefit most from the station without feeling its traffic, that nuance is worth a lot when you're buying.
03 Platform sign at the Ville-de-Mont-Royal REM station
Heritage

A town born from a tunnel

Surprising fact: the Canadian Northern Railway created TMR to finance the digging of the 5-kilometre tunnel under Mount Royal (1912 to 1918), selling residential lots to pay for the project. A hundred years later, that tunnel is the backbone of the REM, and the 1918 heritage station now houses a restaurant.

Ask me about it: ask me where to admire the original station, it's still standing right next to the new one, and it's one of my favourite stops in the area.
04 Rose garden and topiaries at Connaught Park, in the Town of Mount Royal
Nature

About thirty parks, a legacy of the original plan

Close to 30 parks and about 70 other green spaces: the direct legacy of the garden city plan. At the heart of town, Connaught Park brings together the Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau rose garden, tennis courts, and the Country Club, steps from Graham Boulevard, the local shopping street. Neighbourhood life happens on foot.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets back directly onto a park without the traffic of a major artery, that's the kind of detail that separates two comparable houses.
05 Interior corridor of Centre Rockland, in the Town of Mount Royal
Shopping

Rockland, pioneer of the Quebec shopping mall

Centre Rockland introduced the shopping mall concept to Quebec as early as 1959, and today it has about 170 shops across three floors. And since September 2024, the luxury hub Royalmount, with Louis Vuitton, Gucci, and Tiffany & Co., also sits on TMR's territory. Two shopping destinations without ever leaving town.

Ask me about it: ask me what Royalmount's arrival actually changes for owners in the area, my broker's take is more nuanced than the headlines.
06 Bilingual street signs at Sherwood Crescent and Portland Avenue, in the Town of Mount Royal
Family life

French and English schools within walking distance

French elementary and high schools (Saint-Clément, Mont-Royal, Pierre-Laporte) and two English elementary schools (Carlyle, Dunrae Gardens), all right here, in a town with recognized bilingual status where 20.3% of the population is under 15. Families who settle here often stay for a full generation.

Ask me about it: ask me which part of town falls into which school catchment area, that shapes a lot of searches before the first showing even happens.
07 A Tudor-style house in the Canora neighbourhood, typical of the Town of Mount Royal's residential heritage
The safe bet

Character protected by bylaw

Eight signature architectural styles, from the English cottage to the postwar house, are protected under the PIIA bylaw: exterior renovations have to respect the character of the area. For an owner, that's insurance on the character, and therefore on the value, in a residential area long known as one of the most affluent in the country.

Ask me about it: ask me what the PIIA actually involves before you renovate a facade or add an extension, better to know before you buy, not after.
08 The indoor atrium at Royalmount with the Louis Vuitton, Tiffany and Swarovski boutiques under the glass roof
Development

Royalmount, the luxury giant born in 2024

On September 5, 2024, Royalmount opened at the junction of Highways 15 and 40, on Mount Royal's own territory: more than 170 shops and some 60 restaurants, with the highest concentration of luxury brands in Quebec, led by Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Versace. A pedestrian bridge spans the Décarie to link the complex to the De la Savane metro station. Love it or criticize it, the project is redrawing the town's entire southwest quadrant.

Ask me about it: ask me what Royalmount means for property values depending on the corner of TMR. The effect is not felt the same way on the garden side as on the highway side.
09 The stalls of the Town of Mount Royal public market, under white tents on a summer day
Food scene

The Thursday public market at Connaught Park

Every Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m., from mid-June to late September, farmers and food artisans from the region set up at Connaught Park, on the pergola side. Local farms, stalls that change with the harvests, and neighbours who linger between errands. It's the kind of weekly gathering that sets the rhythm of a small town.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets let you walk to the market with the stroller. Walkability to Connaught Park is a criterion my buyers bring up almost every time.
10 The organizing committee of the Town of Mount Royal Field Day photographed on August 5, 1944, in front of the stands
Sports and leisure

From the 1944 Field Day to tomorrow's sports centre

The photo dates from August 5, 1944: the organizing committee of the Civic Recreation Association's Field Day, the ancestor of Mount Royal's municipal recreation. Eighty years later, the tradition continues in a big way: a sports and community centre of roughly 11,400 square metres has been under construction on Roosevelt Avenue since summer 2025, with an 89-million-dollar construction contract, a double gymnasium, an indoor pool and a running track. Delivery is expected around 2028.

Ask me about it: ask me what a facility like that means for the streets around Roosevelt. A construction site is short-term noise and a long-term selling point.
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