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Area · Municipality of Pointe-Calumet, Deux-Montagnes RCM

Pointe-Calumet

Fine sand beaches, a summer that makes noise and cottages turned into year-round homes. Here's my top 10, the neighbour's version, not the brochure's.

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Pointe-Calumet is a point of land jutting into the Lac des Deux Montagnes, between the orchards of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac and the far shore you can just make out from the end of the streets. From my home base in Verdun, I take Highway 13 or 15, drive Highway 640, and I'm there in a good half hour. About 6,300 people live here year-round, on barely five square kilometres of dry land, in a grid of narrow streets inherited from a time when everyone only came here for the summer.

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 Pointe-Calumet beat.

Ten reasons buyers fall in love with the place, and why the ones who get here don't leave.

01 The frozen water and a dock seen from montée de la Baie, in Pointe-Calumet
Waterfront

The Lac des Deux Montagnes at the end of the street

The municipality occupies a point jutting into the Lac des Deux Montagnes, a widening of the Ottawa River that then flows into the Rivière des Mille Îles and the Rivière des Prairies toward Montreal. Across the water, you can make out Île Bizard. Here, the lake is part of daily life: pontoon boats in summer, ice fishing and snowmobiling once the ice sets in.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets give real water access and which only offer a view. The distinction changes everything, and not just for the fun of it.
02 The Canadian National train station in Pointe-Calumet around 1950, with period cars and vacationers
History

Quebec's little Old Orchard

A map of the Seigneurie du Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes dated 1798 already carries the name Pointe à Calumet, after the long pipe smoked at gatherings. The point's fine sand beaches, paired with the arrival of the railway, started drawing vacationers as early as 1916. During the Second World War, traffic was so heavy that a sign announced you were in Quebec's little Old Orchard.

Ask me about it: ask me what's left of that era in today's buildings. You can still see it in the shape of the lots and the width of the streets.
03 The water slides at the Super Aqua Club in Pointe-Calumet, photographed off-season
The icon

The Super Aqua Club, the biggest in the province

Opened in 1985 on montée de la Baie, it's one of Quebec's largest water parks, with about forty attractions, a wave pool, a lazy river and a natural beach on the lake. Families from all over Greater Montreal come up here for the day, and a lot of local teenagers land their first summer job there.

Ask me about it: ask me what high season changes about local traffic. It can be planned around, and some areas barely feel it.
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Local colour

The Beachclub, the summer that makes noise

On 38e Avenue, a private beach has spent more than twenty-five years turning into an open-air concert venue, often billed as the biggest outdoor club in North America. Tiësto, Daddy Yankee and a long list of headliners have played there. It's a signature of the village, and it's also a neighbour to understand before you buy.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets are sheltered from the summer weekend traffic. I'd rather give you the straight answer than let you discover it in July.
05 Residential street lined with former converted cottages, near boulevard Proulx in Pointe-Calumet
The housing stock

Cottages turned into winter homes

Along boulevard Proulx and the numbered avenues, most of the housing stock comes from the old cottage-country zone. Most of these homes are occupied year-round today, but they weren't all converted the same way or at the same time. Small lots, 30 km/h streets, and a very wide range in construction quality from one address to the next.

Ask me about it: ask me for my checklist for a converted former cottage. Foundation, insulation, water and sewer services, the year the work was done: that's where the real value gets decided.
06 Shops and a resto-bar along montée de la Baie, in Pointe-Calumet
Local life

Montée de la Baie, the village's backbone

This is the artery that crosses the municipality and runs down to the lake. It has the digital welcome sign, a resto-bar, a gas station, a handful of neighbourhood shops, and the Knights of Columbus hall, which still serves as a gathering place. For the big grocery run, people head to Saint-Eustache or Deux-Montagnes, a few minutes away.

Ask me about it: ask me whether you can live here without two cars. The answer depends a lot on the address and the family's profile.
07 Shops along Pointe-Calumet's main artery, on a winter morning
Transit

The REM at Deux-Montagnes, a few minutes away

The REM's Deux-Montagnes branch has been in service since November 17, 2025, with fourteen new stations and trains every five to seven minutes at peak. The Deux-Montagnes terminus and the Grand-Moulin station are a short drive away, and exo bus lines 220 and 221 connect Pointe-Calumet to Deux-Montagnes. By car, Route 344 crosses the area toward Oka on one side, toward Saint-Eustache on the other, and Highway 640 is a few minutes away.

Ask me about it: ask me how long it really takes, door to door, to get downtown from here. I've timed it for my clients.
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Outdoors

Parc national d'Oka right next door

The municipality borders Parc national d'Oka, with its big beach on the lake, its campground, its walking trails and its cross-country ski network. At the other end, the orchards of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac fill up on fall weekends. And the old rail line that once linked Oka to Montreal has been converted into a bike path, giving you a pretty pleasant cycling corridor.

Ask me about it: ask me which addresses let you reach the path or the park without taking the car. It's an argument that carries more weight than people think at resale.
09 Boulevard Proulx at the corner of montée de la Baie, in Pointe-Calumet
Worth checking

The dike, the water and the flood maps

A dike was built in the mid-1970s to protect the low-lying lots. After the spring 2019 floods, the government declared a special intervention zone that put the brakes on new construction and rebuilding in the affected areas. Under the more recent maps, a significant share of the territory ends up identified as a flood zone. That's not a reason to avoid Pointe-Calumet, it's a reason to do your homework.

Ask me about it: ask me how I check the flood rating, insurability and municipal permits before submitting an offer to purchase. It's the first thing I look at here.
10 Pointe-Calumet town hall, decorated for the holiday season
Family life

A municipality on a human scale

Split off from the parish of Saint-Joseph-du-Lac in 1953 with fewer than 400 residents, Pointe-Calumet now counts a little over 6,200 and is part of the Deux-Montagnes RCM, in the Laurentians. École primaire des Perséides has welcomed the village's children since 1997, and its schoolyard has been completely redone; high school continues at Polyvalente Deux-Montagnes. Add the pool, the skating rinks, the sports fields and the day camp, and you have a picture of a place where everyone ends up recognizing each other.

Ask me about it: ask me what it changes, day to day, to live in such a small municipality. Some people love it, others not at all, and it's worth talking through beforehand.
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