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Saint-Hubert

The Canadian space program down the street, a brand new terminal and a lake in the middle of a huge park. Here's my top 10, neighbour version, not brochure version.

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Saint-Hubert is the South Shore at its most genuine. A former farming territory that became a borough of Longueuil in 2002, where aviation has been writing history since 1927 and where bungalow neighbourhoods reinvent themselves one address at a time. For a lot of buyers coming from the island, it's the discovery that finally unlocks a project.

As a residential and commercial real estate broker, I work all over the greater Montreal area, and Saint-Hubert comes up often in my files. 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 a conversation starter. Use it.

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

The area's top 10

What makes Saint-Hubert tick.

Ten reasons buyers look this side of the river, and why the ones who settle here end up staying.

01 Walking trail at Parc de la Cité in Saint-Hubert, in summer
The icon

Parc de la Cité

Created in the early 1990s, it's Saint-Hubert's big green lung: 960,000 square metres around a lake roughly a kilometre long, with 8 km of trails for walking or biking. In winter, the lit-up skating rink and the sledding hill take over, and the welcome pavilion even has its own little café.

Ask me about it: ask me which residential pockets you can walk to the lake from. Living near a park like this one shows when it comes time to resell.
02 Small planes on the tarmac at Saint-Hubert Airport in winter
Takeoff

A brand new terminal

On June 15, 2026, the Montreal Metropolitan Airport (MET) opened its new 21,000-square-metre terminal in Saint-Hubert, with Porter and Pascan as first carriers. We're talking a capacity of up to 4 million passengers a year, just minutes from the residential neighbourhoods.

Ask me about it: ask me what the arrival of passenger flights changes for an owner in the area, both ways. I'll give you the straight goods, flight paths included.
03 The R-100 airship moored at the Saint-Hubert mooring mast in 1930
Heritage

The R-100 and the cradle of civil aviation

True story: the first plane landed here on November 1, 1927, on what would become the country's first civil airport. Then on August 1, 1930, the British airship R-100 moored at the Saint-Hubert mast after nearly 79 hours crossing from England. An estimated 800,000 to 1 million onlookers came to see it during its 12-day stopover.

Ask me about it: ask me why this story is still a point of pride for people around here. It's the kind of detail that gives a neighbourhood a soul.
04 Sign at the John H. Chapman Space Centre, headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency in Saint-Hubert
The unexpected

The Canadian Space Agency

Yes, the Canadian space program is run out of Saint-Hubert. The John H. Chapman Space Centre, headquarters of the Canadian Space Agency on Airport Road, houses around 600 employees, the astronaut office and satellite control rooms. Not many neighbourhoods can say their neighbours work on the Canadarm.

Ask me about it: ask me what a federal and scientific employment hub of this size brings to the stability of a local market.
05 The old Saint-Hubert church and its cemetery in spring
The village heart

Old Saint-Hubert and chemin de Chambly

Along chemin de Chambly you'll find the original village core: the old church, its rectory, the tree-lined cemetery and shops set up in heritage houses. The City of Longueuil has actually made it one of its neighbourhood hearts to revitalize. Local wink: the bell tower long served as a visual landmark for pilots in the airport area.

Ask me about it: ask me where the properties with real character are hiding in Old Saint-Hubert. There are fewer than you'd think, and they move fast.
06 Platforms at the Longueuil-Saint-Hubert exo train station
Transit

Two train stations (and everything else)

Saint-Hubert has two exo stations on the Mont-Saint-Hilaire train line: Longueuil-Saint-Hubert and Saint-Hubert. From the first, you reach Gare Centrale in about 21 minutes. RTL buses run to the Longueuil terminus for the yellow métro line, with connections to the REM's Panama station. By car, Route 116 and Highway 30 frame the area.

Ask me about it: ask me which neighbourhoods let you walk to the train in the morning. The radius is smaller than you'd think, and it shows in the value.
07 Wooden boardwalk in the Du Tremblay woodland in Longueuil
Nature

The Du Tremblay woodland

More than 260 hectares of forest, wetlands and wooden boardwalks: the Du Tremblay woodland is Longueuil's largest nature park, and part of it holds wildlife refuge status. It's home turf for the western chorus frog, a small threatened frog the City actively protects. You can wander through real nature without ever leaving the city.

Ask me about it: ask me what a protected natural environment means for neighbouring lots and projects. It's worth thinking through both ways.
08 Training aircraft in a hangar at the École nationale d'aérotechnique in Saint-Hubert
Knowledge & jobs

The ÉNA and the aeronautics zone

Since 1973, the École nationale d'aérotechnique of Cégep Édouard-Montpetit has trained aeronautics technicians right in the airport zone, with real aircraft in its hangars. Around it gravitate the Centre technologique en aérospatiale and other industry businesses. The result: a pool of specialized jobs right in the borough.

Ask me about it: ask me why an employment hub like this one draws so much interest from rental property investors.
09 Grande Allée street in Saint-Hubert, lined with plexes and shops
Everyday life

Cousineau, Grande Allée and company

Boulevard Cousineau lines up services and restaurants, Grande Allée is one of the oldest roads on the South Shore, and chemin de Chambly runs through the borough end to end. In practice, you live in Saint-Hubert without crossing a bridge for groceries, a dentist appointment or Friday night dinner out.

Ask me about it: ask me which residential streets benefit from the main arteries without the noise. That's often where the best value hides.
10 Outdoor pool at Parc Marcel-Simard in Saint-Hubert
Family life

Neighbourhoods that reinvent themselves

Saint-Hubert is, above all, family neighbourhoods. In the Laflèche sector, bungalows from the 1960s and 1970s are transforming one address at a time. Schools from both networks are on site, Heritage Regional High School among them, and neighbourhood pools like the one at Parc Marcel-Simard set the rhythm of summer. Local pride: a boulevard and the sports centre are named after Gaétan Boucher, Olympic gold medallist in 1984.

Ask me about it: ask me which small pockets young families are fighting over right now in Saint-Hubert. They're not where you'd think.
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