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Area · Municipality of Saint-Mathieu, South Shore of Montreal

Saint-Mathieu

Genuine countryside about twenty minutes from the bridges, a highway exit all its own, and a village where everyone says hello. Here's my top 8, neighbour version, not brochure version.

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Saint-Mathieu is the smallest municipality in the Roussillon RCM, and that's exactly what gives it its charm. About 2,400 people, a village core around the church, then concession roads and cultivated fields as far as the eye can see. From Verdun, I take the Samuel De Champlain Bridge, Highway 15 South, and the suburbs fade away before you even reach exit 38. My clients who choose Saint-Mathieu are all looking for roughly the same thing: space, quiet, a real piece of land, without giving up the highway that brings them back to the city.

I put this top 8 together for a simple reason: when you buy or sell, you're not just shopping for a property, you're shopping for a village 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 8

What makes Saint-Mathieu tick.

Eight reasons families leave the tight suburbs for a concession road in Saint-Mathieu, and why the ones who try it stay.

01 The entrance to the village of Saint-Mathieu in winter, with the church bell tower in the distance
The character

Genuine countryside, right at the suburbs' doorstep

Across roughly thirty square kilometres, almost everything is agricultural zone: farms, fields, quiet concession roads, and a compact village where people greet each other by first name. While Candiac and Saint-Constant densify right next door, Saint-Mathieu stays a village. A lot of buyers discover you can live like you're out in the regions while still keeping Montreal within reach.

Ask me about it: ask me what the agricultural zone changes when you buy a property here. It's the kind of detail you want to understand before the offer to purchase, not after.
02
Access

Exit 38, all its own

Highway 15 runs through the territory, and exit 38 at montée Monette serves Saint-Mathieu and Saint-Philippe directly. The Samuel De Champlain and Honoré-Mercier bridges are about twenty minutes away, and Highway 30 is a short drive off, near Candiac. In practice, you live out in the fields, but in the morning you reach the highway before a lot of suburbanites stuck on their collector streets.

Ask me about it: ask me what the commute downtown or into Montérégie looks like based on your schedule. I make that drive often, and I can give you the straight goods.
03 The Rivière de la Tortue in spring, in Delson, downstream from Saint-Mathieu
Nature

The Rivière de la Tortue

It crosses the municipality from the southeast toward the north before heading on to Saint-Constant and Delson, and it runs through the area's history: before it was called Saint-Mathieu, the small locality was named La Tortue. The village actually grew up along this river and the railway. Today it traces green ribbons through the farmland and gives certain areas a real back-country feel.

Ask me about it: ask me what to check before buying near a waterway. I'd rather we look at that together early in the project than at signing time.
04 The calvary at the Saint-Mathieu cemetery, with its white statues at the foot of the cross
Heritage

The church and its calvary, the village backdrop

It all starts there: the Saint-Mathieu mission opened in 1914, and the church still shapes the face of the village core today. In the neighbouring cemetery, a calvary with white statues watches over the area's old families. It's not an overdone postcard scene, it's a church village of the kind you don't find anymore, fifteen minutes from the crown's shopping centres.

Ask me about it: ask me which streets benefit from this village-core atmosphere. There aren't many, and that's often where buyers fall head over heels.
05
Family life

École Jacques-Barclay, on rue Principale

Yes, the village has its own elementary school, and it's growing with the village. École Jacques-Barclay, part of the Centre de services scolaire des Grandes-Seigneuries, now welcomes little ones starting at age 4 and keeps Saint-Mathieu's kids through the end of elementary school, thanks to classrooms added for the 2024 school year. Walking to school in an agricultural village is a luxury a lot of suburbs no longer offer.

Ask me about it: ask me how high school works out when you live here. It's one of the first questions young families ask, and there are good answers.
06
Local life

Parc Pierre-Mondat, surprising for the village's size

Next to the community centre on chemin Saint-Édouard, the municipality has concentrated its facilities: a splash pad running all summer, a pumptrack, tennis, a ball field, basketball and a multi-use skating rink. Add the Danielle-Routhier library, day camp, and traditions like the Mother's Day brunch, and you get a community life that surprises people given the village's size.

Ask me about it: ask me what it changes day to day to have all that within biking distance. For families coming from the city, it's often the nice surprise.
07 The Saint-Mathieu church cemetery under the summer sun
History

Born in 1917, named in 1921

The municipality was born in 1917 out of parcels taken from four neighbouring parishes: Saint-Constant, Saint-Édouard, Saint-Philippe and Saint-Michel. It officially took the name Saint-Mathieu in 1921. A century later, it has kept its calling: land farmed from father to daughter, village houses with stories to tell, and an identity that mergers and development have never swallowed up.

Ask me about it: ask me how we check the real condition of a house that has some age on it. Inspection, warranties, history: I'll walk you through how to protect yourself without giving up the charm.
08 The Candiac exo station, minutes from Saint-Mathieu
The neighbours

All of Roussillon about ten minutes away

Let's be honest: there's no city bus in Saint-Mathieu, the car rules here. But services are right next door. Grocery stores, clinics, arenas and high schools await in Candiac, Delson, Saint-Constant and La Prairie. The Candiac station and its parking lot give access to the line 14 train downtown on weekdays, and Quartier DIX30 is about fifteen minutes away when Highway 30 is moving well.

Ask me about it: ask me how my clients here organize their weeks between the village and the neighbouring towns. The lifestyle is simpler than it looks.
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