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Municipality in Quebec, Canada

Cantley

Cantley is a rural municipality in Quebec, Canada, north of the city of Gatineau, east of the Gatineau River, located within Canada's National Capital Region approximately 17 km (11 mi) from Parliament Hill.

Cantley
Cantley · James St. John
The place

Cantley is a rural municipality in Quebec, Canada, north of the city of Gatineau, east of the Gatineau River, located within Canada's National Capital Region approximately 17 km (11 mi) from Parliament Hill. Cantley is one of six municipalities within the Collines-de-l'Outaouais Regional County Municipality. Its roots are in farmland and mining, but recent housing projects since its creation in 1989 have resulted in a high rate of population growth. The population at the 2021 Canadian Census was 11,449, an increase of 7.0% from the 2016 population of 10,699. French is the first language of 86.7% of Cantley's residents.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cantley

One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Gatineau Satellite Station

    The Gatineau Satellite Station is a Canadian satellite station located in Cantley near Gatineau, in the province of Québec. Like the Prince Albert Radar Laboratory, it was originally a military Radar station, operated by the Canadian Defence Research Telecommunications Establishment, a division of the Canadian Defense Research Board.

    2.8 km · satellite ground station · Wikipedia

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Getting to Cantley

Airports
Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 29 km · Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 159 km · Syracuse Hancock (SYR), 274 km
  • Montréal → Cantley
    171 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · C$25–34
  • Hamilton → Cantley
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • Quebec → Cantley
    378 km · quickest by road, 7h 16m · C$55–75
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cantley

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cantley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    574 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    587 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,189 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,197 km
  5. 05
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    3,208 km

If you know how people move in Cantley – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Cantley

Cantley is 12 km from Gatineau, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.