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La Prairie

La Prairie is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Jacques River and the Saint Lawrence River in the Regional County Municipality of Roussillon.

La Prairie
La Prairie · Wikimedia Commons
The place

La Prairie is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Jacques River and the Saint Lawrence River in the Regional County Municipality of Roussillon. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 26,406.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around La Prairie

5 places 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
    Lachine Canal

    The Lachine Canal is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, running 14.5 kilometres from the Old Port of Montreal to Lake Saint-Louis, through the boroughs of Lachine, Lasalle and Sud-Ouest. Before the canal construction there was a lake, Lac St-Pierre or Lac à la Loutre or Petit Lac St-Pierre.

    9.7 km · canal in Montreal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Canal de l'Aqueduc

    The Canal de l'Aqueduc is an open-air aqueduct canal on the Island of Montreal in Quebec, Canada, serving part of the drinking water needs of the city of Montreal. The canal was built in 1853 by a commission headed by City Councillor Edwin Atwater.

    8 km · canal in Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Parc Angrignon

    Angrignon Park is an urban park in the Southwest borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Angrignon Park has a total area of 97 hectares.

    8.5 km · public park in Le Sud-Ouest borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Canadian Railway Museum

    The Canadian Railway Museum Musée ferroviaire canadien), operating under the brand name Exporail in both official languages, is a rail transport museum in Saint-Constant, Quebec, Canada, on Montreal's south shore.

    7.1 km · railway museum in Quebec · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Canadian Centre for Architecture

    The Canadian Centre for Architecture is a museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile, between rue Fort and rue Saint-Marc in what was once part of the Golden Square Mile.

    10 km · architecture museum and research institute in Montreal, Quebec · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to La Prairie

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 20 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 170 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 223 km
Stations
Angrignon, 8.6 km · Jolicoeur, 7.6 km · Lionel-Groulx, 9.3 km · Monk, 8.1 km · De L'Église, 7.1 km
  • Ottawa → La Prairie
    172 km · quickest by road, 3h 16m · C$27–35
  • Quebec → La Prairie
    235 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · C$32–43
  • Hamilton → La Prairie
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for La Prairie

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 La Prairie. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries (navettes) run to and from Île Sainte-Hélène May to October and to the suburb of Longueuil on the south shore.

From Wikivoyage: Montreal/Old Montreal, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    399 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    531 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,112 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,125 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,233 km

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

Around it

Next door to La Prairie

La Prairie is 12 km from Montréal, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brossardcity in Montérégie, Quebec, Canada6.5 km
  • Candiactown in the Montérégie, in Quebec, Canada4.3 km
  • Saint-Constantcity in Montérégie, Quebec, Canada7.9 km
  • Sainte-Catherinecity in Montérégie, in Quebec, Canada5.8 km
  • Saint-Lambertcity in Montérégie, Quebec, Canada9 km
  • Delsontown in Montérégie, Quebec, Canada7.1 km