Pierrefonds
Pierrefonds is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada.
Pierrefonds is a former city in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is located along the Rivière des Prairies on the western shore of the southern part of the Island of Montreal. It was merged into Montreal on January 1, 2002, and is today part of the borough of Pierrefonds-Roxboro.
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Worth seeing in and around Pierrefonds
10 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.
- 01Lake of Two Mountains
Lake of Two Mountains is part of the river delta widening of the Ottawa River in Quebec, Canada, at its confluence with the St. Lawrence River.
9.3 km · lake in Laurentides, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia - 02Fort Senneville
Fort Senneville is one of the outlying forts of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built by the Canadiens of New France near the Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue in 1671. The property was part of a fief ceded to Dugué de Boisbriant in 1672 by the Sulpicians.
8.4 km · fort and trading post in Senneville, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia - 03Église Sainte-Geneviève
The Église Sainte-Geneviève is a parish church located in the former village of Sainte-Geneviève, Québec on the north-west shore of the Island of Montreal overlooking the Rivière des Prairies.
1.7 km · church building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia - 04Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal
The Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal is a canal and set of locks linking Lake Saint-Louis and Lake of Two Mountains at Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the very westernmost point of Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada. It is a National Historic Site of Canada.
8.9 km · Canal system in Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia - 05J. S. Marshall Radar Observatory
The J.S. Marshall Radar Observatory is a McGill University facility in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada housing several weather radars and other meteorological sensors, many of them running around the clock. It is one of the components of the McGill Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department where students in remote sensing perform their research.
6.3 km · weather research station operated by McGill University · Wikipedia - 06Galipeault Bridge
The Galipeault Bridge is a bridge on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, spanning the Ottawa River between Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue and L'Île-Perrot, Quebec, Canada. It carries five lanes of Autoroute 20, and was named after Antonin Galipeault, who was minister of public works under Louis-Alexandre Taschereau.
9.1 km · bridge in Canada · Wikipedia - 07Île aux Tourtes Bridge
The Île aux Tourtes Bridge is a bridge on the western tip of the Island of Montreal, spanning Lake of Two Mountains between Senneville, and Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada. It carries six lanes of Autoroute 40 and is the main transportation link between Montreal and the province of Ontario.
10 km · bridge in Canada · Wikipedia - 08Collège Gérald-Godin
Cégep Gérald-Godin is a French-language public college located in Sainte-Geneviève, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the first and only French-language public college on the West Island of Montreal.
2.2 km · Public college in Montréal, Quebec · Wikipedia - 09National Field of Honour
The National Field of Honour is a military cemetery for Canadian and Allied Veterans and eligible dependents. It is in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada.
4.4 km · building in Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia - 10Macdonald Campus
The Macdonald Campus is a campus of McGill University, located in the city of Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, Canada. The campus mainly hosts agricultural, environmental, and food sciences programs.
7.9 km · campus of McGill University · Wikipedia
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Getting to Pierrefonds
- Airports
- Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 11 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 140 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 242 km
- Stations
- Grand-Moulin, 7.9 km · Sainte-Dorothée, 6.5 km · Marie-Curie, 9.7 km · Sunnybrooke, 8.7 km · Fairview–Pointe-Claire, 3.8 km
- Ottawa → Pierrefonds141 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · C$22–29
- Quebec → Pierrefonds255 km · quickest by road, 4h 46m · C$34–46
- Hamilton → Pierrefonds18589 km · quickest by air, 36h 27m · NZ$4,030–6,230
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Pierrefonds
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 Pierrefonds. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextA ferry from Hudson takes you across the Lake of Two Mountains to the village of Oka, featuring a cheese-making monastery, a large water park, and the Kanesatake Mohawk Reserve (the site of a standoff in Canadian history known as the "Oka Crisis").
From Wikivoyage: Montreal/West Island, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Pierrefonds
Pierrefonds is 19 km from Laval, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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