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Pont-Viau

Pont-Viau is a district in the southern part of Laval, Quebec, Canada.

Pont-Viau
Pont-Viau · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Pont-Viau is a district in the southern part of Laval, Quebec, Canada. It was a town before August 6, 1965. It was named after Viau Bridge, which links it to Ahuntsic-Cartierville in Montreal, Quebec.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pont-Viau

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.

  1. 01
    Université de Montréal

    The Université de Montréal is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on Mount Royal near the Outremont Summit, in the borough of Outremont.

    8.2 km · university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Mount Royal

    Mount Royal is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The city's name is derived from its name.

    9.4 km · hill in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Île Jésus

    Île Jésus is a river island in southwestern Quebec, separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies. It is the second-largest island in the Hochelaga Archipelago, and the fourth most populous island in Canada, with more than 420,000 residents as of 2016.

    6.4 km · island in Quebec; site of the city of Laval · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Saint Joseph's Oratory

    Saint Joseph's Oratory of Mount Royal is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine located at 3800 Queen Mary Road in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood on Mount Royal's Westmount Summit in Montreal, Quebec. It is a National Historic Site of Canada and is Canada's largest church, with one of the largest church domes in the world.

    9.2 km · Roman Catholic minor basilica and national shrine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Montreal Botanical Garden

    The Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising 75 hectares of thematic gardens and greenhouses. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008 as it is considered to be one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent of its collections and facilities.

    9.2 km · botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Polytechnic School of Montreal

    Polytechnique Montréal is a public research university affiliated with the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The school offers graduate and postgraduate training, and is active in research.

    8.2 km · university in Montréal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Agence universitaire de la Francophonie

    The Agence universitaire de la Francophonie is a global network of French-speaking higher-education and research institutions. Founded in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1961, as the Association des Universités Partiellement ou Entièrement de Langue Française, the AUF is a multilateral institution supporting co-operation and solidarity among French-speaking universities and institutions.

    8.1 km · university network based in Montreal, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Montreal Holocaust Museum

    The Montreal Holocaust Museum is a museum located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is dedicated to educating people of all ages and backgrounds about the Holocaust, while sensitizing the public to the universal perils of antisemitism, racism, hate and indifference.

    8.7 km · Holocaust museum in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Percival Molson Memorial Stadium

    Percival Molson Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football and multi-purpose stadium in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the slopes of Mount Royal, in the borough of Ville-Marie. Named in honour of Percival Molson, and owned by McGill University, it was the home of the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League from 1954 to 1967 and again since 1998.

    9.7 km · stadium situated on the campus of McGill University in Montreal · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Montréal Insectarium

    The Montreal Insectarium is a natural history museum located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, featuring a large quantity of insects from all around the world. It is the largest insect museum in North America and among the largest insectariums worldwide.

    9.7 km · zoo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 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 Pont-Viau

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 11 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 157 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 223 km
Stations
Plamondon, 8.1 km · Côte-Vertu, 5.2 km · Côte-Sainte-Catherine, 8.5 km · Snowdon, 9.4 km · D'Iberville, 6.3 km
  • Ottawa → Pont-Viau
    158 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · C$25–33
  • Quebec → Pont-Viau
    235 km · quickest by road, 4h 23m · C$33–44
  • Hamilton → Pont-Viau
    14400 km · quickest by air, 29h 18m · NZ$3,140–4,850
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pont-Viau

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 Pont-Viau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inTimed connections in Quebec City enable same day trips to and from Rimouski via Rivière-du-Loup.
  • Get inTimed connections in Quebec City and Rimouski enable same day trips to and from Gaspé, Percé, and Pointe-à-la-Croix.
  • Go nextQuebec City, about 3 hours to the north east on Highway 40, is almost but not quite a day trip.

From Wikivoyage: 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

    418 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    548 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,131 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,144 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,253 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pont-Viau

Pont-Viau is 1 km from Laval, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.