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Saint-Léonard

Saint-Leonard is a borough (arrondissement) of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Saint-Léonard
Saint-Léonard · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Saint-Leonard is a borough (arrondissement) of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Formerly a separate city, it was amalgamated into the city of Montreal in 2002. The former city was originally called Saint-Leonard de Port Maurice after Leonard of Port Maurice, an Italian saint. The borough is home to Montreal's Via Italia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Saint-Léonard

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
    Olympic Stadium

    Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Montreal, Canada, located at Olympic Park in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district of the city. Built in the mid-1970s as the main venue for the 1976 Summer Olympics, it is nicknamed "The Big O", a reference to both its name and to the doughnut-shape of the permanent component of the stadium's roof.

    4.7 km · stadium built for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Saputo Stadium

    Saputo Stadium is a soccer-specific stadium at Olympic Park in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The stadium opened on May 21, 2008, and is the current home of CF Montréal.

    4.2 km · soccer stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.8 km · botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    4.1 km · zoo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Saint-Leonard Cavern

    The Saint-Léonard Cavern is a cave on the island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is located underneath Pie-XII Park in the borough of Saint-Léonard in Montreal.

    1 km · cave in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Montreal Biodome

    The Montreal Biodome is a museum of enclosed ecosystems located at Olympic Park in the Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, that allows visitors to walk through replicas of five ecosystems found in the Americas: Tropical rainforest, Laurentian maple forest, a Gulf of St. Lawrence estuary, Labrador Coast, and Sub-Antarctic Islands.

    4.6 km · zoo in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of the Madonna della Difesa

    The Church of the Madonna della Difesa is a Catholic church in the neighbourhood of Little Italy in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built by Italian immigrants to the city, specifically those from Molise, to commemorate the apparition of the Madonna in La Difesa, in Casacalenda, Molise.

    5.8 km · church building in Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Jean-Talon Market

    Jean-Talon Market is a farmer's market in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located in the Little Italy district, the market is bordered by Jean-Talon Street to the north, Mozart Ave.

    5.7 km · building in Henri Julien Avenue · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Saint-Esprit-de-Rosemont Church

    The Church of the Holy Spirit of Rosemont (formerly the Church of Ste.

    4.5 km · church building in Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Olympic Village in Montreal

    The Olympic Village is a twin-tower structure in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, built as the athletes' residence for the 1976 Summer Olympics. Designed by architects Roger D'Astous and Luc Durand, it was built massively over budget by a consortium of architects, including Joseph Zappia, who was later convicted of fraud in connection with his involvement with the building.

    3.8 km · twin-tower structure in Montreal, built as the athletes' residence for the 1976 Summer Olympics · 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 Saint-Léonard

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 17 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 164 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 216 km
Stations
Pie-IX, 5 km · Joliette, 5.6 km · Préfontaine, 5.9 km · Honoré-Beaugrand, 4.9 km · Radisson, 4.4 km
  • Ottawa → Saint-Léonard
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 7m · C$25–33
  • Quebec → Saint-Léonard
    228 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · C$31–41
  • Hamilton → Saint-Léonard
    18495 km · quickest by air, 36h 53m · NZ$4,070–6,290
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Saint-Léonard

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTo explore more of Hochelaga, it's a longer trek not served by metro, but there are plenty of buses and taxis.

From Wikivoyage: Montreal/Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, 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

    413 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    550 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,132 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,145 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,253 km

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

Around it

Next door to Saint-Léonard

Saint-Léonard is 8 km from Laval, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.