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Sainte-Catherine

Sainte-Catherine is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the St.

Sainte-Catherine
Sainte-Catherine · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Sainte-Catherine is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, on the St. Lawrence River in the Regional County Municipality of Roussillon. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 17,347.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sainte-Catherine

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
    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.

    6.8 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.

    4.2 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.

    4.9 km · public park in Le Sud-Ouest borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Montreal Arena

    The Montreal Arena, also known as Westmount Arena, was an indoor arena located in Westmount, Quebec, Canada on the corner of St. Catherine Street and Wood Avenue.

    9.4 km · building · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    3.3 km · railway museum in Quebec · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    9.7 km · architecture museum and research institute in Montreal, Quebec · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Maison Saint-Gabriel

    The Maison Saint-Gabriel Museum is located in Montreal, Quebec and is dedicated to preserving the history, heritage and artifacts of the settlers of New France in the mid 17th century. The museum consists of a small farm, which has been administered for more than 300 years by the Sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame of Montreal, founded by Marguerite Bourgeoys in Montreal in 1658.

    8.1 km · museum in Montreal · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Cabot Square, Montreal

    Cabot Square is an urban square in Montreal, Quebec, Canada between the former Montreal Forum and the former Montreal Children's Hospital. The square is in the Shaughnessy Village neighbourhood, an area recently re-dubbed the Quartier des Grands Jardins and has been slated for redevelopment.

    9.5 km · square · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Champlain Bridge

    The Champlain Bridge was a steel truss cantilever bridge with approach viaducts constructed of prestressed concrete beams supporting a prestressed concrete deck paved with asphalt. Opened in 1962, the bridge crossed the Saint Lawrence River, connecting the Island of Montreal to its South Shore suburbs.

    8.4 km · bridge in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    René Lévesque Park

    René-Lévesque Park is an urban park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the borough of Lachine on a jetty between the Saint Lawrence River and the end of the Lachine Canal.

    9 km · public park in the Lachine borough of 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 Sainte-Catherine

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 15 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 164 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 228 km
Stations
Angrignon, 5.4 km · Monk, 5.6 km · Jolicoeur, 5.9 km · Lionel-Groulx, 8.8 km · De L'Église, 6.5 km
  • Ottawa → Sainte-Catherine
    165 km · quickest by road, 3h 8m · C$25–34
  • Quebec → Sainte-Catherine
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · C$16–22
  • Hamilton → Sainte-Catherine
    Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
  • From anywhere
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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 Sainte-Catherine

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 Sainte-Catherine. 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

    403 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    530 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 Sainte-Catherine – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Sainte-Catherine

Sainte-Catherine is 12 km from Montréal, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.