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Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension is a borough (arrondissement) in the city of Montreal, Quebec.

Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension
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The place

Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension is a borough (arrondissement) in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It had a population of 145,090 according to the 2021 Census and a land area of 16.5 square kilometres (6.4 mi2).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

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
    McGill University

    McGill University is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, the university bears the name of James McGill, a Scottish merchant, whose bequest in 1813 established the University of McGill College.

    5.7 km · English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    5 km · university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    4.9 km · stadium built for the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Université du Québec à Montréal

    The Université du Québec à Montréal is a French-language public research university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec system.

    5.7 km · university based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    5 km · soccer stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    4.1 km · botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

    The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec is a Quebec government agency which manages the province's legal deposit system, national archives, and national library.

    5.5 km · library and archives institution · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    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.

    4.9 km · university in Montréal · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    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.

    5.3 km · university network based in Montreal, Canada · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Redpath Museum

    The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history belonging to McGill University and located on the university's campus on Sherbrooke Street West in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1882 as a gift from the sugar baron Peter Redpath.

    5.7 km · museum of natural history 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 Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

Airports
Montreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau (YUL), 14 km · Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier (YOW), 162 km · Quebec Jean Lesage (YQB), 220 km
Stations
Berri-UQAM, 5.6 km · Beaudry, 5.6 km · Pie-IX, 4.9 km · Papineau, 5.6 km · Frontenac, 5.1 km
  • Ottawa → Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension
    164 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · C$24–32
  • Quebec → Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension
    231 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · C$31–41
  • Hamilton → Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension
    14405 km · quickest by air, 29h 28m · NZ$3,140–4,860
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

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 Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. 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

    412 km
  2. 02
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    546 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    3,128 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    3,141 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    3,249 km

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Around it

Next door to Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension is 5 km from Montréal, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.