Living · Family duel · Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse or Mirabel · October 13, 2026
Two neighbouring areas seen with children: schools, parks, commutes, and the compromise that decides between Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse and Mirabel.
Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse or Mirabel for a family, side by side. Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse: The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board; Cégep Lionel-Groulx is in Sainte-Thérèse. House supply is the thinnest on the North Shore (96 listings): little choice and multiple offers. Mirabel: The city falls under the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles (south) and de la Rivière-du-Nord (north), and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. No train or dense town: Mirabel is lived by car between sectors separated by fields. For those who want the North Shore one bridge from Laval, with a CEGEP, a station, an old downtown and the Faubourg, in a house under $700,000 or a condo under $400,000; for students and young households in Sainte-Thérèse. For families who want a new or recent house with a garage and a park, Highway 15 and a price below Blainville; for those working at the airport, in aerospace or in the Laurentians.
Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse or Mirabel for a family: two neighbouring areas, the same questions on both sides. Schools, parks, commutes and the compromise each one asks of a family, taken from our neighbourhood guides and from what families tell us after the visits. The figures are those published by the APCIQ for the second quarter of 2026; nothing is embellished.
| Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse | Mirabel | |
|---|---|---|
| Schools | The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board; Cégep Lionel-Groulx is in Sainte-Thérèse. | The city falls under the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles (south) and de la Rivière-du-Nord (north), and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. |
| Parks | The Rivière des Mille Îles park in Boisbriand, the Grand Coteau and the neighbourhood parks are the large spaces; the arenas, the pools and the Lionel-Groulx theatre in Sainte-Thérèse complete the offer. | Domaine-Vert park (trails, cross-country skiing, beach) and the Bois-de-Belle-Rivière regional park are the large spaces; the bike paths of the new neighbourhoods and the sector parks complete the offer. |
| Commutes | Sainte-Thérèse station, on the exo Saint-Jérôme line, leads to Central Station; exo Laurentides buses reach Montmorency metro via Highway 15 in a few kilometres. | Mirabel has no train station: exo Laurentides buses reach Blainville station, Saint-Jérôme station and Montmorency metro. |
| The market in 2026 | The Boisbriand/Sainte-Thérèse sector is the North Shore's thinnest house market: 96 active listings in Q2 2026, a $640,000 median (+5 % year over year, +47 % in five years) and 29 days on market. | Mirabel is a market of new and recent houses: a $657,000 median in Q2 2026 (+8 % year over year, +51 % in five years), 27 days on market, 187 active listings. |
| For which family | For those who want the North Shore one bridge from Laval, with a CEGEP, a station, an old downtown and the Faubourg, in a house under $700,000 or a condo under $400,000; for students and young households in Sainte-Thérèse. | For families who want a new or recent house with a garage and a park, Highway 15 and a price below Blainville; for those working at the airport, in aerospace or in the Laurentians. |
Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse: For those who want the North Shore one bridge from Laval, with a CEGEP, a station, an old downtown and the Faubourg, in a house under $700,000 or a condo under $400,000; for students and young households in Sainte-Thérèse. Mirabel: For families who want a new or recent house with a garage and a park, Highway 15 and a price below Blainville; for those working at the airport, in aerospace or in the Laurentians.
The compromise that most often decides between the two, seen with children. On one side, house supply is the thinnest on the North Shore (96 listings): little choice and multiple offers. On the other, no train or dense town: Mirabel is lived by car between sectors separated by fields. The family that accepts one of the two more easily has found its neighbourhood. The full family portrait of each is in Living in Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse with a family and Living in Mirabel with a family; the general duel, all profiles together, is in Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse or Mirabel: the pros and cons.
For those who want the North Shore one bridge from Laval, with a CEGEP, a station, an old downtown and the Faubourg, in a house under $700,000 or a condo under $400,000; for students and young households in Sainte-Thérèse. For families who want a new or recent house with a garage and a park, Highway 15 and a price below Blainville; for those working at the airport, in aerospace or in the Laurentians. The area whose compromise bothers you least is the right one.
The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board; Cégep Lionel-Groulx is in Sainte-Thérèse. The city falls under the Centre de services scolaire des Mille-Îles (south) and de la Rivière-du-Nord (north), and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. No page replaces checking the school catchment of the exact address.
Sainte-Thérèse station, on the exo Saint-Jérôme line, leads to Central Station; exo Laurentides buses reach Montmorency metro via Highway 15 in a few kilometres. Mirabel has no train station: exo Laurentides buses reach Blainville station, Saint-Jérôme station and Montmorency metro. Do both commutes once, on a Tuesday morning, before deciding.
Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Boisbriand and Sainte-Thérèse and Living in Mirabel guides and from what families tell us after the visits; no figure is added to those published by the APCIQ, and ranking schools is not our trade. The other neighbourhood duels seen with children are in neighbourhood against neighbourhood for a family.
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