Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau or Duvernay for a family: schools, parks, commutes and compromises (2026)

Living · Family duel · Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau or Duvernay · October 13, 2026

Two neighbouring areas seen with children: schools, parks, commutes, and the compromise that decides between Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau and Duvernay.

Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau or Duvernay for a family, side by side. Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau: The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board; Collège Montmorency and the Université de Montréal's Laval campus are in Laval-des-Rapides. Urban and noisy on its boulevards (Saint-Martin, Le Corbusier, highway 15): quiet is found on the inner streets. Duvernay: The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board. No train or metro: Duvernay is lived by car, and the Pie-IX Bridge is saturated at rush hour. For those who want the metro on foot, a recent condo with services and the Centropolis downstairs; for families looking for a bungalow with a lot in Chomedey one bridge from Montreal; for first-time buyers targeting Pont-Viau. For families who want a large house on a large lot, quiet streets and quick access to eastern Montreal and the North Shore; for those looking for a recent house in Val-des-Brises.

Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau or Duvernay 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.

Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau with children

Schools in Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau

• The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board; Collège Montmorency and the Université de Montréal's Laval campus are in Laval-des-Rapides.
• The Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital is in Chomedey; the Cité-de-la-Santé hospital, in Vimont, is Laval's general hospital.

Parks and neighbourhood life in Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau

• The Centre de la nature is next door (Saint-Vincent-de-Paul); in the sector, Parc Bernard-Landry, the Centropolis with its restaurants and venues, Place Bell (arena and shows), the Cosmodôme and the Rivière des Prairies banks in Pont-Viau.
• The Carrefour Laval and boulevard Saint-Martin are the whole city's commercial hub; boulevard des Laurentides and boulevard Cartier have the neighbourhood shops.

Commutes from Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau

• Laval's three orange-line stations, Montmorency (terminus), De la Concorde and Cartier, are all in the sector; De la Concorde is also an exo Saint-Jérôme line station.

What a family has to accept in Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau

• Urban and noisy on its boulevards (Saint-Martin, Le Corbusier, highway 15): quiet is found on the inner streets.
• Large condos get negotiated: 60 days on market, the longest in Laval, and new supply competing with resale.

Duvernay with children

Schools in Duvernay

• The sector falls under the Centre de services scolaire de Laval and the Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board.
• The Cité-de-la-Santé hospital (Vimont) is Laval's hospital; Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur and Hôpital Fleury, in Montreal, are across the bridge.

Parks and neighbourhood life in Duvernay

• The Centre de la nature, Laval's great park with its lake, farm and trails, is at the sector's limit in Saint-Vincent-de-Paul; within Duvernay, the Val-des-Brises park, the boulevard Lévesque banks and neighbourhood parks with arenas and pools.
• Shops are on boulevard de la Concorde, boulevard Vanier and near Highway 25; the Carrefour Laval is a few kilometres away via the 440.

Commutes from Duvernay

• Duvernay has neither metro nor train station: STL buses reach the Cartier terminus and Montmorency metro.

What a family has to accept in Duvernay

• No train or metro: Duvernay is lived by car, and the Pie-IX Bridge is saturated at rush hour.
• Supply is thin (77 houses active): you must be ready to offer fast, often in competition.

Head to head, for a family

Our verdict

Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau: For those who want the metro on foot, a recent condo with services and the Centropolis downstairs; for families looking for a bungalow with a lot in Chomedey one bridge from Montreal; for first-time buyers targeting Pont-Viau. Duvernay: For families who want a large house on a large lot, quiet streets and quick access to eastern Montreal and the North Shore; for those looking for a recent house in Val-des-Brises.

The compromise that most often decides between the two, seen with children. On one side, urban and noisy on its boulevards (Saint-Martin, Le Corbusier, highway 15): quiet is found on the inner streets. On the other, no train or metro: Duvernay is lived by car, and the Pie-IX Bridge is saturated at rush hour. The family that accepts one of the two more easily has found its neighbourhood. The full family portrait of each is in Living in Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau with a family and Living in Duvernay with a family; the general duel, all profiles together, is in Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau or Duvernay: the pros and cons.

What to check street by street before choosing

• The school catchment of the exact address, elementary and high school, with the school service centre: it changes from one street to the next in both areas.
• The real commute on a Tuesday morning, with the detour by the daycare or the school, from each shortlisted street.
• The flood zone and insurability, if the street is near a river, a canal or the St. Lawrence.
• Noise at rush hour: highway, rail line, flight corridor, commercial artery, schoolyard.

Frequently asked questions

Written by the Loaa & Manseur team from our Living in Chomedey, Laval-des-Rapides and Pont-Viau and Living in Duvernay 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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Published September 7, 2026 by the Loaa & Manseur team, the number 1 team at RE/MAX Platine in 2024 and 2025, 6th RE/MAX team in Quebec, 15th in Canada and in the global top 50 according to the official RE/MAX ranking. Tell us about your project.