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Archive of hometown notes from Laval: local places, drinking water, taxes, and construction.
How Laval sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.
Indoor radon figures for Laval follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.
A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Laval in national context first.
Pôle culturel Montmorency is a reason people stay fond of Laval.
December 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
How Laval compares with nearby cities on City Score.
Laval's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.
A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.
Laval introduces itself as an island before it introduces itself as a suburb. Découvrez votre île is the municipal home line, and Lavallois
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Published residential mill-rate context for Laval.
Residential mill rates for Laval appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.
Assessment bases differ by province. Read Laval beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.
Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Mon Dossier is the branded citizen account gateway on laval.ca.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
November 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Where Laval sits in published building-permit figures for October 2023.
Construction intent in Laval shows up first as authorized permit dollars. Read a single month as a pulse, not a verdict.
Open the Laval permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Pôle culturel Montmorency is a reason people stay fond of Laval.
October 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Mon Dossier is the branded citizen account gateway on laval.ca.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Published residential mill-rate context for Laval.
Residential mill rates for Laval appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.
Assessment bases differ by province. Read Laval beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Laval sits at rank 89 of 125. The hometown read stays island-first: not downtown Montreal, not a
September 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Laval draws municipal drinking water from Rivière des Prairies and Rivière des Mille-Îles, treated at Station de Pont-Viau.
Ask where Laval drinking water begins and the answer is Rivière des Mille-Îles, then Station de Pont-Viau. That supply chain is what the water atlas puts beside hardness and lead.
East/central plant on Rivière des Prairies corridor; major upgrades completed mid-2010s.
See the Laval water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Seismic and wildfire context that applies to Laval.
Laval appears on NRCan seismic context (peak ground acceleration) and, where live, wildfire-season flags. Flood grades are incomplete on some pages.
Hazard pages are comparative geography, not insurance certificates. Pair them with provincial emergency bulletins when weather turns.
Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Advertised broadband availability for Laval.
Broadband rows for Laval come from ISED National Broadband Data: advertised max download, 50/10 availability, and technology flags where published.
A map hex is not a living-room speed test. Confirm with your ISP after reading the Laval internet page.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
August 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
How Laval sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.
Indoor radon figures for Laval follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.
A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Laval in national context first.
Centre de la Nature is a reason people stay fond of Laval.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
How Laval compares with nearby cities on City Score.
Laval's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.
A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Published residential mill-rate context for Laval.
Residential mill rates for Laval appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.
Assessment bases differ by province. Read Laval beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.
Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
July 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Where Laval sits in published building-permit figures for June 2023.
Construction intent in Laval shows up first as authorized permit dollars. Read a single month as a pulse, not a verdict.
Open the Laval permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.
Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Centre de la Nature is a reason people stay fond of Laval.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Mon Dossier is the branded citizen account gateway on laval.ca.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Laval sits at rank 89 of 125. The hometown read stays island-first: not downtown Montreal, not a
May 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Published residential mill-rate context for Laval.
Residential mill rates for Laval appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.
Assessment bases differ by province. Read Laval beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.
Laval introduces itself as an island before it introduces itself as a suburb. Découvrez votre île is the municipal home line, and Lavallois
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Laval draws municipal drinking water from Rivière des Prairies and Rivière des Mille-Îles, treated at Station de Sainte-Rose.
May 2023 is a good week to revisit Laval's source: Rivière des Prairies and Rivière des Mille-Îles. Treatment at Station de Sainte-Rose sits between the intake and the tap.
Northern plant on Rivière des Mille-Îles side of Île Jésus.
See the Laval water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.
Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Seismic and wildfire context that applies to Laval.
Laval appears on NRCan seismic context (peak ground acceleration) and, where live, wildfire-season flags. Flood grades are incomplete on some pages.
Hazard pages are comparative geography, not insurance certificates. Pair them with provincial emergency bulletins when weather turns.
Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
April 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Advertised broadband availability for Laval.
Broadband rows for Laval come from ISED National Broadband Data: advertised max download, 50/10 availability, and technology flags where published.
A map hex is not a living-room speed test. Confirm with your ISP after reading the Laval internet page.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
How Laval sits in Health Canada indoor-radon survey geography.
Indoor radon figures for Laval follow Health Canada survey geography, often at CMA or regional scale. Higher mean Bq/m³ ranks as higher risk on the board.
A home still needs its own long-term test. Use the radon page to put Laval in national context first.
Parc Champfleury is a reason people stay fond of Laval.
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
How Laval compares with nearby cities on City Score.
Laval's City Score blends published open-data pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity.
A Rising or Dropping badge marks a multi-year rank move. The green line on the hometown chart carries the year-by-year path.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Laval sits at rank 89 of 125. The hometown read stays island-first: not downtown Montreal, not a
February 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Published residential mill-rate context for Laval.
Residential mill rates for Laval appear when municipalities publish them. The highest published rate ranks first on that burden board.
Assessment bases differ by province. Read Laval beside provincial peers before calling any town cheap or expensive.
Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
February 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Mon Dossier is the branded citizen account gateway on laval.ca.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
Walk or drive through Laval long enough and Parc Champfleury comes up. Neighbourhood park that appears on the outdoor cinema schedule. A local alternative when Centre de la Nature feels crowded.
Civic life runs through Mon Dossier and a steady diet of neighbourhood programming. Bibliothèque Sylvain-Garneau and Bibliothèque Yves-Thériault host teen and poetry nights while the Pôle culturel Montmorency anchors the culture menu. The loudest policy file on the home page is health: Laval wants its juste part, and the hospital expansion campaign is framed as ready since 2018 and still waiting. Free trees and fireplace subsidies share space with that urgency, which is a very Laval mix of green gesture and hard service demand. Une île d'exceptions is the companion tagline on the city site, and it fits a place that argues for hospital capacity while posting cinema nights at Parc Champfleury the same week.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Where Laval sits in published building-permit figures for January 2023.
Building-permit value for Laval comes from Statistics Canada when a direct-tier row exists. Quiet months often follow busy ones.
Open the Laval permits page and the Construction Pulse rankings for the wider board.
Pôle culturel Montmorency is a reason people stay fond of Laval.
January 2023 in Laval: Pôle culturel Montmorency. Named cultural pole in the municipal culture menu. It signals that Laval keeps a dedicated arts address, not only park programming.
Hospital expansion advocacy is pitched as a project ready since 2018 that still needs to move.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.
Laval draws municipal drinking water from Rivière des Prairies and Rivière des Mille-Îles, treated at Station de Pont-Viau.
Ask where Laval drinking water begins and the answer is Rivière des Mille-Îles, then Station de Pont-Viau. That supply chain is what the water atlas puts beside hardness and lead.
East/central plant on Rivière des Prairies corridor; major upgrades completed mid-2010s.
See the Laval water page for the grade, source notes, and municipal report links.
Laval introduces itself as an island before it introduces itself as a suburb. Découvrez votre île is the municipal home line, and Lavallois
Centre de la Nature still orients Laval. Large municipal nature park used for summer cinema and eco programming. Lavallois treat it as the island's default green outing.
Centre de la Nature hosts outdoor cinema and nature workshops on the municipal activity calendar.
More on Laval: City Score history, neighbour compares, and the full topic set on the hometown page.