Laval, Quebec, Canada

Economy | Education | Attractions

🇨🇦 Laval is a Canadian city in south-western Quebec, north of Montreal. It is the largest suburb of Montreal, the third-largest city in the province.

Laval is geographically separated from the mainland to the north by the Rivière des Mille Îles, and from the Island of Montreal to the south by the Rivière des Prairies. Laval occupies all of Île Jésus as well as the Îles Laval.

Laval forms its own administrative region in Quebec.

Economy Laval's diverse economy is centred around the technology, pharmaceutical, industrial and retail sectors. It has many pharmaceutical laboratories but also stone quarries and a persistent agricultural sector. Long seen as a bedroom community, Laval has diversified its economy, especially in the retail sector, developing numerous shopping malls, warehouses and various retail stores. Laval has four different industrial parks.

The first is Industrial Park Centre, in the heart of Laval at the corner of St. Martin West and Industriel Blvd. One of the largest municipal industrial parks in Quebec, the Industrial Park Centre boasts the highest concentration of manufacturing companies in Laval: 1,024 at last count, and 22,378 employees. The park still has 1,300,643 m² (14,000,005 sq ft) of space available.

The second, the Autoroute 25 Industrial Park is at the crossroads of the metropolitan road network. Inaugurated in 2001, this new industrial municipal space has been a tremendous success, boasting an 80% occupancy rate. Laval is studying the possibility of expanding this park in the next few years.

The third, known as Industrial Park East, is in the neighbourhood of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul. This park has reached full capacity with a 100% occupancy rate. Industrial Park East is currently part of a municipal program to revitalize municipal services and public utilities. Laval is working with a private developer on an expansion project for the park that should be announced in the near future.

The fourth industrial park, the Laval Science and High Technology Park is located along Rivière des Prairies and Autoroute 15. It is an internationally renowned science campus that houses the Biotech City and the Information Technology Development Centre (ITDC). The Laval Science and High Technology Park is a beacon of the metropolitan economy, in an environment befitting the best technopolises in the world. Nearly 500,000 square metres (5,400,000 sq ft) of space are available for development. The Biotech City spans the entire territory of the Laval Science and High Technology Park and is a unique concept in Canada in that its residents comprise both universities and companies.

Created in 1995, Laval Technopole is a nonprofit organization that has the objective to promote the economic growth of Laval by attracting and supporting new business and investments located in its 5 territory poles: Biopole, e-Pol, Agropole, industrial pole and Leisure/tourism.

Alimentation Couche-Tard has its headquarters in Laval.

Education Laval is home to a variety of vocational/technical centres, colleges and universities, including: • College Montmorency • CDI College • Centre de formation Compétences-2000 • Centre de formation en métallurgie de Laval • Chomedey Centre • Centre de formation horticole de Laval • Centre de formation Paul-Émile-Dufresne • Herzing College • École hôtelière de Laval • École polymécanique de Laval • Centre de formation Le Chantier • Institut de protection contre les incendies du Québec • Université de Montréal (Laval campus) • Delta College • Université du Québec à Montréal (Laval campus).

Attractions Laval's main attractions are: • Centropolis • The Cosmodôme • Mille-Îles River Park • Mondial Choral Loto-Québec • Carrefour Laval shopping centre • Armand-Frappier museum • Rivière-des-Prairies' hydroelectric plant (3 dams) • Old Sainte-Dorothée • Old Sainte-Rose • Old Saint-Vincent-de-Paul • Sainte-Rose-de-Lima church • Saint-François-de-Sales church • Laval Symphony Orchestra • Salle André-Mathieu show hall • La Maison des Jardins' show hall • Centre de la Nature • Auteuilloise farm • Cardinal Golf club • Saint-François Golf club • Sainte-Rose Golf club • Boisé Papineau Park • Centre Laval shopping centre • Saute Centre de Trampoline: Laval Trampoline Park • Sainte-Rose en Blanc.

Laval, Quebec, Canada 

Laval has a population of over 422,993 people. Laval also forms part of the wider Montreal metropolitan area which has a population of over 4,027,100 people.

To set up a UBI Lab for Laval see: https://www.ubilabnetwork.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/UBILabNetwork

Twin Towns, Sister Cities Laval has links with:

🇷🇴 Botoșani, Romania 🇫🇷 Grenoble, France 🇦🇹 Klagenfurt, Austria 🇫🇷 Laval, France 🇨🇳 Mudanjiang, China 🇫🇷 Nice, France 🇮🇹 Padua, Italy 🇨🇱 Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Chile 🇮🇱 Petah Tikva, Israel 🇵🇹 Ribeira Grande, Portugal 🇸🇻 San Salvador, El Salvador
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Antipodal to Laval is: 106.255,-45.552

Locations Near: Laval -73.7448,45.5517

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🇨🇦 Bois-des-Filion -73.75,45.667 d: 12.8  

🇨🇦 Mount Royal -73.633,45.5 d: 10.4  

🇨🇦 Deux-Montagnes -73.887,45.538 d: 11.2  

🇨🇦 LaSalle -73.663,45.429 d: 15.1  

🇨🇦 Pierrefonds -73.883,45.467 d: 14.3  

🇨🇦 Châteauguay -73.75,45.38 d: 19.1  

🇨🇦 Terrebonne -73.633,45.692 d: 17.8  

Antipodal to: Laval 106.255,-45.552

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🇦🇺 Albany 117.867,-35.017 d: 18487.9  

🇦🇺 Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 18354.9  

🇦🇺 Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 18329  

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🇦🇺 Perth 115.857,-31.953 d: 18291.8  

🇦🇺 Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 18291.1  

🇦🇺 Guildford 115.973,-31.9 d: 18281.8  

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