Find Montréal parks and public spaces in open data

Looking for a Montréal park in the city's open data? The Grands parcs, parcs d’arrondissements et espaces publics catalogue brings together records for parks and public spaces. You can search those records in CanQuery and follow the municipal source to understand their coverage.

This guide starts with the published table. It is useful for finding names and reading the associated categories; it does not promise current opening hours, facilities, or conditions at a park.

Find a park by name

1. Open Montréal’s parks and public-spaces table.
2. Enter a park name, or a distinctive part of its name, in the search box above the table. Source values remain in their published language, so try the French name when you know it.
3. Look at Nom, the name field, to identify relevant records. A text search can also match another column, so check the name before assuming a result is the place you wanted.
4. Inspect the other fields and follow a record’s Lien, where one is supplied, for more context. Copy the link into your browser if the table displays it as text.
5. Save the current search by copying the page URL. The CSV export can take up to 10,000 matching rows into a spreadsheet.

The table can be read directly through the source’s query service. Start with its general text search; more detailed column filtering may require loading a copy into CanQuery.

Read the French field labels

The interface can be switched to English, but the City’s column names and record values retain their original language. Nom means name. Type identifies a type, while PROPRIETE, GESTION, and COMPETENCE are source fields associated with ownership, management, and responsibility. Consult the publisher's metadata before interpreting unfamiliar codes.

An area value such as SUPERFICIE also needs its source definition and units before you use it in a calculation. A large number on its own is not enough to compare two parks reliably.

Know the coverage limits

The City explains that this dataset is not fully representative of parks in Montréal's related municipalities. Its boundaries are intended for representation and should not be used to establish a precise legal boundary. Those limits matter when you cannot find a location or when a park appears to cover an unexpected area.

The separate inventory of furniture in large parks is a different dataset, much of which was updated in 2013. Do not treat an item in that inventory as confirmation that a bench, fountain, or other amenity is available today.

Check the publication behind the records

Open the official Montréal parks and public-spaces dataset for its description, available geographic downloads, and the City's linked visualization. CanQuery’s dataset page keeps the source attribution and resources together.

A metadata update date concerns the catalogue listing, not necessarily the condition of each park. This guide’s “Data links checked” date records our check of the links and exploration steps. For current access and services, consult the City’s information for the particular park.

Continue with the Montréal place page to explore other local data. Contains information published by the Ville de Montréal under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.