Blainville

Blainville is a city in Quebec (Canada) located in the Lower Laurentians on the North Shore of Montreal, approximately 25 km north of the metropolis. Blainville is part of the regional county municipality (MRC) of Thérèse-De Blainville. With a population of 61,543 inhabitants, Blainville is the 2nd most populous city in the Laurentides administrative region after Saint-Jérôme and the 17th most populous in Quebec.

The town of Blainville is located at the southern limit of the Basses-Laurentides region, north of the Mille Îles River, on the north shore of the Montreal metropolitan region. The land is generally that of the St. Lawrence plain and was once part of a heavily agricultural area. The road network, which includes Highway 15 and Route 117, has gradually made it a dormitory town since the 1980s.