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Attractions

Attractions and heritage sites

What's worth visiting in Vaudreuil-Dorion - history, significance, and how to plan your visit.

Maison Trestler, a stone house museum in Vaudreuil-Dorion

Maison Trestler

A 1798 stone house museum with 16 period rooms and a local ghost story.

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The Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges building in Vaudreuil-Dorion

Musée régional de Vaudreuil-Soulanges

A regional heritage museum in a former 1847 boys' school, with 9,000+ artifacts.

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Église Saint-Michel de Vaudreuil, a historic church in Vaudreuil-Dorion

Église Saint-Michel de Vaudreuil

One of the region's oldest churches, classified as a Quebec heritage building since 1957.

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Maison Félix-Leclerc heritage site in Vaudreuil-Dorion

Maison Félix-Leclerc

The country home where singer-poet Félix Leclerc lived and wrote from 1956 to 1966.

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Maison Joachim-Génus, also known as Maison Valois, in Vaudreuil-Dorion

Maison Joachim-Génus (Maison Valois)

One of the area's oldest surviving houses, built in 1796, now the City's arts and culture centre.

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Cimetière Saint-Michel de Vaudreuil, the parish cemetery beside Église Saint-Michel

Cimetière Saint-Michel de Vaudreuil

The parish cemetery beside Église Saint-Michel, and the burial place of historian Lionel Groulx.

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The Maison du Chanoine-Lionel-Groulx heritage house in Vaudreuil-Dorion

Maison du Chanoine-Lionel-Groulx

The 1872 rural home where historian Lionel Groulx grew up, protected as a heritage site since 2012.

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Gare Dorion, an 1887 train station in Vaudreuil-Dorion, seen from the modern Exo commuter platform

Gare Dorion

An 1887 Canadian Pacific train station - the oldest surviving station in the region - beside an active commuter stop.

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Vignoble Côte de Vaudreuil

A working Quebec vineyard that hosts "L'Art au Vignoble," one of the province's largest open-air sculpture exhibits.

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Le 405

A waterfront park on Vaudreuil Bay, created in 2021, that hosts the city's circus festival and summer events.

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Tour d'eau de Dorion

A working water tower painted as a large-scale mural depicting six "guardians" of local history.

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The Pierre de Rigaud historic plaque in Vaudreuil-Dorion, erected by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada

Plaque de Pierre de Rigaud

A federal historic plaque explaining the origin of the city's name, honouring the last French governor of New France.

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Site archéologique de l'Île-aux-Tourtes

A classified archaeological site with traces of pre-colonial occupation and a 1704-1727 Sulpician mission - not open to visitors.

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