Licensed Daycares in Ile Des Chenes, MB
Île-des-Chênes appears three different ways in Manitoba's licensing data, as Ile Des Chenes, Ile des Chenes and Ile des Chênes, which tells you something…
6 listings found
Ile des Chenes has 6 licensed programmes. 4 publish their hours.
Daycare & Childcare in Ile Des Chenes
6
Licensed centres
Île-des-Chênes appears three different ways in Manitoba's licensing data, as Ile Des Chenes, Ile des Chenes and Ile des Chênes, which tells you something about a francophone community of about 2,000 whose name keeps getting flattened by English-language systems. Six licensed providers serve it. One of them, Les Boutons d'Or, operates in French. The rest do not, which for a community with a French name and a French history is a smaller share than most people expect.
What to know about childcare in Ile Des Chenes
Prairie Meadows Early Learning runs two of the six, listed as the main site and Site 2. That is two of your six. Between them they cover infants, preschoolers and school-age children. Little Steps Creative Centre is licensed for preschool alone, and Les Boutons d'Or for preschool and school age.
Two of the six are licensed family homes, Linda's Family Daycare and Rosie's Daycare, and both list infant, preschool and school-age places. That matters more than the ratio suggests, because home-based care is often the only realistic route to an infant space in a small Manitoba community, where centres with infant rooms are expensive to staff and rural centres tend to open them last, which is why a family here should ask both homes about infant availability before assuming a centre is the answer.
Nobody here has a rating. Not one of the six.
Île-des-Chênes sits in the Rural Municipality of Ritchot about 20 kilometres south of Winnipeg's Perimeter Highway, and a large share of working parents drive north every morning, which opens a genuine second option. A daycare near your workplace rather than near your house. Whether that is better depends entirely on who does pickup and on what happens when a child gets sent home sick at two in the afternoon.
Fees are the same everywhere. Manitoba's $10-a-day cap applies at every licensed centre and licensed home on this page. So the decision comes down to French-language programming, infant capacity, the length of the drive, and which of the six waiting lists moves first.
Browse Ile Des Chenes by program type
Daycares near Ile Des Chenes
Parents also ask
How many daycares are in Île-des-Chênes?
Is there French-language child care in Île-des-Chênes?
Which providers take infants in Île-des-Chênes?
What do daycares cost in Île-des-Chênes?
Why is the town spelled differently on different listings?
Tips for choosing childcare in Ile Des Chenes
Verify Licensing
Confirm the centre holds a current provincial licence. A licence means the province checked baseline health, safety and staffing standards — it is a floor, not a ranking.
Read Parent Reviews
Reviews cover what an inspection report never will: what drop-off feels like, whether messages get answered, how long staff stay.
Ask About Curriculum
Ask what a Tuesday actually looks like. "Montessori" and "play-based" mean different things at different centres, so the daily schedule tells you more than the label does.
Consider Schedule Fit
Check the posted open and close times against your commute, not just your workday. Then ask what happens when you're late.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many daycares are in Île-des-Chênes?
Six licensed providers: four centres and two licensed family homes. Prairie Meadows Early Learning operates two of the centres.
Is there French-language child care in Île-des-Chênes?
Les Boutons d'Or is the French-language provider in our records for the community.
Which providers take infants in Île-des-Chênes?
Four of the six list infant places, including both licensed family homes and both Prairie Meadows sites.
What do daycares cost in Île-des-Chênes?
Manitoba's $10-a-day parent fee cap applies at every licensed centre and licensed home for children under school age.
Why is the town spelled differently on different listings?
Manitoba's licensing records carry the name three ways, with and without accents. All three refer to the same community.
How many daycares in Ile Des Chenes publish their opening hours?
4 of the 6 licensed programmes MapleCub has on file in Ile Des Chenes publish their hours. The rest have not listed opening and closing times, so call to confirm.
Ask about spots near you
We email the centre and ask whether they have room for your child's age group. If they answer, we send you what they said. We don't hold live vacancy data, and centres aren't obliged to reply.
Get the monthly family digest
New daycares, CWELCC updates, and guides — delivered free once a month.