8 licensed daycares in L Ile Bizard, QC

8 licensed childcare providers, regulated by the MFA (Quebec).

8licensed providersMFA register
5publish hours
7with five or more reviews

L'Île-Bizard has 8 licensed programmes. 7 carry a public Google rating with five or more reviews. 5 publish their hours.

How to get on a waitlist in L'Île-Bizard

Licensed child care in Québec is applied for through the child care registration portal (Portail d'inscription aux services de garde).

  1. Create your family file (a government authentication account is required).
  2. Once your child is born, create their file and confirm their identity within 90 days (registration isn't possible before birth).
  3. Add your child to the waitlist of as many child care services as you want. After priority categories, your place counts from the start date you choose (or from the day you register, if that's later).
  4. Keep your file up to date; you usually have one to two days to accept an offered spot.

8 listings found

Daycare listings in L Ile Bizard

Daycare & Childcare in L Ile Bizard

8

Licensed centres

4.47★

Avg Google rating

3

Rated 4.5+

6

Ministère de la Famille Licensing

Four of the eight licensed daycares on L'Île-Bizard belong to a single operator. All eight are centres. Six carry enough reviews to average, and that average is 4.47, close to the Québec figure of 4.52 that MapleCub calculates across roughly eighteen hundred rated listings in the province. Age licensing is complete here. That is unusual anywhere in Canada, and it means the numbers on this page are reportable rather than inferred: seven of the eight are approved for infants, and all eight take toddlers and preschoolers, so a parent looking for a poupon place has real information to work from instead of a blank field.

🗓 Last updated: August 2026✓ Data verified against QC licensing records📊 Reviews from Google + parent submissions🏷 Reviewed by Kudzi K., Founder & Editor

What to know about childcare in L Ile Bizard

Le Petit Castel is that operator. Three of its four sites show an identical 4.0 across 21 reviews, which means one Google profile is being reported against several installations rather than three separate verdicts. Garderie le Berceau Enchanté holds a 5.0 across 26, the deepest independent review base on the island.

This is a Montréal borough, not a separate municipality. L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève sits at the northwest corner of the island and connects to Pierrefonds by a single bridge, which is the whole story of child care here, because a congested or closed bridge turns a five-minute drop-off into a forty-minute one and there is no second route to fall back on.

Licensed capacity runs from 21 places to 90. Centre Éducatif à Ciel Ouvert and CPE la Campamuse have no public rating yet. The Petit Castel group's four sites hold roughly 290 of the 531 licensed places listed on this page, so a single operator controls more than half the supply on the island, and a bad experience with that operator narrows your remaining options sharply.

Ask about the waiting list registry. The Portail d'inscription aux services de garde is the provincial system, and a garderie that tells you to register there is following the rules rather than brushing you off.

Parents also ask

How many daycares are on L'Île-Bizard?

How much does a subsidised place cost?

Do they take infants?

How do I get on a waiting list?

Is one operator dominant?

Tips for choosing childcare in L Ile Bizard

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 on L'Île-Bizard?

Eight licensed centres. Four of them belong to Le Petit Castel.

How much does a subsidised place cost?

$9.65 a day, set by the Ministère de la Famille rather than by each garderie.

Do they take infants?

Seven of the eight are licensed for infants, and all eight take toddlers and preschoolers. Age licensing is fully recorded here, which is unusual.

How do I get on a waiting list?

Through the Portail d'inscription aux services de garde, the provincial registry. A garderie that directs you there is following the rules.

Is one operator dominant?

Yes. Le Petit Castel's four sites hold roughly 290 of the 531 licensed places listed on this page.

How many daycares in L Ile Bizard publish their opening hours?

5 of the 8 licensed programmes MapleCub has on file in L Ile Bizard publish their hours. The rest have not listed opening and closing times, so call to confirm.

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