
Centre de la Petite Enfance les Copains d'Abord - Installation McMasterville 1
149, rue du Purvis Club, McMasterville, QC
Open until 18:00
Capacity 54Ages infant to preschool
5.0 from 6 Google reviews
5 licensed childcare providers, regulated by the MFA (Quebec).
McMasterville has 5 licensed programmes. 4 carry a public Google rating with five or more reviews. 4 publish their hours.
Licensed child care in Québec is applied for through the child care registration portal (Portail d'inscription aux services de garde).
5 listings found

149, rue du Purvis Club, McMasterville, QC
Open until 18:00
Capacity 54Ages infant to preschool
5.0 from 6 Google reviews

151, rue du Purvis Club, McMasterville, QC
Open until 18:00
Capacity 45Ages infant to preschool
5.0 from 6 Google reviews

155, rue du Purvis Club, McMasterville, QC
Open until 18:00
Capacity 55Ages infant to preschool
5.0 from 6 Google reviews

759, boulevard Constable, McMasterville, QC
Open until 17:45
Capacity 66Ages infant to preschool
4.7 from 23 Google reviews
300, rue des Camélias, McMasterville, QC
Hours not listed
Capacity 80Ages infant to preschool
No rating on file
5
Licensed centres
4.93★
Avg Google rating
4
Rated 4.5+
4
Ministère de la Famille Licensing
Forty Google reviews sit behind McMasterville's five services, and more than half of them belong to one address: Garderie le Petit Sport on boulevard Constable, rated 4.7 from twenty-two reviews. For a municipality of this size that is a substantial evidence base. The other four are the three installations of CPE les Copains d'Abord on rue du Purvis Club, each showing 5.0 from six reviews, and CPE les Frimousses de la Vallée on rue des Camélias, which has none. The town average works out to 4.93 across the four rated services, well above the Quebec figure of 4.52.
Read that 4.93 carefully, because three of the four scores behind it come from the same operator. CPE les Copains d'Abord runs installations 1, 2 and 3 on the same street, and each carries an identical 5.0 from six reviews, which almost certainly reflects one organization's reputation counted three times rather than three independent verdicts, and averaging them alongside a single garderie's twenty-two reviews gives the CPE three times the weight it should have. The honest reading is simpler. One well-reviewed CPE. One well-reviewed garderie. One service nobody has written about.
Le Petit Sport is the one service in town without subsidized places. The other four charge Quebec's reduced contribution, so the practical question is whether a market daily rate at the most-reviewed service in McMasterville is worth it, and the answer depends on income: Quebec's refundable tax credit for child care expenses returns a percentage of what you pay, rising as family income falls, with advance payments available through the year. Run the calculation. Revenu Québec publishes the table annually. It moves.
Three installations of one CPE on a single street is an unusual configuration. It usually means a shared admissions list and shared policies across the three, which is worth confirming before you file three applications, and it also means a strike or a closure at that operator removes three of your five options simultaneously. Ask whether the list is pooled. The answer changes both your paperwork and your risk.
All five are licensed for poupons, trottineurs and preschoolers, drawn from ministère de la Famille permits rather than estimated. McMasterville sits in the Vallée-du-Richelieu next to Beloeil and Mont-Saint-Hilaire, both a few minutes away and both larger, so a search that stops at the municipal boundary here is leaving obvious options on the table.
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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.
How many daycares are in McMasterville?
Five licensed services run by three operators. CPE les Copains d'Abord holds three installations on rue du Purvis Club.
Which McMasterville daycare has the most reviews?
Garderie le Petit Sport, with twenty-two Google reviews and a 4.7 rating. That is more than half of all reviews in the municipality.
Is Garderie le Petit Sport subsidized?
No. It is the one service in McMasterville without subsidized places, so it charges its own daily rate. Quebec's refundable child care tax credit reimburses part of what you pay.
Why is the McMasterville average rating so high?
It works out to 4.93, but three of the four rated services are installations of the same CPE, each with an identical 5.0 from six reviews. That weights one operator's reputation three times.
Should I also look in Beloeil?
Beloeil and Mont-Saint-Hilaire are both minutes away and both larger. Treating the Vallée-du-Richelieu as one search area makes more sense than stopping at the municipal line.
How many daycares in Mcmasterville publish their opening hours?
4 of the 5 licensed programmes MapleCub has on file in Mcmasterville publish their hours. The rest have not listed opening and closing times, so call to confirm.
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