8 licensed daycares in Sainte Therese, QC

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

8licensed providersMFA register
4publish hours
6with five or more reviews

Sainte-Thérèse has 8 licensed programmes. 6 carry a public Google rating with five or more reviews. 4 publish their hours.

How to get on a waitlist in Sainte-Thérèse

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 Sainte Therese

Daycare & Childcare in Sainte Therese

8

Licensed centres

4.63★

Avg Google rating

3

Rated 4.5+

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Ministère de la Famille Licensing

All eight licensed centres in Sainte-Thérèse are approved for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. That is rare enough to be worth stating plainly, and it makes this one of the easier towns in the province to search when the child you are placing is still a poupon. The eight hold 537 licensed places between them. Four have enough reviews to average, at 4.63. Garderie les Anges de Ste-Thérèse carries 63 reviews at 4.6, the deepest feedback base of any listing across this batch of pages, and a number built on sixty-three families tells you far more than a perfect score built on three ever will.

🗓 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 Sainte Therese

Sainte-Thérèse anchors the Thérèse-De Blainville MRC, twenty-odd kilometres north of Montréal. Commuter volume shapes demand. A place near the train station behaves very differently from one out on the Blainville edge, and the eight listings on this page are not interchangeable simply because they share a postal town and a page heading.

One listing is a Marie Quat'Poches installation in Blainville filed under a Sainte-Thérèse address. Check the address. Boundary slips like that are common in the provincial registry, and fifteen minutes in the wrong direction on a weekday morning is the sort of detail that decides whether a place works for your household at all.

CPE Fanfan Soleil runs two installations, Ducharme and St-Louis, at 80 places each. CPE Marie Quat'Poches runs two more. So four of the eight listings belong to two non-profit CPE networks, and the private garderies account for the other half, which is roughly the split you would expect in the Laurentian suburbs.

Garderie Éducative Haut Comme 3 Pommes holds a 5.0 across thirteen reviews. Garderie la Gare des Merveilles sits at 4.4 across fourteen. Those two have almost identical sample sizes and clearly different results, which is more informative than either figure read on its own.

Subsidised places cost $9.65 a day, set by the Ministère de la Famille rather than by each centre. Registration runs through the Portail d'inscription aux services de garde.

Parents also ask

How many daycares are in Sainte-Thérèse?

Do they take infants?

Which has the most reviews?

Are the listings all actually in Sainte-Thérèse?

Are CPEs or private garderies more common here?

What will it cost?

Tips for choosing childcare in Sainte Therese

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 Sainte-Thérèse?

Eight licensed centres holding 537 places.

Do they take infants?

All eight are licensed for infants, toddlers and preschoolers, which is rare.

Which has the most reviews?

Garderie les Anges de Ste-Thérèse, with 63 reviews at 4.6.

Are the listings all actually in Sainte-Thérèse?

Not quite. One Marie Quat'Poches installation in Blainville is filed under a Sainte-Thérèse address. Check the map before a tour.

Are CPEs or private garderies more common here?

It splits evenly. Two CPE networks account for four listings and private garderies for the other four.

What will it cost?

$9.65 a day at subsidised places. Register through the Portail d'inscription aux services de garde.

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