Gotta love this 4 bedroom house in Dorval, on sale now for a mere $389,000.... advertised as being only 20 minutes from Montreal. "Oh they're being conservative, I can get to Dorval from PVM in 12 minutes," you say. Oh but the trick is that you need a hovercraft, or boat or helicopter to get home to this place every night because no roads can take you there, and good luck trying to get there in the winter. What's more, Dorval Island, which was once by some miracle a serparate municipality in the old Montreal Urban Community, has no ferry in the winter and has no police, meaning that it's entirely ripe for pirate takeover. Once street gangs figure out how to get across that narrow bit of ice or water, this place is toast, I tell you, toast!
Looks great. I would need to stock up on light bulbs, canned goods, and used records (at MusiQuest, corner sources /40) in December. You can freeze milk BTW. Bacon too.
ReplyDeleteVacation Charlie.
Good for retirees? or millionaire recluse.
ReplyDeleteMakes you wonder about Heron Island and Goat Island on the other side of the Lachine Rapids.
ReplyDeleteThere are cottages there, too, which apparently cannot be sold by their current owners to anyone other than direct relatives or Hydro-Quebec (which I once read legally owns those islands).
Presumably, those cottages are only occupied during the milder months when they are accessible by boat.
Must be a very quiet place to live
--an ideal place to potentially conduct illicit and questionable activities, dread the thought!
Anyone reading this blog know anyone who lives there, now or in the past?
Not sure just anyone can go for a visit unless you're invited, either. Mysterious place right on our back door!
Used to camp on Dixie Island & sneek over to Dorval Island to get firewood after dark in my canoe....
ReplyDeleteI grew up in Dorval, and from what I remember all the houses in Dorval island were only for summer use and the island is closed in the winter. Anyway, having been there it is kind of cool sitting on a porch of old cottage feeling like you are way out of the city...until a screaming jet lands/takes off overheard from/to Pierre Trudeau! Dorval is a steal on the land side, compared to DDO, Pierrefonds etc. which are full of overpriced homes & try to get downtown easily from those places. But all burbs in the Waste Island dull as flatbread though... Anon exiled from Dorval :)
ReplyDeleteUsed to have acquaintances on Dorval Island. One owned a big house, one rented a smaller one. Went to a few parties there in the 70s. Had to get through a guard on the pier who checked IDs (I guess he doubled as the captain of the boat) but afterwards all was well.
ReplyDeleteIn the mid-50s, the Island had an official population - as a separate municipality - of 17. Later dropped down to 2.
There was one vehicle ont he island, a pick-up truck which could bring your appliances and heavy groceries to your house.
I got lost once and ended up on Dorval is
ReplyDeleteAnd ended up getting arrested 😢
I used to live on the island had a corner cottage, almost drowned as a kid floating on a wooden raft to a tiny adjacent island, we only went in the summer time, and nobody ever asked for id to get on the ferry. we sold it for a measly $16,000:)
ReplyDeletei seadood there once and walked around, saw a lot of interesting things, cant say
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