Movers · Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Haut-Richelieu
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu Movers
On Both Banks of the River
A Montreal moving crew for Saint-Jean, Iberville, Saint-Luc and L'Acadie, with the downtown meter, the snow rule and the two Compo écocentres explained before the truck crosses the Gouin bridge.
Règlements 1275, 1885 and 0278
Does a moving truck need a permit in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu?
No. Règlement 1275 lets a truck stand on the street to load or unload goods, which is what a move is. What does need paper is a container or anything left on the pavement, under Règlement 1885. Downtown, the meter runs out at three hours; in winter, the plow decides where the truck can sleep.
Three hours at a Vieux-Saint-Jean meter
30-minute minimum, 3-hour maximum, $0.50 per half hour, 9 h to 18 h Sunday to Wednesday and until 21 h Thursday to Saturday. A downtown move is scheduled so the truck works the load inside that window, or from a side street without a meter.
Flashing red means no parking tonight
November 1 to April 30, night parking is allowed unless a snow operation is declared; then it is banned 23 h to 6 h citywide and 3 h to 6 h downtown until the City calls it finished. Status from 17 h: text NEIGE to 22100, call 450 357-2020, or look for the flashing signs. $50 ticket, $103 tow.
Containers: written authorization, article 14
Règlement 1885 covers any occupation of the public domain that is not a parked vehicle. A container, a dumpster or a pile of material needs a written request to the Service des travaux publics, a plan of the space and proof of liability insurance. The truck needs none of it.
Truck-restricted streets, local delivery excepted
Règlement 0278 bans heavy trucks from listed streets such as 1re Avenue east of boulevard d'Iberville. The plates under the signs exempt local delivery, meaning picking up or delivering goods at an address on that street. A move is a local delivery.
875 km of streets, one walkway that matters
The City plows 875 km of road and 273 km of sidewalk; the twenty metres between your door and the truck are yours. Shovel and salt them before the crew arrives, and keep driveway snow out of the street.
Your part the night before
Check the 17 h snow status, move your own car off the curb the truck will use, and if the building has a dock or freight elevator, get the slot confirmed in writing. Downtown, tell us the exact block so the truck's position and the meter zone are decided before the day.
Official sources: winter night parking · is parking allowed tonight · downtown parking and meters · Règlement 1885, occupation of the public domain (PDF) · Règlement 1275, traffic and parking (PDF) · Heading to the island? Montreal's curb works on a reserved-space permit, explained in the moving-truck permit guide; the cold-weather playbook is the winter moving guide.
Five towns since 2001
Which bank of the Richelieu are you moving to?
Just over 100,000 people, the second-largest city in the Montérégie, assembled in 2001 from Saint-Jean, Iberville, Saint-Luc, L'Acadie and Saint-Athanase. The census counts 21,500 detached houses against 15,800 low-rise apartments, 60% owners, and close to 11,000 people who arrived within the last year. The river splits the crew's day in two.
| Sector | Bank | What the crew finds |
|---|---|---|
| Vieux-Saint-Jean | West | Apartments above shops, meters, vignette zones, the 3 h to 6 h downtown winter ban. Truck position fixed in advance; blankets on every interior rail. |
| Saint-Luc | West | Closest to the A-35 and Montreal, so it grew: new subdivisions, strips along boulevard Saint-Luc, the Gaudette écocentre. Freight-elevator slots are becoming part of a normal quote as 1,500 units come online. |
| L'Acadie | West | Rural along its own river, heritage farmhouses, new projects at the edge. Driveway loads and long lanes. |
| Iberville | East | Across the Gouin bridge: the Vieux-Iberville heritage quarter, narrow doors in old houses, an industrial park, the Lucien-Beaudin écocentre. |
| Saint-Athanase | East | A former farm parish turned residential: big lots, quiet streets, detached houses that load fast. |
The Garrison and the Royal Military College
More than 7,000 recruits and hundreds of staff pass through every year, and their postings land in the same summer weeks as everybody else's leases. On military orders, give us the report date and the crew works backward from it.
Leaving the Haut-Richelieu? The same crew and rate card cover Montreal over the Champlain bridge, the South Shore, Laval and Saint-Hyacinthe; past Greater Montreal, the long distance team keeps one crew with the load. Everywhere we go is on movers by city.
The price
What do movers charge in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu?
$125 an hour for two movers and a truck, $150 an hour for three, a 3-hour minimum, and 2 hours of transport for the round trip down the A-35 from Montreal, printed on the quote before you sign. No bridge fee, no fuel line, no mileage. A move from Saint-Jean to Montreal, the South Shore or Laval is quoted the same way.
Where the hours go in Saint-Jean
A downtown walk-up where the truck ends up around the corner, an Iberville house with an interior staircase and a 32-inch door, a piano, a basement that flooded in 2011 and has stored everything upstairs since, or a garage nobody packed. Each one is hours, and hours are the only thing on the invoice. The calculator gives you a number from your floors and crew size; the pricing guide lists what rides on every truck: blankets, mattress covers, dollies, straps and double coverage insurance.
Compo-Haut-Richelieu
Which Saint-Jean écocentre is open today, and what goes to the curb?
Two écocentres, one per bank, closed on different days. Iberville, 825 rue Lucien-Beaudin, is closed Wednesday and Thursday; Saint-Luc, 950 rue Gaudette, is closed Monday. Bulky pickup is monthly on the armchair date of your calendar and takes mattresses and sofas but not appliances, wood furniture or TVs. Fridges and metal get a free on-call pickup at 450 347-0299.
The two écocentres
Iberville: Monday, Tuesday, Friday 8 h to 16 h, Saturday 9 h to 16 h. Saint-Luc: Tuesday to Friday 8 h to 16 h, Saturday 9 h to 16 h. Unloading must be finished by closing. Driver's licence at the gate; new owners without a tax bill bring the notarized deed. Mattresses, sofas, appliances, metal and electronics: free and unlimited. Wood, gypsum, concrete and non-upholstered furniture: 3 free loads of 75 cubic feet a year. Debit or credit only.
The armchair date
Once a month. Five units or fewer: no booking, curb before 7 h, pickup can run until 19 h. Six units or more: call ahead. Taken: mattresses, box springs, sofas, armchairs, office chairs, tarps, cut carpet. Left behind: appliances, wood furniture, TVs, toilets, construction material. Fridges, water heaters and metal: free on-call pickup, set beside the house, not at the curb.
Or it rides with the move
When the armchair date is three weeks off and the écocentre is closed the day you need it, the old sofa, the dead fridge and the garage pile go on the same truck as the rest, sorted for donation and recycling on the way. A cleanout without a move is on the junk removal page. Garage sale first? The City needs a vente-débarras permit.
Official sources: Compo-Haut-Richelieu écocentres · what to bring and free limits · bulky items and special collections · collection calendar by address · garage sale permit
Report dates and closing dates
Storage when the posting and the keys do not line up
New builds in Saint-Luc and L'Acadie slip. A posting at the Garrison comes with a report date that was never checked against a notary's calendar. Leases end July 1 regardless. Rather than rent a unit in Saint-Jean and pay two crews to move everything twice, we load once, keep it in our monitored Montreal warehouse for a week or a season, and deliver when the address is real. One crew, one inventory, one invoice. The billing is on the warehousing and storage page.
After the truck leaves
Six Saint-Jean addresses to change, and the one bin you cannot take
Seven agencies, one form
The Service québécois de changement d'adresse covers RAMQ, SAAQ, Revenu Québec, Retraite Québec and three more in one pass.Hydro-Québec, free online
Transfer in the customer space before the move; by phone it adds $25 plus tax to the first bill.Blue and brown bins stay
Recycling and compost bins carry a serial number tied to the civic address. The garbage bin is the owner's. Missing or broken: Compo bins and containers.Welcome tax, one to three months later
Transfer duties run 3% above $500,000 in 2026 and come as a separate bill after registration; annual taxes in four instalments. Taxes in Saint-Jean.Carte citoyen
Free, valid two years, opens the four libraries and online recreation sign-up. One proof of residence under 12 months old. Get the card.Schools and the new-citizen hub
CSS des Hautes-Rivières by address, Riverside School Board for English, and the City's new citizen page for the rest.Canada Post forwarding for the mail, and if you are near the Richelieu, text CRUE to 22100 for the City's flood alerts.
Our own crew, both directions
Why Saint-Jean households book a Lachine-based crew
Because most of them are going to, or coming from, the island. AKA Moving has run its own trucks and trained movers from 10500 Côte-de-Liesse in Lachine since 2019; nothing is brokered, the crew that quotes is the crew that shows up, and double coverage insurance through Northbridge is on every job. On July 1 we staff with our own people and do not overbook. The licensing and the people are on the about page.
AKA Moving
Questions
What people in Saint-Jean ask before booking
Q Can the truck stay at a downtown meter for the whole move?
The Vieux-Saint-Jean meters cap at three hours, so a longer downtown move is planned around it: the truck loads from a meter-free side street, or the crew sequences the heaviest items into the metered window. Loading itself is legal under Règlement 1275; only the meter time is limited. Tell us the exact address and the position is settled before the day.
Q We are posted to the Garrison and report in August. How does that work with a lease?
Give us the report date and the lease date and we schedule from the later of the two. If the new address in Saint-Jean is not ready, the load is held in our Montreal warehouse under one inventory and delivered when it is. Military postings land in the same weeks as July 1, so four to eight weeks' notice is the safe window.
Q The écocentre is closed the day we move. What happens to the old fridge?
Two options. Compo offers a free on-call pickup for fridges, water heaters and metal at 450 347-0299, set beside the house rather than at the curb. Or it goes on our truck with the rest and is dropped for recycling. It cannot go to the curb on the monthly bulky date; appliances are refused there.
Q Is there a truck ban on 1re Avenue in Iberville?
Règlement 0278 restricts heavy trucks on listed streets, including 1re Avenue east of boulevard d'Iberville, but the sign plates exempt local delivery, which covers picking up or delivering goods at an address on that street. A moving truck going to a house on 1re Avenue is a local delivery and may use it.
Q Does the quote change if we move from Saint-Jean to Montreal rather than within the city?
No. The rate is $125 an hour for two movers or $150 for three, with 2 hours of transport, whether the second address is in Iberville, Longueuil or the Plateau. The hours of work change with the stairs and the volume, not with the direction. Beyond Greater Montreal, the long distance team quotes a fixed price instead.
Q What proof does the Iberville écocentre ask for if we just bought the house?
A driver's licence showing the Saint-Jean address, or, for a new owner whose tax bill has not arrived, the notarized deed. Both écocentres take debit or credit only, and unloading has to be finished by closing time, 16 h on weekdays and Saturdays.
Q Which bins come with us to the new house?
None of the City ones. The blue recycling bin and the brown compost bin carry a serial number tied to the civic address and must stay. The grey garbage bin belongs to the owner and goes with an owner who moves. A missing bin at the new address is requested from Compo-Haut-Richelieu.
A Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu quote with the transport already on it
Sector, bank of the river, floors, and the date. The hours are in writing before you sign, no hidden fees.
