Movers · Terrebonne, Rive-Nord
Terrebonne Movers
Who Know the Streets
Local movers for Terrebonne, Lachenaie and La Plaine, with the City's parking, écocentre and bulky-pickup rules explained on one page.
The price
What does a move in Terrebonne cost?
From $125 an hour for two movers and a truck, $150 for three, with a 3-hour minimum and 1.5 hours of transport because Terrebonne sits across the rivière des Mille Îles from our base. The transport is on the written quote before you sign. No fuel fee, no bridge fee, no hidden fees.
What adds hours on a Terrebonne job
Where the truck can park
This is the big one. With the ramp at the door, a 4½ loads in 2 to 3 hours. With the truck around the corner in Vieux-Terrebonne because the curb was full, the same load runs 5 to 6, because every box walks. The parking section below is how you avoid it.
Stairs, elevators, pianos
An interior staircase on rue Saint-Louis, a freight elevator nobody booked in a Croisée urbaine condo, a piano, or a garage of unpacked boxes. Hours are the only thing you pay for, so these are the things to tell us about when you book. Run your own numbers on the cost calculator or read what every truck includes on the pricing guide.
Truck parking on moving day
Is a permit needed to park a moving truck in Terrebonne?
No. Terrebonne has no moving-day or moving-truck permit. The truck stops on your street wherever parking is normally allowed and loads from there. What trips people up is the 24-hour street limit, the winter night ban and the heritage-sector stall rule.
No permit, 24 hours maximum
By-law 3902 caps any vehicle at 24 hours on a public road, and trailers may never park on the street. A move that arrives, loads and leaves the same day is inside the rule.
Winter nights: banned unless the City says otherwise
November 15 to April 15, no street parking between midnight and 7 h unless the City authorizes it that night. The decision is posted daily from 16 h on the City map, the Stationnement Terrebonne app, or 450 961-2001. Permitted nights use the odd-address side.
Containers need a permit, trucks do not
A storage container or material left on the street falls under by-law 725, temporary occupation of the public domain: insurance proof, a site plan, and a fee. Apply at the Bureau des citoyens, 708 A boulevard des Seigneurs.
Vieux-Terrebonne parks by the stall
In part of the heritage sector, night parking is allowed only in marked stalls and motorcycles are banned. Public lots at 866 and 790 rue Saint-Pierre and 122 rue Saint-Joseph take the overflow on a move day.
Snow loading takes days
Terrebonne clears 630 km of streets: three days after 10 to 20 cm, six or more after 30 cm. Keep the hydrant clear by 1.5 m, and never push driveway snow into the street.
Your night-before checklist
In winter, check the parking status after 16 h. Tell your neighbours which side of the curb the truck needs. In a condo, confirm the elevator reservation and the loading-dock window with the building. Leave your own car off the street the truck will use.
Official sources: winter parking rules · tonight's parking status · traffic and parking by-law · temporary occupation permit · Moving within Montreal instead? The island has its own permit system, explained in the Montreal moving-truck permit guide.
The four sectors
Which part of Terrebonne are you moving to?
Terrebonne absorbed Lachenaie and La Plaine in 2001 and is now a city of about 126,000, where 62% of homes are detached houses, 21% are low-rise apartments and 14% are condos. In a typical year nearly 12,000 people change address here. Each sector gives a crew a different day.
Vieux-Terrebonne
A Quebec heritage site since May 2026: about 200 protected buildings between rue Saint-Louis, rue Saint-Joseph and the river. Bourgeois houses on Saint-Louis, modest homes in the Bas-de-la-Côte, interior staircases, and the stall-only parking above. The truck position gets planned before the crew arrives.
Terrebonne-Ouest, Urbanova and Alta Vista
The eco-district off the A-640. Detached, semi-detached and row houses in Alta Vista; denser blocks coming along boulevard Pierre-Dansereau. Driveways and garages make for fast loading; townhouse stairs and narrow hallways are the one slowdown.
Lachenaie and the Croisée urbaine
Riverfront along chemin Saint-Charles on one side, the transit district by the Gare de Terrebonne and Hôpital Pierre-Le Gardeur on the other, with condo towers and seniors' residences rising. Condo moves here mean a booked freight elevator and a dock slot. Send us the building's rule sheet and we work inside it.
La Plaine and Jardins d'Angora
Detached houses with garages, basements and sheds around boulevard Laurier, where the volume is the job rather than the access. Angora is adding about 3,500 units around a conservation park, and new-build closings cluster on the same dates, so those weeks book early.
Leaving Terrebonne? The same crew runs to Laval across the Pont Mathieu, into Montreal, and to the South Shore and West Island. Farther than that, our long distance team keeps one crew with your belongings to the destination. Every area we serve is on the movers by city page.
What is not coming with you
Where does Terrebonne's bulky waste go, and when?
Terrebonne runs no écocentre of its own. Residents use the Enviro Connexions déchetterie in Lachenaie, free five times a year with photo ID, or the Bois-des-Filion and Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines écocentres. Bulky items go to the curb once a month, on a Wednesday, by zone. Or the moving crew takes them in the same truck.
Déchetterie Enviro Connexions
3779 chemin des Quarante-Arpents, Lachenaie. Monday to Friday 8 h to 18 h without reservation; Saturday 7 h to 15 h 30 by appointment; closed Sunday. Five free drops a year up to 5 tonnes. Bring photo ID with your address, in your own name; a tax bill is not accepted. Takes mattresses, sofas, appliances, fridges, electronics, wood, gypsum, cabinets and tires. Refuses paint, propane and hazardous materials.
Monthly bulky pickup
Zones C on the first Wednesday, zones A on the second, zones B and D on the fourth. No booking. Out no more than 48 hours ahead, on your own frontage. Limits: 2 m³ per address, 90 kg and 1.5 m per item, liftable by two people. Mattresses of any size are taken; fridges, electronics, renovation debris, doors, windows and toilets are not.
Same truck, same day
If moving day does not fall on your Wednesday, the old fridge and the basement pile ride in the truck with everything else and get sorted for donation and recycling on the way out. For a cleanout on its own, see junk removal. Fridges and air conditioners can also be collected free by the City's GoRecycle partner.
Official sources: écocentres and containers · bulky item collection · your collection zone by address · free fridge and AC pickup · déchetterie hours and fees
Between two keys
Storage when the Urbanova closing slips past July 1
New-build dates in Urbanova and Angora move; leases do not. Rather than paying two crews to move everything twice through a rented locker, we load once, keep your belongings in our monitored Montreal warehouse for a week or a season, and deliver when the builder hands over. One inventory list, one invoice. The warehousing page has the details.
After the truck leaves
Terrebonne paperwork: six things, six official links
Quebec change of address
The SQCA form updates RAMQ, SAAQ, Revenu Québec, Retraite Québec and three more in one go. The SAAQ gives you 30 days.Hydro-Québec
Move the account in the customer space. Online it's free; by phone, $25.Carte Accès Terrebonne
Free, needed for libraries, leisure and the aquatic complex. Driver's licence at your address; a lease does not count. How to get it.Bins stay, zones change
Only City-issued bins are emptied. Look up collection days and snow zone by address; missing bins via the Bureau des citoyens, 450 961-2001.Taxes
The annual bill goes out in February; new owners request a copy and pay in up to five instalments. Taxes in Terrebonne.Schools and newcomers
New residents page; schools under the CSS des Affluents and CSS des Mille-Îles.Then Canada Post forwarding, and you are done.
The company behind the truck
The crew that quotes the move is the crew that shows up
AKA Moving has run its own trucks and crews out of 10500 Côte-de-Liesse in Lachine since 2019. No brokers, no day labour. Blankets, mattress covers, dollies, straps and floor protection ride on every truck, and double coverage insurance through Northbridge is included on every job. On July 1 we send our own trained movers and never overbook. Who we are, in detail, is on the about page.
AKA Moving
Questions
Questions people ask before a Terrebonne move
Q How much do movers charge in Terrebonne?
From $125 an hour for two movers and a truck, or $150 for three, with a 3-hour minimum plus 1.5 hours of transport for the trip over the bridge and back. A 4½ with the truck at the door usually takes four to five billed hours including transport; the same apartment with a long carry can take two to three more. Truck, fuel, equipment and double coverage insurance are included.
Q Can a moving truck park on the street overnight in Terrebonne in winter?
Only if the City authorizes street parking that night. From November 15 to April 15, parking is banned from midnight to 7 h unless the daily status, posted from 16 h, says it is allowed, in which case cars use the odd-address side. A moving truck does not stay overnight anyway; it arrives in the morning and leaves the same day, within the 24-hour limit that applies all year.
Q What ID does the Terrebonne écocentre ask for?
Government photo ID showing your Terrebonne address, such as a driver's licence, or photo ID plus a Hydro or telecom bill in the same name. A tax bill is not accepted, and the person named on the ID has to be the one at the gate. Terrebonne residents get five free visits a year, up to 5 tonnes, at the Enviro Connexions déchetterie in Lachenaie.
Q My bulky items are not on the right Wednesday. What now?
Three options. Hold them for the next monthly collection in your zone, drive them to the déchetterie on a free visit, or let the moving crew take them in the truck on moving day, sorted for donation and recycling. Fridges and air conditioners never go to the curb; the City's GoRecycle partner collects them free by appointment.
Q Is Vieux-Terrebonne harder to move in or out of?
Usually, yes. The heritage sector has narrow streets, interior staircases in older houses, and night parking by marked stall only on some streets, which means the truck position has to be planned rather than improvised. Budget an extra hour compared with a driveway house in La Plaine, and tell us which street so the crew arrives knowing where the truck goes.
Q My new build in Urbanova is not ready on July 1. Can you hold my things?
Yes. We load on your lease end date, store everything in our monitored warehouse in Montreal, and deliver to Urbanova or Angora when the builder gives you the keys, with the same inventory list from start to finish. One crew, one bill, no second company.
Q Do you also move from Terrebonne to Laval or downtown Montreal?
Every week. Laval is across the Pont Mathieu on the A-25 or over the Pont Sophie-Masson; downtown Montreal is the A-25 or A-640 to the A-40. The 1.5-hour transport on a Terrebonne quote covers either direction. Moves into Montreal's 19 boroughs follow the island's own curb rules, explained in our Montreal moving-truck permit guide.
Ready for a Terrebonne quote?
Give us the sector, the floors and the date. You get the hours in writing, transport included, before anything is booked.
