Bois-Franc is a residential neighbourhood located in the borough of Saint-Laurent

Saint-Laurent, Quebec

Saint-Laurent is a former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is now the largest in area of the boroughs of the city of Montreal....

 in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

. It was designed by architect Louis Sauer

Louis Sauer

Louis Sauer , FAIA, is an American architect and design theorist. In the 1960s and 1970s Sauer untypically worked with housing developers, producing low-rise high-density housing projects....

Transportation

Bois-Franc is bordered by three boulevards : Henri Bourassa

Henri Bourassa Boulevard

Henri Bourassa Boulevard is a major east-west street located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Situated in northern Montreal Island, it runs parallel to Gouin Boulevard. Spanning 29 kilometres in length, it links the borough of Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles in the east to Autoroute 13 in the...

 to the north, Marcel-Laurin

Quebec route 117

Route 117 is a provincial highway within the Canadian province of Quebec, running between Montreal and the Quebec/Ontario border where it continues as Highway 66 east of Kearns, Ontario...

 to the east and finally Thimens to the southwest. The Bois Franc

Bois-Franc (AMT)

Bois-Franc is a commuter rail station on the AMT Deux-Montagnes Line in the Greater Montreal, Quebec, Canada area. The Orange Line of the Montreal Metro was to have been extended to de Salaberry Street at the corner of Laurentian Boulevard, but that would have been too far away to have made an...

 train station is relatively close by.

History

Bois-Franc is built on land sold by Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier Aerospace is a division of Bombardier Inc. and is the third-largest airplane manufacturer in the world. It is headquartered in Dorval, Quebec, Canada.- History :...

 where the former Cartierville airport

Cartierville Airport

Cartierville Airport was an airport in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, now a borough of Montreal. The airport was decommissioned and turned into the Bois-Franc neighbourhood. It was located next to Route 117, and the terminal buildings were accessed via Boul...

used to be.