About one hour and fifteen minutes driving time northwest of Montreal along the Autoroute des Laurentides and Highway 117 and two hours east of Ottawa on Autoroute 50 and Highways 148 and 327, within the Municipality of St. Faustin-Lac-Carré, in Quebec, in an area known as the upper Laurentian Mountains. The nearest centers are Ville Mont-Tremblant (15 minutes north) and Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, (15 minutes south).
Valdurn was originally the private Country Estate of the Durnford family of Montreal. The Durnford Family held the land for about 100 years as a forest preserve. Except for three scattered family home-steads, the land remained basically as they found it.
In 1971, the family sold their Estate to the Valdurn Realty Company. The principal condition imposed by the vendors on the developer was that property was to be used for residential and private recreational purposes only, in a peaceful, clean and natural environment.
As a result of the family’s love of the land, the Estate was spared the ravages of farming, logging and commercial-recreational development all too commonly inflicted on other areas of Eastern North America’s upland regions.
There are four lakes wholly and three others partially contained within the boundaries of Valdurn. The lakes are deep and clear and being on or near the height of land, some are self-generating or “spring- fed”.
The elevation of the lakes range from between 396 and 410 meters (1250’-1300’) above mean sea level (MSL). The hills rise above the lakes to about 500 meters (1600’) above MSL.
Valdurn’s lakes are for the use of residents and their guests only. No internal combustion motorized watercraft are permitted on any lake in Valdurn.
To protect our lakes against aquatic invasive species, non residents of Valdurn are prohibited from putting any personal watercraft, fishing gear or other equipment into any lake in Valdurn.
Valdurn is a nature preserve. It remains for the most part cloaked in old-growth forest, deciduous on the high ground and coniferous in the valleys and along the shoreline of the lakes. A vast array of bird species can be seen, including herons, loons, ducks, hawks, and owls to name a few. Deer, fox, rabbit, muskrat, otter and many more wild animals are often spotted on walks or even from windows.
There are about 125 resident owners in Valdurn. The majority of owners hail from Quebec and Ontario. But Valdurn has resident owners from as far west in Canada as British Columbia and from several of the United States and Europe.
