Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), painter and sculptor, was born here.
Born in Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie Region of France, she was the fourth of six children born into the artistic family of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp.
In July 2010, Le Fontainebleau Golf Club hosted the Montreal Championship, a PGA Tour event.
The second specimen, a complete skull sent from the Seychelles by a M. Leduc in 1839, was named Ziphius seychellensis by the English zoologist John Edward Gray in 1846; the French scientist Paul Gervais later placed this specimen in the genus Dioplodon ("two-toothed").
Montreal Junior Hockey Club – A former team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2008 until 2011, who relocated and became the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada
We do know that he became a master woodcarver by 1812 and did extensive work in the church at Sainte-Thérèse-de-Blainville which included some carpentry, woodcarving, and gilding as well as the structure housing the altar, rood-loft, cornice, and vaulting of this building.