Explore Otterburn Park
Formerly a First Nations fur trading post, and part of the Saint-Hilaire parish, Otterburn Park seceded and became an amusement park for employees of the Grand Trunk Railway. As early as 1885, families from Montreal would come every weekend to Otterburn Park to enjoy the playgrounds, bandstands and dance halls. The river was also a vast recreational area, with a canoeing club. The site was officially named Otterburn Park with its own territory, separate from that of Saint-Hilaire, in 1953. Otterburn Park is the only municipality in the Richelieu Valley with an English name. The municipality was Anglophone to start with, but has slowly become more French-speaking. Located between the Richelieu River and the mountain, Otterburn Park developed over the years, and almost reached the boundaraies of its territory, offering a natural, rural and attractive setting for and by its residents. Today, they must decide on the future of the last agricultural lands.