How this table is built and where its facts come from

Where the facts come from

We read a place's own website and note what it offers children: ages, weekly times, costs with their period, languages, trial classes and whether an adult has to stay.

The address, map point and opening hours may also come from its Google Maps listing, and membership in a federation from the club list that federation publishes. A place with no website of its own may be listed from its Google listing alone, when the listing itself says it is for children; its page then gives only the address and opening hours.

Each fact is kept with the address of its page, the day it was read and a short quote in that page's own words. Directories, news stories, registration platforms, social networks and reviews never count as sources.

Source marks

There are three marks. Published by the place: its own website. Google listing: its Google Maps listing. Federation list: a sports federation's list of clubs.

Each fact on a place's page carries its mark and date, so you can tell who said it and how long ago.

When a fact is missing

When the pages we read leave a fact out, the place's page says not published and the table shows a dash. That speaks only of those pages, not of the place.

Nothing is guessed. A school year, such as third grade, never turns into an age. A cost keeps the period the place gives it, and the one sum we do is the per-class cost marked ≈: the price of a package or a whole program divided by its classes.

Dates, schedules and opening hours

Two columns deal with time. Dates and times: the days and hours of a class, an afternoon of care or a day of camp, as the place gives them, with the dates of a day camp. Opening hours: when the address is open, often from its Google listing.

An address can be open with no class for a given age at that hour. A row with opening hours alone goes below the line, under a heading that says why.

The after-school pages look at Monday to Friday, from 15:30 to 18:00. School lets out around half past three, and the stretch runs to the hour many parents arrive. A class counts if one of its groups starts within it; care counts if its hours cover all of it.

What we do not judge

Nobody gets a score or a rank: no place, no teacher, no coach.
No one from this site visits the places; each fact has a published source.
We offer no opinion on how well anyone teaches, coaches or cares.
We cannot tell whether spots remain; ask the place.
We do not check permits, insurance or staff backgrounds.
Costs are shown as published, with period and date, unconfirmed by the place.

Right of reply

If you run a place on the list and a fact is wrong, incomplete or out of date, send the right one through the form, with a link to the page that shows it.

Once the place's own pages back it up, the fix goes into the next update and into the list of changes. A place that closes keeps its page, marked closed, and leaves every table.

You can also ask for a place you run to be removed: choose “Remove a place from the list” in the form and leave a way to confirm that you run it. Within a month the place, its page and its rows in the data files are gone.

Dates and updates

A place's sources are read again within 6 months of the last reading. A cost for a period now over stays on the place's page with that period, but the filters and the summary line leave it out.

How it is funded

Being listed costs nothing, and no payment changes a row or its place in the table.

A place's page may carry a link to Zartrace, a service affiliated with this directory and labelled as such. Clicks on contact buttons are counted as totals, with no personal information.

Open data

You can download the whole directory as JSON, one record per place, or as CSV, one row per program. Both hold the sources, marks and dates, and both state their licence.

Areas, distance and the map

The areas are the boroughs and towns families name: Montreal's boroughs, the towns on the island, six sectors of Laval, two of Longueuil, then Brossard and Saint-Lambert. The smallest go with a neighbour: L'Île-Bizard with Pierrefonds, Hampstead and Montreal West with Côte Saint-Luc. An address goes to the area whose boundary holds its point on the map; in Boucherville it stays filed under that name. The North Shore suburbs, Châteauguay and Vaudreuil are not covered.

Distance is a straight line from the point you pick to the nearest address, rounded to the half kilometre. Your location is requested only when you press the button, and it stays in your browser.