Montreal Daily's Businesses directory is a free, growing list of local businesses across every borough of the city, restaurants, dentists, florists, mechanics, accountants, real estate agents, and dozens of other trades, all organized in one place.
Instead of digging through an outdated online directory or a search engine result that leads to a dead phone number, you get an address, hours, live open or closed status, and a map for each listing.
Whether you're comparing plumbers in Rosemont or looking for a dentist open on Saturday in Verdun, this is meant to be the fastest way to find someone real, nearby, and reachable.
It sits alongside Montreal Daily's existing free classifieds, Housing, Jobs, Services, and Marketplace, as a place built specifically for local businesses rather than one-off posts.
What You'll Find Here
The directory is split into 24 categories that cover the kinds of businesses people actually search for in Montreal: restaurants, cafes and bakeries, bars and nightlife, auto repair, dentists, accountants, real estate agents, florists, hair salons, contractors, lawyers, veterinarians, and more.
Each category page shows a grid of live listings for that trade, and every listing carries the same core details: full address, phone number, website if the business has one, hours for each day of the week with a live indicator showing whether the place is open right now, and an embedded map.
Browse a category page for Le Plateau or Villeray and you'll see the mix you'd expect walking those streets, a corner dep next to a physiotherapy clinic next to a family-run bakery. Some listings carry a Verified Owner badge, which means the business owner claimed the listing themselves and confirmed the details are current.
Others are marked Added by Montreal Daily, Unclaimed, which means we pulled the basic public information, address, phone, hours, from public sources like Google Places to get the directory started, and the real owner hasn't stepped in to claim it yet.
The goal is coverage first, so even a business that hasn't claimed its listing still shows up with usable information rather than being left out of the directory entirely. As more owners claim their listings, the share of Verified Owner badges across each category keeps climbing, and that's by design.
Why List Your Business on Montreal Daily
If you run a business anywhere in Montreal, from Ahuntsic to LaSalle to NDG, a listing here costs nothing and takes a few minutes. This isn't a pay-to-play directory or a booking platform that skims a commission off every customer you get through it.
It's a straightforward listing, built for neighbours to find you, and it works the same whether you're a home-based bookkeeper or a restaurant with a storefront on a busy corner.
- It's completely free to list or claim, no fees, no commission, ever, whether you're a one-person operation or a company with a storefront and a warehouse.
- You reach people actively searching by borough for exactly what you do, not a general audience scrolling past an ad.
- Your hours, phone number, and address are current and controlled by you, instead of a stale entry from a directory nobody's updated in years.
- Claiming your listing adds the Verified Owner badge, which tells anyone browsing that the information came from you and is accurate.
Claiming or Adding Your Listing
If your business is already on Montreal Daily, it's likely one of the ones we added from public records and marked Unclaimed. Search for your business name in the relevant category, click claim, and confirm you're the owner. It takes a couple of minutes and immediately gives you edit access plus the Verified Owner badge.
If you don't see your business listed anywhere, adding it yourself is just as quick. Pick the category that fits, fill in your address, phone, hours, and a bit about what you do, and it goes live as a Verified Owner listing right away, no waiting on approval from a public data source.
Either path ends in the same place: a listing you control, with a badge that tells anyone browsing the details are current and confirmed by the owner.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. There's no listing fee, no monthly charge, and no commission on anything that comes from a customer finding you through the directory. This is meant to work the same way our Housing, Jobs, Services, and Marketplace classifieds sections already work for Montrealers, free to use on both sides.
Find your listing in its category page, click the claim button on the listing, and verify that you're the owner. Once that's confirmed, the listing moves to your account, you get full edit access, and the Unclaimed tag is replaced with a Verified Owner badge.
Some businesses weren't in the public data we started from, especially newer ones or those that don't have a strong online presence yet. In that case, add your business directly from the category page that fits it best. It goes live right away as a Verified Owner listing, with no unclaimed period at all.
Each listing belongs to the single category that best describes the core of what you do, since that keeps the directory useful for people browsing by trade rather than cluttered with duplicates. If your business genuinely spans two categories, for example a bakery that's also a small cafe, pick the one that best matches how customers usually look for you.
The categories reflect the kinds of businesses people in Montreal search for most often, from restaurants and auto repair to accountants and real estate agents. As the directory grows, categories can be added or split further if enough listings warrant it, so the structure isn't fixed in stone.
No. Every borough is covered, from the Plateau and Ville-Marie downtown to LaSalle, Rivière-des-Prairies, and everywhere between. The directory is organized so people can browse or search within a specific borough, which means a listing in Pierrefonds gets found by people looking there just as easily as a listing in the Plateau gets found by people looking there.