How Terrebonne's metal shops show up online
81%
We read the websites of 52 metal shops in Terrebonne, part of our study of 2,095 shops in 23 Canadian cities. Here is what they show buyers, and how Terrebonne compares.
What buyers in Terrebonne see
Terrebonne, Mascouche and Repentigny have some of the youngest shops in the study. Among those that give a year, the middle one started in 1997, and 39% started after 2001. They are the most likely to offer help with drawings (67%), 50% say they take small jobs, and 6 of 52 say how many people work there, more than in any other city. Certification is the gap: 81% show no ISO or CWB, one of the five highest shares.
The basics
Four basics, and how Terrebonne compares
- 81%show no ISO or CWB certificationAll 23 cities: 74% · 7 points higher · 5th highest of 23 cities
- 58%name none of their equipmentAll 23 cities: 54% · 4 points higher · tied 9th highest of 23 cities
- 89%Lowest of 23don't say how many people work thereAll 23 cities: 96% · 7 points lower · the lowest of 23 cities
- 40%don't say when they startedAll 23 cities: 49% · 9 points lower · 6th lowest of 23 cities
The oldest Terrebonne shop that gives a year started in 1956.
The shop map
Every one of Terrebonne's 52 shops, one dot each
Pick what the colours show.
Shows a certification: 10Shows none: 42
Names its equipment: 22Names none: 30
Gives its team size: 6Doesn't say: 46
Each dot is a listed shop with a website, moved a little (about 250 m) so no single shop can be picked out. The darker outline is Terrebonne. The others are its neighbouring municipalities.
What a buyer checks
A shop's spec sheet, the way most Terrebonne sites read it
A made-up Terrebonne shop. A line is struck through when most of the city's 52 sites leave it out.
Sample Fabricating, Terrebonne
Sample shop, not a real company
- Services
Fabrication, welding, laser cuttingOn nearly every site - Phone
555 010 0142Shown on 50 of 52 - Certification
CWB W47.1 · ISO 9001Missing on 42 of 52 - Equipment
4 kW fiber laser · 220 t press brake · 5 axis millMissing on 30 of 52 - Year started
Since 1989Shown on 31 of 52 - Team size
34 peopleMissing on 46 of 52 - Small jobs
One-offs welcomeShown on 26 of 52
How it compares
Where Terrebonne sits among the 23 cities
Each dot is one of the 23 cities. The dark line is all 23 cities together. Each row runs from the lowest city to the highest.
Show no ISO or CWB certification
60%85%
Name none of their equipment
34%73%
Don't say how many people work there
89%100%
Don't say when they started
33%60%
Don't say whether they take small jobs
31%77%
Close to home
Terrebonne and its neighbours
Laval 20 km · Montreal 25 km · Longueuil 30 km
| Measure | Terrebonne52 shops | Laval37 shops | Montreal170 shops | Longueuil108 shops |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No certification | 81% | 84% | 84% | 76% |
| No equipment | 58% | 60% | 55% | 58% |
| No team size | 89% | 97% | 95% | 94% |
| No year founded | 40% | 51% | 48% | 57% |
How long they have been at it
31 Terrebonne shops say when they started
- Middle year
- 1997
- tied 2nd youngest of 23 cities
- Started in 2001 or earlier
- 61%
- 2nd lowest of 23 cities
- Oldest year given
- 1956
The other 21 give no year. Plum: started in 2001 or earlier. Teal: since 2002.
What they show and what they do
Certifications and trades in Terrebonne
Certifications on their websites
| Group | Terrebonne | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| None of these | 81% | 74% | 5th |
| ISO only | 6% | 12% | tied 16th |
| CWB only | 10% | 12% | tied 13th |
| Both ISO and CWB | 4% | 3% | tied 5th |
ISO here means ISO 9001, AS9100 or ISO 13485. CWB means CWB W47.1 or W47.2. Rank 1 is the city with the biggest share.
The work they offer
| Work | Terrebonne | All 23 cities | Rank of 23 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metal fabrication | 71% | 69% | tied 11th |
| Welding | 54% | 49% | tied 7th |
| Sheet metal, cutting and bending | 48% | 40% | tied 3rd |
| Machining | 33% | 40% | tied 17th |
| Structural steel | 27% | 20% | 4th |
| Railings and stairs | 17% | 20% | 15th |
Shares of all the city's shops. A shop can do several kinds of work. Rank 1 is the city with the biggest share.
If the certificate isn't on the site, a buyer assumes there isn't one
Industry in Terrebonne
A few numbers on industry in Terrebonne
- 5,675manufacturing jobs in the MRC Les Moulins, 2021Source: La Revue, Terrebonne (figures from the Observatoire du Grand Montréal)
- 291manufacturing businesses in the MRC Les Moulins, 2021Source: La Revue, Terrebonne (figures from the Observatoire du Grand Montréal)
- $27.50/hrmedian machinist pay, QuebecSource: Job Bank, Government of Canada
From the city's page on Metal Shop Guide, each with its source.
For shop owners
In Terrebonne, add these three things first
In the order of the city's own gaps: what most sites here leave out first.
- 0189%of sites here don't show it
How many you are
Roughly how many people work there.
- 0281%of sites here don't show it
Your certifications, by name and standard
CWB W47.1 Division 2, ISO 9001:2015, AS9100D. Link the certificate.
- 0358%of sites here don't show it
Your equipment, with sizes
Make, model and the numbers that matter: bed size, tonnage, travel, axes, the thickest plate you cut.
Source
Where these numbers come from
For Terrebonne, Metal Shop Guide covers Terrebonne, Mascouche and Repentigny and lists 53 shops. 52 have a website of their own, and those are the shops we read, as of October 28, 2026. “Not shown” means we didn't find it on the pages we read. A blind check of 40 shops suggests each share is a few points high.
One shop is 2% of the Terrebonne total, so small gaps can be chance.
Cite this page: Figured Media, “How Terrebonne's metal shops show up online”, October 2026, with data from Metal Shop Guide. https://figuredmedia.com/research/metal-shops-online-2026/terrebonne/
Photo credits
- Terrebonne, at the top: Photo by Pierre Bona, CC BY-SA 3.0, edited (cropped)
- Shop floor, behind the quote: Photo by Christopher Burns, Unsplash License, edited (cropped)
Shop map: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census boundary files, Open Government Licence, Canada. Country map: Natural Earth, public domain.