Our Campus
Our compact campus is located right in the heart of Sainte-Foy.
Location
Our building is located at 790 avenue Nérée-Tremblay, just north of the Innovation Centre, commonly known as the Pyramid. We’re at the corner of Nicolas-Pinel and Nérée-Tremblay, close to Cégep de Sainte-Foy and Laval University.
Our Facilities
Parking
Students who wish to drive to the college must find a parking space on their own. There is limited parking around the college. Here are a few areas that may rent spaces:
Université Laval: https://www.sc.ulaval.ca/stationnement
Pavillon Montcalm: (418) 656-0553
Cimetière Belmont: (418) 688-0566
It is strongly recommended to begin looking for a parking space in April or May at the latest for the following semester. Parking spaces are difficult to find once school has begun.
Students may also rent by the hour or for a daily rate at various apartment complexes around the college. Never park in the lots at the Pyramide, as your car will be towed. Please note that if you park at the Pavillon Montcalm without a parking pass, your car will also be towed.
Our Beehive
St. Lawrence College is proud to be home to a colony of honeybees, which lives on our roof. This is an ongoing partnership with urban beekeeping organization Alvéole, which has similar hives all over Canada. You can visit their website to learn more about their work, and about their social and environmental mission.
At St. Lawrence we have one colony (one hive), which changes in number from about 50,000 bees in the height of summer to as few as 10,000 after a long winter. The bees thrive on the lovely flowers in the green spaces surrounding the college. We have been home to bees for several years now, and the present colony arrived at the college in April of 2022.
Alvéole visits about once a month over the summer to check up on the bees, usually on a Monday morning. Keep your eyes peeled for posts on our Facebook and Instagram announcing each visit. While it is not possible for students to visit the hives due to their location on the roof of the college, you can follow along on the beekeeping journey on Alvéole’s own social site, Ma Ruche | My Hive (posts in French only).
Fun bee facts
- To produce 1kg of honey, the bees must fly the equivalent of 4 times the circumference of the earth and visit up to 4,000,000 flowers, all found within 5 km of their hive.
- The Queen Bee lays thousands of eggs per day.
- Worker bees have a lifespan of 3 weeks to 6 months (depending on time of year), but the Queen can live up to 5 years.
- The bees keep their hive at an internal temperature of 35 degrees C by forming a cluster and using their wing muscles. Our hive is additionally wrapped up in the winter to make this task easier for the bees. Maintaining this temperature can be tough over the long winter months, especially as bee numbers decline in winter. Sometimes this means the hive dies, which happened to ours over the winter of 2021-2022.
- In spring of 2022, our existing queen left the hive with about half the bees, in a process known as “swarming”, where a hive splits in two. Because of this, the current queen was born and raised in our own hive.
For more info, please read the Fact Book provided by Alvéole.