[2] Located on the South Shore of Montreal, near the suburb of Boucherville, the park comprises a handful of islands dotted with wetlands, bike paths, kayak circuits, cross-country ski trails, and public golf courses.

Wildlife can be readily observed in all seasons, including the white-tailed deer, red fox, and the grey squirrel.

Since 1999, it has been administered by the Société des établissements de plein air du Québec (Sépaq), which manages several Quebec parks and wildlife refuges.

[5] In 1910, an amusement park named after the recently deceased King Edward opened up on Île Grosbois, only accessible by boat.

In the summer, it offered rides, kiosks, dance halls, a racetrack for horse racing, roller coasters, and carousels.

Amidst the ensuing conflict between real estate developers and environmental protection groups, the provincial government decided to purchase five of the Boucherville Islands in the mid-1970s for $7 million.

[1] When it was designated as a provincial park in 2001, its name was changed to its current form, Parc national des Îles-de-Boucherville.

[10] In January 2007, a real-estate developer purchased 20.6 hectares of land on Île Charron and began drawing up plans to build apartment towers on the site.

Quebec would later go on to purchase those same 20.6 hectares in 2011 for $15 million and annex the newly acquired land to the Îles-de-Boucherville National Park.

[12] In 2010, Sépaq announced that it intended to desist entirely from agriculture, opting instead to reforest the fields or leave them fallow, as the case may be.

Due to its status as a Category II protected area, the extraction of natural resources for economic purposes such as forestry, mining, and energy, is prohibited.

The park's schist subsurface is composed of calcareous Utica Shale from the middle and late Ordovician period.

[19] The low-relief islands are composed of marine clay left by the retreat of the Champlain Sea 12,000 years ago and shaped by the Saint Lawrence river.

Most notably, springs are a little cooler, as warming is slowed down by the presence of ice on the river and the shade provided by evergreen trees.

However, the park still contains a few wooded areas, namely the Grosbois woodland, which is composed of red ash and silver maple trees.

Golf des Îles, which is located on Île Pinard, is an 18-hole course with a length of 5,720 yards (5,230 m) and a par difficulty of 70.