About this site
Élise Gagnon, and how facts are checked
Élise Gagnon is the name this guide is written and hosted under, a character created for it. The guide exists because Québec’s four casinos are four very different trips, and their facts sit on many separate pages.
By Élise GagnonChecked October 7, 2026
Who Élise Gagnon is
Élise Gagnon is the name this guide is written and hosted under. She is a character created for the guide, not a real person. The photographs of her on the site are AI-generated images, not pictures of a real woman.
The guide is independent. It is not affiliated with Loto-Québec, Playground, the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission or any venue. Venues, Loto-Québec, Playground, transit agencies and help services never pay this site. Links to venues, lotoquebec.com and help services are not paid, and readers are offered no rewards.
What she does on the pages
On the casino and gaming-hall pages, Élise Gagnon holds a board with one fact about that venue. It might be the hours or how to get there. Elsewhere she points at the tool to start with. Her short notes beside some sections repeat a tip or a warning from that same section.
Loto-Québec’s network has 4 casinos, 2 gaming halls and 2 hotels. The guide treats those casinos as four kinds of trip, not four entries in a list. One is a city night on Île Notre-Dame, another a lakeside evening in Gatineau. The others are a mountain resort and a casino on the cliffs of Pointe-au-Pic. After them come the two gaming halls, the Hippodrome 3R and Playground.
Where the facts come from
Hours are given in Eastern Time, as the venues publish them. Street addresses and phone numbers come from each venue’s own pages, and map positions from OpenStreetMap coordinates. Every fact was checked on October 7, 2026.
Facts come from Loto-Québec’s casino, gaming-hall and corporate pages, the Hippodrome 3R site, Playground’s site and the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission. More come from Gambling: Help and Referral, the RACJ, Québec’s Ministry of Finance and the federal Criminal Code. Some history comes from CBC and L’actualité, and the Institut de la statistique du Québec is also a source. Venue names stay in French, exactly as the venues write them.
House rules
Distances are straight lines from city halls, computed from map coordinates, not driving distances. Where official pages give different figures or days, the guide says they differ and leaves the number out.
Every page carries the check date, October 7, 2026. Holiday hours are not given and should be checked on each venue’s own site. No venue gets a score or a star.
Loto-Québec also manages network bingo, the Kinzo game and video lottery terminals. Bingo halls, video lottery bars and Kinzo are not covered here. The Office Poker Club and River Run Poker, both in Kahnawà:ke, are not listed as open. No hours or website were found for the first, and no notice of reinstatement for the second.