Location of photograph: Corner of blvd René-Lévesque / rue Metcalf
Date of photo: May 29 2014
Photographer: Martin New at Montreal in Pictures
Work has started on renovating Place du Canada. The work is scheduled to take 18 months and cost around $9 million. Being the former Saint Antoine Cemetery, an interesting note in regard to the work involved, is that around 150-200 bodies are to be moved and reinterred in Notre-Dames-des-Neiges Cemetery…although there’s believed to be up to 38,000 human remains beneath the park.
The same landscape architecture firm that carried out the recent Dorchester Square renovation are also in charge of the Place du Canada project. The renovation includes the planting of nearly 100 trees, granite walkways, lawns, flower gardens and new lighting.