Parks / Parcs

Photo du Jour : Viger square fashion shoot

Photo taken June 18th 2009 in Viger Square.

Teens in public space: when the world is your junglegym

The thing to do on prom night 1998 was to take the rented limo up to the lookout on Mount-Royal after a soirée of underage bar-hopping to see the sun...

Le parc sans nom toujours abandonné

Un an après le centre d’artistes Dare-Dare a quitté le Mile-End pour s’établir au square Cabot, le fameux parc sans nom reste toujours...

Remembering 6/4, the Tiananmen events, in Montreal’s most Chinese public space

Almost naturally, Parc Sun-Yat-Sen, also called Zhongshan Park by some, was the location of Montreal’s presumably only public commemoration of 6/4...

Photo du Jour : Échecs

Maguire Meadow Garden Deemed Illegal

I hate to put up a second post about bizarre law-enforcing activities over the weekend, but it has to be said: last Sunday, the Montreal Police broke up a...

Tree Tuesday: Forest flowers of Mount Royal

NOTICE: SPRING FLOWER WALK ON MOUNT ROYAL THIS SATURDAY. See below for details. I was delighted to see KC Bolton’s beautiful photo of the magnolia...

Photo du Jour : Corner of McGill and Wellington

Photo by pasdecouleur, shared in the Spacing Montreal flickr pool.

Photo du jour : Sunbathing at McGill

Photo taken on April 19th, 2009, but it is probably juste an avant-goût of the summer…

Place Albert-Duquesne : In Memoriam

I actually do not know how to feel about these trees that were chopped down a few weeks ago to make space for a section of the Quartier des spectacles. I...

More Life – Biodiversity and the Parc des Rapides

  Cecilia Chen is a special contributor to Spacing Montreal. This article is part of a series of three-part series examining biodiversity along an urban...

City chops down 67 crabapple trees

The city has axed 67 crabapple trees in a small square, Place Albert-Duquesne, behind Place des Arts. The trees, which were planted after the construction...