Urban Exploration / Exploration urbaine
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Tree Tuesday: Remarkable trees, remarkable people
Next tree tour: Remarkable trees of a Plateau neighbourhood, this Sunday, 10:30 – 1 pm, meet Parc Jean-Jacques Olier, Drolet, south of Duluth, Metro...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Dead Ends and Signs of Life Inside the Point St. Charles Collector
A view through the original Point St. Charles collector sewer, constructed in 1862. Perhaps the most interesting underground features in the Montreal area...
By Andrew Emond -
Le mardi des arbres: Bleu, blanc, jaune
Visite guidée mardi prochain (18 août): Les arbres du 19 ième et les récents arrivés, campus McGill, détails à la fin de l’article. Parmi les noms...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Tree Tuesday: Stalking the Walnut: 3 Sites
Walnuts are trees of the Gods. It’s right there in the name: Juglans means the nut, or acorn (as in the French, gland), of Jupiter, top God of the...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Marché Adonis, boulevard Des Sources
Si vous aviez à aller en randonnée dans le West Island, le Supermarché Adonis sur le boulevard Des Sources (Google Maps) est une destination...
By Cédric Sam -
Montreal Waterworks, Part II – Inside the Conduit
Inside the Montreal’s former water intake conduit In my last entry I talked about Montreal’s Aqueduct canal and its role in bringing water to the...
By Andrew Emond -
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...
By Bronwyn Chester -
Montreal Waterworks, Part I – The Aqueduct
Montreal’s aqueduct canal at the Crawford Street bridge in Verdun. So far, most of my entries here on Spacing and Undermontreal have dealt with...
By Andrew Emond -
Far Out in the West Island of Montreal
Inside the ‘7-UP’ chamber. The West Island of Montreal offers what are essentially the low-lying fruit for underground exploring. The...
By Andrew Emond -
1ière avenue, part 3: Lachine
Continuing our tour of Montreal’s 1ière avenues, we find ourselves on Lachine’s tiny “1 Avenue” (as the street sign indicates) at...
By Chris Erb -
Montreal’s Underground Underdogs
Inside the Molson Collector, somewhere beneath Rue Dickson in 2007. When it comes to Montreal’s underground achievements, the Metro system tends...
By Andrew Emond -
Following Riviere St. Pierre Under Lachine
Inside the Rockfield combined sewer overflow conduit Picking up from where we last left off, this stretch takes us through the inside of the Cote-St-Luc...
By Andrew Emond