{"id":1786,"date":"2008-12-11T05:36:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T10:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/12\/11\/photo-du-jour-bassin-du-grand-seminaire\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:15:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:15:39","slug":"photo-du-jour-bassin-du-grand-seminaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/12\/11\/photo-du-jour-bassin-du-grand-seminaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du Jour &#8211; Bassin du Grand S\u00e9minaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/3081817180\/\" title=\"Bassin du Grand S\u00e9minaire de Montr\u00e9al by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3021\/3081817180_65c65bd6bf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just to the west of the du Grand S\u00e9minaire building on Sherbrooke and du Fort, this shallow pool was built some time between 1731 and 1801 (the exact date seems to be unknown). An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsdm.qc.ca\/mn\/grande_carte.jpg\">1846 map<\/a> of the site shows the basin in its current form. The picture above was taken on December 3rd 2008, just as the first crust of ice was forming on the surface of the water.<span class=\"txt_norm\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txt_norm\">Measuring 158.5 by 7.6 m the basin initially ran through <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/12\/05\/photo-du-jour-old-school\/\">Fort de la Montagne<\/a>&#8216;s orchard, serving as drainage for the entire property. Later, the seminarians used it as a meditation pool. The basin is still filled by water that flows down from Mount Royal and, <\/span><span class=\"txt_norm\">since a restoration project in 2000-04, <\/span><span class=\"txt_norm\"> drains into the municipal sewer system. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"txt_norm\">The site is home to some majestic centennial trees <\/span>and remains a quiet, meditative place within a stone&#8217;s throw of Sherbrooke Street.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsdm.qc.ca\/gsm_lieuxhist.php\">Grand S\u00e9minaire de Montr\u00e9al website <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just to the west of the du Grand S\u00e9minaire building on Sherbrooke and du Fort, this shallow pool was built some time between 1731 and 1801 (the exact date seems to be unknown). An 1846 map of the site shows the basin in its current form. The picture above was taken on December 3rd 2008,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/12\/11\/photo-du-jour-bassin-du-grand-seminaire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Photo du Jour &#8211; Bassin du Grand S\u00e9minaire&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7837],"tags":[3342,14],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-history","tag-grand-seminaire-building","tag-historical"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Photo du Jour - Bassin du Grand S\u00e9minaire - Spacing Montreal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/12\/11\/photo-du-jour-bassin-du-grand-seminaire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photo du Jour - Bassin du Grand S\u00e9minaire - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Just to the west of the du Grand S\u00e9minaire building on Sherbrooke and du Fort, this shallow pool was built some time between 1731 and 1801 (the exact date seems to be unknown). 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