{"id":2319,"date":"2009-04-14T05:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2009\/04\/14\/photo-du-jour-west-side-waterfront\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:33:10","slug":"photo-du-jour-west-side-waterfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/04\/14\/photo-du-jour-west-side-waterfront\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo du Jour : West-Side Waterfront"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/alanahmontreal\/3435078372\/\" title=\"West-side waterfront by alanah.montreal, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3385\/3435078372_3acc4dc890.jpg\" alt=\"West-side waterfront\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week I posted a photo of an inaccessible stretch of <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/04\/05\/photo-du-jour-east-side-waterfront\/\">east side waterfront<\/a> and got all kinds of outraged comments saying that I was not accurately portraying Montreal&#8217;s riverside.<\/p>\n<p>A tough current meant that few boats could pass beyond de Lorimier (the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/04\/09\/photo-du-jour-la-prison-au-pied-du-courant\/\">old prison<\/a> was named for this current). Consequently, industry and port activity were concentrated in the East End and eventually along the Lachine Canal. The riverside in Verdun and Lasalle remained relatively pristine.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo taken April 10th 2009. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I posted a photo of an inaccessible stretch of east side waterfront and got all kinds of outraged comments saying that I was not accurately portraying Montreal&#8217;s riverside. A tough current meant that few boats could pass beyond de Lorimier (the old prison was named for this current). Consequently, industry and port activity<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/04\/14\/photo-du-jour-west-side-waterfront\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Photo du Jour : West-Side Waterfront&#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":[7831,7834,7839,35],"tags":[326,125,21,52,60],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-features","category-neighbourhoods","category-waterfront","tag-lachine-canal","tag-montreal","tag-people","tag-photo-du-jour","tag-verdun"],"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 : West-Side Waterfront - 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\/2009\/04\/14\/photo-du-jour-west-side-waterfront\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Photo du Jour : West-Side Waterfront - Spacing Montreal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week I posted a photo of an inaccessible stretch of east side waterfront and got all kinds of outraged comments saying that I was not accurately portraying Montreal&#8217;s riverside. 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