{"id":24336,"date":"2014-02-12T21:57:53","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T02:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/?p=24336"},"modified":"2014-04-15T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:24:09","slug":"blue-bonnets-et-lhistoire-hippique-de-montreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2014\/02\/12\/blue-bonnets-et-lhistoire-hippique-de-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Bonnets et l\u2019histoire hippique de Montr\u00e9al"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contribution sp\u00e9ciale de Christophe-Hubert Joncas. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Bien que les Canadiens s\u2019adonnent aux courses de chevaux, dites traditionnelles, d\u00e8s le d\u00e9but du 18e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle, ce n\u2019est seulement lorsque les Britanniques s\u2019installent au Canada, \u00e0 la suite de la conqu\u00eate de 1760, que sont introduites les courses de chevaux sportives\u00a0institu\u00e9es et codifi\u00e9es par Henri VIII (1491-1547).<\/p>\n

Les premi\u00e8res courses sportives sont organis\u00e9es \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al vers 1828 dans un secteur situ\u00e9 sur le territoire de l\u2019ancienne ville Saint-Pierre plus tard connu sous le nom de Blue Bonnets.<\/p>\n

Plusieurs th\u00e8ses sont avanc\u00e9es pour expliquer l\u2019origine de ce nom. La plus souvent avanc\u00e9e associe l\u2019origine du nom \u00e0 Alexander McRae, un sergent attach\u00e9 au r\u00e9giment \u00e9cossais bas\u00e9 \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al, qui aurait ouvert en 1842 une taverne sous le nom de Blue Bonnets. En raison de la popularit\u00e9 de la taverne – qui devient rapidement un arr\u00eat incontournable pour assouvir tant la soif des cavaliers que de leur monture sur le chemin fr\u00e9quent\u00e9 entre Lachine et Montr\u00e9al – le village de m\u00eame que le lieu o\u00f9 se pratiquent les courses auraient fini par \u00eatre reconnus sous la d\u00e9nomination Blue Bonnets.<\/p>\n

La construction du chemin de fer entre Lachine et Montr\u00e9al en 1847 entra\u00eene toutefois la destruction de la piste et du village de Blue Bonnets. Malgr\u00e9 cette d\u00e9molition forc\u00e9e, en 1872, une nouvelle piste de course est am\u00e9nag\u00e9e dans le secteur actuel de Montr\u00e9al Ouest, \u00e0 proximit\u00e9 du lieu originel, au grand plaisir des amateurs de chevaux.<\/p>\n

Puisque le nom de Blue Bonnets est d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque fortement ancr\u00e9 dans la m\u00e9moire collective du milieu \u00e9questre montr\u00e9alais, la nouvelle piste conserve le nom de la premi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

\"Extrait<\/a>
Site de la deuxi\u00e8me piste de course de chevaux nomm\u00e9e Blue Bonnets, Extrait du plan Atlas of the city of island of Montreal de H. Hopkins, 1879, BANQ<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

La piste de Blue Bonnets est alors un t\u00e9moin parmi d\u2019autres de l\u2019importance accord\u00e9e au cheval \u00e0 cette \u00e9poque. En effet, les chevaux sont fortement mis \u00e0 profit \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al pratiquement jusqu\u2019au d\u00e9but milieu du 20e<\/sup> si\u00e8cle notamment pour assurer le bon fonctionnement des activit\u00e9s de d\u00e9bardage au port et de la distribution du lait et de la bi\u00e8re.<\/p>\n

\"Les<\/a>
Les installations de la Ferme Saint-Laurent, une coop\u00e9rative de laitiers, 1931, \u00c9comus\u00e9e du fier monde.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Le cheval est \u00e0 cette \u00a0\u00e9poque aussi estim\u00e9 pour ses qualit\u00e9s physiques et esth\u00e9tiques et constitue une source de fiert\u00e9 pour son propri\u00e9taire. L\u2019abondance d\u2019archives photographiques mettant en sc\u00e8ne des chevaux dans la collection Notman du Mus\u00e9e McCord en t\u00e9moigne.<\/p>\n

\"Photograph<\/a>
Mr. Chevalier & horse, Montreal, QC, 1894, Wm. Notman & Son, Mus\u00e9e McCord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Peu de temps apr\u00e8s sa fondation en 1905, le Montreal Jockey Club se met \u00e0 la recherche d\u2019un grand terrain plat et nivel\u00e9 pour une nouvelle piste. Apr\u00e8s plusieurs d\u00e9marches, le club ach\u00e8te plusieurs lots dans le village de Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Ouest et entreprend les travaux de construction de l\u2019hippodrome selon un plan d\u2019ensemble s\u2019inspirant de celui de Saratoga situ\u00e9 dans l\u2019\u00c9tat de New York.<\/p>\n

\"MP-0000.873.9\"<\/a>
View from the stands, Blue Bonnets Race Track, Montreal, QC, about 1907, Mus\u00e9e McCord<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

La popularit\u00e9 des courses de chevaux est telle dans les ann\u00e9es 1930 et 1940 qu\u2019on note la pr\u00e9sence de nombreux hippodromes en plus de Blue Bonnets dans la r\u00e9gion de Montr\u00e9al, dont ceux de Dorval, de Richelieu, de Mount Royal, de King\u2019s Park et du Parc De Lorimier, tous d\u00e9molis depuis (Image situ\u00e9e au d\u00e9but de l’article: la partie ouest de Ville Mont-Royal montrant les hippodromes Blue Bonnets, Mount Royal et King\u2019s Park. Source: Archives Ville Mont-Royal, 1945.)<\/p>\n

R\u00e9am\u00e9nag\u00e9 dans les ann\u00e9es 1950 et 1960, Blue Bonnets est le seul a avoir \u00e9t\u00e9 en op\u00e9ration\u00a0au-del\u00e0 des ann\u00e9es 1980. Vestige d\u2019une autre \u00e9poque, il t\u00e9moigne toujours de l\u2019importance historique des chevaux \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Hippodrome Blue Bonnets, 2014, L\u2019Enclume \u2013 Atelier de d\u00e9veloppement territorial.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Christophe-Hubert Joncas a une formation multidisciplinaire en biologie, en anthropologie et en urbanisme. Il s\u2019int\u00e9resse \u00e0 l\u2019histoire et \u00e0 l\u2019architecture de Montr\u00e9al ainsi qu’aux types d’occupation du territoire.\u00a0<\/em>Il a \u00e9t\u00e9\u00a0charg\u00e9 de projet d’une \u00e9tude patrimoniale sur l’hippodrome de Montr\u00e9al, fait par <\/em>L’Enclume – Atelier de d\u00e9veloppement territorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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