{"id":453,"date":"2008-01-06T03:35:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T07:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=453"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:30:12","slug":"mysterious-igloos-appear-on-mount-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/01\/06\/mysterious-igloos-appear-on-mount-royal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious igloos appear on Mount Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.canoe.com\/archives\/infos\/societe\/\/media\/2008\/01\/20080105-094100-g.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.canoe.com\/cgi-bin\/imprimer.cgi?id=336804\">Journal de Montr\u00e9al reported yesterday<\/a> that two igloos have appeared on Mount Royal, one near Park Avenue and the other further west, near Beaver Lake. They&#8217;re both about six feet high, made from large blocks of snow, cut and assembled quite solidly, and big enough to hold two or three people. Nobody seems to know who built them, though, or for that matter, why. The Journal offers some ideas:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u00abC&#8217;est tout \u00e0 fait plausible qu&#8217;un sans-abri d&#8217;origine inuite ait construit cet igloo pour y passer la nuit\u00bb, affirme Craig Ross, coordonnateur du centre des jeunes du Centre d&#8217;amiti\u00e9 autochtone de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abJe crois m\u00eame savoir de qui il s&#8217;agit\u00bb, ajoute-t-il, bien qu&#8217;il ne puisse nous dire o\u00f9 se trouve cette personne sans domicile fixe.<\/p>\n<p>Selon les chiffres du Centre d&#8217;amiti\u00e9 autochtone de Montr\u00e9al, il y aurait pr\u00e8s de 300 sans-logis d&#8217;origine inuite dans la m\u00e9tropole.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abLes igloos sont des constructions ancestrales. Bien peu d&#8217;Inuits savent en construire un de nos jours\u00bb, observe une travailleuse sociale du Module du Nord Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, qui pr\u00e9f\u00e8re demeurer anonyme.<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;intervenante \u00e9met l&#8217;hypoth\u00e8se que la construction aurait pu avoir une vocation \u00e9ducative.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One elderly Inuit man encountered by the Journal suggested that it would be entirely possible to create an inhabitable igloo on Mount Royal, but that it probably wouldn&#8217;t last very long, since a more durable igloo would require drier, firmer and colder snow. <\/p>\n<p>The Journal also contacted Les Amis de la montagne, whose spokesperson said, &#8220;This construction was not authorized. A dwelling of this type is illegal.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure to what degree this quote was taken out of context, but it strikes me as a bit absurd to dwell on the legality of building an igloo in a snow-covered park.<\/p>\n<p><i>Photo by Donald Courchesne, Journal de Montr\u00e9al. Thanks to Kate McDonnell for pointing the way to this story on her <a href=\"http:\/\/w5.montreal.com\/mtlweblog\/index.html\">Montreal City<\/a> blog.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Journal de Montr\u00e9al reported yesterday that two igloos have appeared on Mount Royal, one near Park Avenue and the other further west, near Beaver Lake. They&#8217;re both about six feet high, made from large blocks of snow, cut and assembled quite solidly, and big enough to hold two or three people. 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