{"id":3433,"date":"2008-08-04T21:12:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T01:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2008\/08\/04\/montreal-monday-secondhand-happiness-in-a-tiny-tiny-park-hydroelectricitys-landscape-and-mount-royal-by-bike-at-night\/"},"modified":"2008-08-05T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T11:26:07","slug":"montreal-monday-secondhand-happiness-in-a-tiny-tiny-park-hydroelectricitys-landscape-and-mount-royal-by-bike-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/04\/montreal-monday-secondhand-happiness-in-a-tiny-tiny-park-hydroelectricitys-landscape-and-mount-royal-by-bike-at-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Secondhand happiness in a tiny, tiny park, Hydroelectricity&#8217;s landscape, and Mount Royal by bike &#8211; at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3040\/2726480512_0a51fc43b1.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\"><em>Spacing Montr&eacute;al<\/em><\/a><em>. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; Parc du Bonheur d&#8217;occasion in St. Henri, named in honour of Gabrielle Roy&#8217;s celebrated 1945 novel about working class life in the area, is one of the smallest parks in Montr&eacute;al.  Measuring just under 300 square metres, the park fills a space in the streetscape that was likely created after a fire destroyed whatever building stood on the site previously, and <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/02\/second-hand-happiness-in-a-tiny-tiny-park\/\">now contains trees, a stone pathway, benches, and a bus shelter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; The Robert-Bourassa hydroelectric complex is connected to Montr&eacute;al by 60,000 km of aluminum power lines, which carry cheap, relatively clean energy to the city and beyond.  Alanah Heffez draws light on some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/08\/02\/hydroelectricitys-landscape\/#more-1194\">complexities and controversies<\/a> of a development that is so important to the power needs of Montr&eacute;al, yet due to its remote location 1,300 km north of the city, is often out of sight and mind for many city dwellers.<\/p>\n<p>&bull;  Traveling deeper into the woods and higher up the hill, too dark for clear sight but surrounded by noise and guided by instinct, Christopher DeWolf <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/07\/29\/mount-royal-by-bike-at-night\/\">cycles around the brooding dark mass that is Mount Royal at night, and shares his experiences<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Lily Pan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. &bull; Parc du Bonheur d&#8217;occasion in St. Henri, named in honour of Gabrielle Roy&#8217;s celebrated 1945 novel about working<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2008\/08\/04\/montreal-monday-secondhand-happiness-in-a-tiny-tiny-park-hydroelectricitys-landscape-and-mount-royal-by-bike-at-night\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montr\u00e9al Monday: Secondhand happiness in a tiny, tiny park, Hydroelectricity&#8217;s landscape, and Mount Royal by bike &#8211; at night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_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":[14],"tags":[1582,9899,9897,9898,38,19],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-christopher-dewolf","tag-clean-energy","tag-gabrielle-roy","tag-lily-pan","tag-montreal","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montr\u00e9al Monday: Secondhand happiness in a tiny, tiny park, Hydroelectricity&#039;s landscape, and Mount Royal by bike - at night  - Spacing Toronto<\/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\/toronto\/2008\/08\/04\/montreal-monday-secondhand-happiness-in-a-tiny-tiny-park-hydroelectricitys-landscape-and-mount-royal-by-bike-at-night\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montr\u00e9al Monday: Secondhand happiness in a tiny, tiny park, Hydroelectricity&#039;s landscape, and Mount Royal by bike - at night  - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Monday, Spacing will bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montr&eacute;al. 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