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Grand Parc De L’Ouest
Grand Parc de L'Ouest is a planned park along the north shore of the western part of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The plan is to combine the following into one large park: * L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park * Bois-de-l'Île-Bizard Nature Park * Bois-de-la-Roche Agricultural Park * Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park * Rapides du Cheval Blanc Park * Various areas of interest located in boroughs or related municipalities The combined area will be over . It has the potential to become Canada's largest municipal park. Among its aims are to protect natural environments and to preserve biodiversity History On August 8, 2019, the City of Montreal announced the planned creation of the park in order to protect the natural spaces of Montreal's West Island The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-most populous city in Canada and List of towns in Quebec, most populous city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, which obtained its name from the same origin as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. As of 2021, the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census Metropolitan Area#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest city, and List of cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec
Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is the largest province by area and the second-largest by population. Much of the population lives in urban areas along the St. Lawrence River, between the most populous city, Montreal, and the provincial capital, Quebec City. Quebec is the home of the Québécois nation. Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States. Between 1534 and 1763, Quebec was called ''Canada'' and was the most developed colony in New France. Following the Seven Years' War, Quebec b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching , is the world's longest binational land border. Canada's capital is Ottawa, and its three largest metropolitan areas are Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. Indigenous peoples have continuously inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years. Beginning in the 16th century, British and French expeditions explored and later settled along the Atlantic coast. As a consequence of various armed conflicts, France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park
L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park (french: Parc-nature de l'Anse-à-l'Orme) is a large nature park in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Senneville Road, opens onto a vast expanse of water, a widening of the Lake of Two Mountains, called l'Anse à l'Orme ( en, Elm Cove). The L'Anse-à-l'Orme Nature Park, which belongs to the city of Montreal, has an area of . The park extends along the cove for about , on both sides of the mouth of the Rivière à l'Orme ( en, Elm River). From the Lake of Two Mountains, the park area extends inland for an approximately long corridor along the line the banks of the Rivière à l'Orme. History Some believed that the name would indicate the presence of elms (french: orme) here. Others say that the place name commemorates Julien Hubert dit Delorme to whom the land adjacent to the cove (french: anse) had been granted in 1698. The name "Rivière Anse à l'Orme" can be found on maps starting in 1744, on which the name appears to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bois-de-l'Île-Bizard Nature Park
Bois-de-l'Île-Bizard Nature Park is a large nature park in the L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève borough of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The nature park is in the east-central part of Île Bizard. Almost all of the area is located in the interior of the island, linking the Lake of Two Mountains and the Rivière des Prairies. Pointe-aux-Carrières is the largest of the three coastal locations. It is the location of the park's welcome centre. History In 1678, Jacques Bizard received the right to Île Bizard which at the time was named after Bonaventure. The seigneury of Bizard remained the property of this family until the British Conquest. It was then held by Montreal merchant Pierre Foretier and his heirs. Île Bizard began to be populated in the second half of the eighteenth century. The area of the Bois-de-l'Île-Bizard Nature Park was probably not been subject to residential development because of its marshy soil and the presence of quarries nearby. The Bois-de-l'Île-Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park
Cap-Saint-Jacques Nature Park (french: Parc-nature du Cap-Saint-Jacques) is a large nature park in the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough of Montreal, Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ..., Canada. It is located in the West Island at the junction of the Lake of Two Mountains and the Rivière des Prairies. Situated on a peninsula, three quarters of the park is bordered by water. At , it is the largest park in Montreal. The land for the park was purchased by the City of Montreal on 15 February 1980 from the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary, Congregation des Soeurs des Saints Noms de Jesus et de Marie. The park features a natural sand beach and an organic farm, which raises animals and grows Organic food, organic produce. Farm activities are offered by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapides Du Cheval Blanc
There are three locations in Quebec, Canada with the name "Rapides du Cheval Blanc". This article refers to the rapids between the north shore of the Island of Montreal and the south shore of Sainte-Dorothée, Laval. The Rapides du Cheval Blanc, or White Horse Rapids, flow between the Island of Montreal, Pierrefonds-Roxboro and Sainte-Dorothée, Laval on the Rivière des Prairies in Quebec. The Rapides du Cheval Blanc also include a protected wooded area, a public city park adjacent to the rapids, and to a fault line underneath the area. History The name Whitehorse or Cheval Blanc can be traced to several legends. A legend dating to the 18th century tells of a white horse that would emerge from the Rivière des Prairies to terrorize villagers and ravage crops. Another legend speaks of a horse pulling a cart on a ferry across the river to Île Bizard. When the cable connecting the ferry to the shore broke and started to drift downstream, the horse escaped at the rapids. Anot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Island
The West Island () is the unofficial name given to the cities, towns and boroughs at the western end of the Island of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. It is generally considered to consist of the Lakeshore municipalities of Dorval, Pointe-Claire, and Beaconsfield, the municipalities of Kirkland, Dollard-des-Ormeaux, Baie-D'Urfé, Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, the village of Senneville, and two North Shore boroughs of the city of Montreal: Pierrefonds-Roxboro and L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève. Historically, there was a linguistic division of the island of Montreal into French and English 'halves', with Francophones typically inhabiting the eastern portion of the island and Anglophones typically inhabiting the western half. The West Island's population is approximately 234,000 and although the overwhelming majority of its residents are today bilingual if not multi-lingual (given the cosmopolitan nature of this vast suburban area), anglophones still make up a plurality of the W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
