Chinatown in Montreal
Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Montreal that contains many Asian restaurants, food markets, and convenience stores as well as being home to many of Montreal’s East Asian community centres.
Chinatown is a neighbourhood in Montreal that contains many Asian restaurants, food markets, and convenience stores as well as being home to many of Montreal’s East Asian community centres.
Parc Jarry is a park in the Villeray neighbourhood of Montreal. I saw a lot of squirrels there.
The Bois-de-Liesse Nature Park is a large park in the northwestern part of the island of Montreal, near the Rivière des Prairies. It has a number of walking trails to choose from (see the map). In winter, the trails are used for cross-country skiing (see the winter map).
The Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel is one of the oldest churches in Montreal. It was built in 1771 in the district of Old Montreal, near the Old Port.
The Redpath Museum is a museum of natural history located inside McGill University’s campus in Downtown Montreal. It houses collections of interest to ethnology, biology, paleontology, and mineralogy/geology.
La Fontaine Park (Parc La Fontaine) is a large park in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal.
The Montreal Botanical Garden (Jardin botanique de Montréal) is a large botanical garden located in Maisonneuve Park near the Olympic Stadium and Biodome. It has a number of thematic parks, including a Japanese garden, Chinese garden, First Nations garden and Alpine garden.
Above, photo of the Botanical Garden and Parc Maisonneuve from the Montreal Tower observatory.
The Montreal Biodome is a greenhouse located at the Olympic Park in Montreal, near the Olympic Stadium. The building was originally designed to serve as a velodrome for the 1976 Summer Olympics. The Biodome lets visitors walk through replicas of 5 ecosystems found in the Americas: Tropical Forest, Laurentian Maple Forest, Gulf of Saint Lawrence Marine Ecosystem, Labrador Coast, Sub-Antarctic Islands.