Downtown rink to be called Esplanade Tranquille
The ice rink at Ste-Catherine and Clark – originally a Coderre project, now to be completed for next winter – will be called Esplanade Tranquille after a bookshop that was at the site till 1975.
Update: Other articles on the space mention that it will be a park in summertime.
Meezly 13:17 on 2019-11-14 Permalink
Sweet!
Patrick 14:05 on 2019-11-14 Permalink
It’s great that Henri Tranquille will be remembered this way. As a student, I knew the bookstore in its last years. Its glory had faded but it was still a kind of shrine. I wonder how many people in the future will think the name is an adjective and not the name of a person? Of course the ambiguity is also a bonus.