City buys small east-end forest
The city has bought a slab of the remaining east-end forest near the edge of the island, although there’s a row of houses between it and the back river. Item says it’s the site of a waterway but there’s no sign of it on the Google aerial view or map.
If you scroll southward you’ll see a whole chain of penal establishments, ending with the Pinel Institute.
Blork 19:08 on 2020-05-20 Permalink
The Ruisseau Pinel appears in Google Maps (non-satellite and satellite) for me, except there’s nothing there in satellite view. In map view there’s definitely a blue line between 87th and Amrand-Chaput that starts at the river then goes south as far as “Viafax” and then turns east and snakes all the way into the industrial area at Maurice-Duplessis and Olivier-Lejeune. Maybe it’s some kind of subterranean waterway? How weird.
Kate 20:24 on 2020-05-20 Permalink
Could be. But a ways west of there, there’s Ruisseau-de-Montigny park which really does have a little waterway running through it, emptying into the back river. There would’ve been a lot more of these, I think, except we’ve got used to the idea that it’s one big indivisible island and the rivers only run around it.
Hervé 06:59 on 2020-05-21 Permalink
Could they be talking about this stream here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/45.66490/-73.54174
Visible here: https://goo.gl/maps/xMUhEdWZr6nRFAxf7
Kate 09:02 on 2020-05-21 Permalink
Hervé, that’s the one. Thanks for finding it!
MarcG 11:09 on 2020-05-21 Permalink
That’s the same thing Blork was talking about, unless I misunderstood something.
MarcG 11:11 on 2020-05-21 Permalink
You can see a little bridge going over it here https://goo.gl/maps/xo1nMawuLWgD27x68
MarcG 11:29 on 2020-05-21 Permalink
… although there’s still no literal “link” between that chunk of forest and the Pinel river, maybe they mean it in a broader ecological sense.
Blork 12:30 on 2020-05-21 Permalink
Yeah, that’s the same one visible in Google Maps. I didn’t think to go into Streetview because Satellite view shows nothing. Nice work!
david1202 21:11 on 2020-05-21 Permalink
We need the province to start buying units secretly and demolishing them without explanation, only to spring a bunch of giant new parks on us, sufficiently before the election.