Grand parc de l’Ouest – Plante’s legacy
Radio-Canada writes about the Grand parc de l’Ouest as Valérie Plante’s legacy.
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Ian 18:15 on 2025-08-15 Permalink
As far as legacies go, that’s pretty darn good.
waterside-fowl 12:37 on 2025-08-16 Permalink
Hopefully, with a new PQ government on the way, we will see the expropration and removal of some of the waterside bungalows that eat up the park’s shoreline.
Densifying the burbs must involve the creation of more waterfront parks like this one, and the bungalows that are there now must be moved for ecological and quality-of-visitor-experience reasons.
Plus ducks…
Kate 12:59 on 2025-08-16 Permalink
Do people formally own these bungalows or are they more or less like the ones on Île Ste‑Thérèse that were built informally years ago and simply occupied in the summer by general understanding?
And how does this dovetail with the fact that Quebec lets you control a property once you’ve been using it for ten years (see video from CBC)?
Ian 15:42 on 2025-08-16 Permalink
Qatzi just hates the Anglo suburbs, let’s not pretend this is about anything else.
Kate 17:52 on 2025-08-16 Permalink
Ah yes.
But there’s a precedent here for houses to be grandfathered in to a park. Île de la Visitation has maybe a dozen houses that are still inhabited, inside the park bounds. You can see a couple of them here.