I’ve heard it called the falaise St. Jacques, the St. Jacques escarpement and even the St. Jacques cliff. Just to confuse things, the group behind the proposal to turn the former Turcot Yards into Parc Lac à la loutre (Otter Lake Park) has taken to calling it the “Falaises Saint-Pierre,” a name La Presse repeated [...]
Archive for July, 2007
a falaise by any other name
Posted in bike paths, the falaise, turcot yard on July 30, 2007 | 7 Comments »
the falaise in 3d, sort of
Posted in bike paths, glen superhospital, maps, photos, the falaise, turcot yard on July 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A reader wrote in to suggest I explore the falaise using Microsoft’s Visual Earth 3D (beta), which lets you look at aerial photos from an angle.
It gives an interesting perspective, with Mount Royal in the background and the Lachine canal in the foreground. You can also see the former Turcot and Glen yards. That X at [...]
a mountain bike trail?
Posted in bike paths, the falaise on July 12, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I got an email about the falaise from the guy who runs Cycle Fun Montreal.
Here it is:
“You might want to show a picture of the lake that used to be here or around here in the preindustrial past. I’ve seen it in at least one local history book.
My own interest would be to create Montreal’s first [...]
of trails and wars in the 1940s and 1950s
Posted in bike paths, history, st. raymond neighbourhood on July 5, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I got a couple of wonderful emails from reader Dan J. Sullivan about what the area (particularly what is now de Maisonneuve Blvd. and the St. Raymond neighbourhood) was like in the 1940s and 1950s.
His first email:
“Great article. As yet I have not read the blog. As kid growing up in N.D.G. our thrill was [...]
mysterious pipes
Posted in articles, photos, the falaise on July 3, 2007 | 3 Comments »
A reader emailed to say those pipes sticking out of the ground on the falaise are probably “for decontamination testing. They take a core sample and leave the vent pipe to mark the spot…”
Which makes more sense than what I thought: that they were vents of some sort.
the champlain sea, otter lake, foxes and coyotes
Posted in articles, glen superhospital, montreal explorers, reports, the falaise, turcot yard on July 1, 2007 | 2 Comments »
After my article about the falaise ran in The Gazette, I got an email from John Fretz, who has done some very interesting research into the St. Pierre River (the pdf is here, on the Green Coalition website).
Fretz helped fill in a few of the gaps in my falaise research:
* Fossils and calcium deposits confirm the falaise is [...]
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