montréal Parc du Mont-Royal - Discussion générale

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On peut commémorer l'événement de Poly sans en faire une présentation annuelle aussi spectaculaire. Récupérons cependant l'idée que nous pourrions même développer avec des variantes. Le belvédère est merveilleusement situé et se prêterait très bien à quelques fantaisies lumineuses pour souligner certaines fêtes notamment. Ou encore mieux s'inspirer de la Tour Eiffel pour marquer les heures, ou le nouvel an, la St-Jean etc.

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Images aériens

 

Montreal's Mount Royal from up above

CBC's Patrick Morrell snapped these photos of Montreal on a cold Saturday morning en route to Halifax

 

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-s-mount-royal-from-up-above-1.2880692

 

 

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Un belvedere était prévu pour cette version de la croix...

 

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/the-cross-on-mount-royal-a-storied-history

 

The cross on Mount Royal is one of Montreal’s most iconic landmarks. The cross first appeared on the mountain 372 years ago on Tuesday.

It was Jan. 6, 1643, when Paul de Chomedey, Sieur de Maisonneuve, erected a wooden cross at the summit of what would become Mount Royal. He wanted to thank God for sparing the young colony from rising flood waters. No one is sure how long the wooden cross lasted on the mountain. Did it eventually rot away or was it torn down by Indians angry with de Maisonneuve? The current steel cross was erected in 1924 and continues to be a major attraction for Montrealers and the city’s many tourists. This is a summary of the cross’s storied history.

 

A wooden cross

 

Shortly after the founding of Ville-Marie (Montreal) in 1642, the small colony near the St. Lawrence River was threatened by rising flood waters because of a sudden winter thaw just before Christmas. De Maisonneuve prayed to the Blessed Virgin to spare the colony and promised to erect a cross on a small mountain a short distance away if his prayers were answered. De Maisonneuve, a devout French military officer, kept his promise. On Jan. 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, he and his settlers erected a wooden cross on land that would become part of Mount Royal. After leading the colony for 24 years, de Maisonneuve returned to France and died in 1676. More than 339 years after his death, a cross, albeit in a different form, remains one of the most prominent fixtures of Montreal’s landscape.

 

A new cross for a new era

 

The current cross was erected in 1924 by the Société St-Jean Baptiste. In 1874, the group decided to raise money to install a cross on Mount Royal that would commemorate the one put up by de Maisonneuve back in 1643. As architects prepared the drawings, 4,200 adults and 100,000 children sold commemorative stamps for five cents each. The group raised $10,000 during the lengthy campaign. On Dec. 24, 1924, the cross was illuminated with lights that allowed it to be seen from about 80 kilometres away. The steel cross was designed by a Sulpician priest and weighs 26 tons. The original plans included plans for an observation tower but that idea was scrapped for financial reasons.

 

Bare-handed bulb changers

 

Over the years, many Montrealers have been hired to change the glass bulbs on the cross. In 1948, John Flynn Jr. told the Montreal Standard that he and his mates would climb up onto the cross carrying a basket full of bulbs, balance themselves on the steel girders and replace the ones that had burnt out. Three or four times a year, they would replace all 240 light bulbs. “The job needed three men, a waste paper basket, a 200-foot rope and a truck.” It took four hours to do the job. The men used the rope to haul the bulbs up in the basket. There was no fixed schedule to change he bulbs, Flynn said. They usually headed up to the mountain after residents called city hall to complain that some bulbs had burnt out.

 

The cross gets a facelift

 

In 1992, the incandescent lights were replaced with a high-tech fibre-optics lighting system that reduced the number of bulbs to 30 and increased the bulb life to three years. There would be no more bare-handed bulb changes. The new system allowed the cross to be lit in several colours, including purple, which occurred in 2005 when Pope John Paul II died. The cross remained purple until a new pope was elected. In 2009, the cross was taken down so an LED lighting system could be installed. The city of Montreal also improved access to the site. However, the cross is still off limits to the public and cameras and motion detectors alert authorities if someone climbs on the cross.

 

Happy Birthday Montreal

 

With Montreal’s 375th birthday taking place in 2017, a local group wants people to remember the city’s birthday every time they look up at the cross. Philippe Maillot, an MBA student, is proposing that large illuminated letters M and L be placed on both sides of the cross so that it spells MTL. He would like the cross to remain like that for 375 days.

 

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[MontréalMartin]

On Jan. 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, he and his settlers erected a wooden cross on land that would become part of Mount Royal.

 

La croix fut érigée sur un terrain qui s'appelait déjà le 'mont Royal' en 1643 puisque ce nom lui fut donné par Jacques Cartier en 1535.

S'ils voulaient dire 'sur un terrain qui deviendra le 'Parc du Mont Royal'', alors ils se trompent presqu'assurément. La plupart des hypothèses situent la croix de bois de Maisonneuve sur une butte située au haut de l'actuel chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges entre les avenues du Docteur-Penfield et des Pins, et visible à partir du fort Ville-Marie, à l'actuelle Pointe-à-Callière.

La plupart des indices qui permettent de localiser la croix de bois nous viennent des Sulpiciens qui avaient établi tout près de ce lieu le Fort de la Montagne, l'actuel Grand Séminaire de Montréal sur la rue Sherbrooke.

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20.029 Contrat de services professionnels CE Service des grands parcs_verdissement et du MontRoyal 1150504004

 

Accorder un contrat de services professionnels à Rousseau Lefebvre inc. pour la préparation des plans et devis relatifs au réaménagement du secteur du chalet du parc du Mont-Royal pour une somme maximale de 379 446,24 $ taxes incluses -Appel d'offres public (14-13894) -3 soumissionnaires / Approuver un projet de convention à cette fin

 

Compétence d’agglomération : Annexe du décret -Parc du Mont-Royal

 

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20.030 Contrat de services professionnels CG Service des grands parcs_verdissement et du MontRoyal 1150504005

 

Accorder un contrat de services professionnels à Services intégrés Lemay & Associés inc. pour la préparation des plans et devis relatifs à l'aménagement d'un nouveau seuil dans le secteur Cedar -Côtedes-Neiges du parc du Mont-Royal, pour une somme maximale de 607 938,36$, taxes incluses -Appel d'offres public (15-14105) -6 soumissionnaires / Approuver un projet de convention à cette fin.

 

Compétence d’agglomération : 20.031 Entente CG Annexe du décret -Parc du Mont-Royal

 

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[Mokita]

26 avril ...

 

 

[MontréalMartin]

Quelqu'un sait de quoi il s'agit cette structure de béton au Lac aux Castors ?

 

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[IluvMTL]

Tu parles des escaliers?

 

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[begratto]

Station de pompage du lac des castors?