The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Champ-de-Mars
Most people cross this square without knowing the low stone lines in the grass are the real thing: the excavated foundations of the fortified walls that once ringed Montreal, demolished in the early 1800s. Walk the exposed footings and you trace exactly where the French colonial town ended and the suburbs began. It's free and almost always empty.
An open square where the excavated stone foundations of Montreal's 18th-century fortification walls are exposed in the grass — free, outdoors.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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