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Mount Royal Chalet is a building located near the summit of Mount Royal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The chalet was constructed in 1932 [1] under the mayoralty of Camillien Houde as a make-work project during the Great Depression. [2] The French Beaux Arts structure was designed by Montreal architect Aristide Beaugrand-Champagne (1876-1950). [3 ...
Mount Royal is the deep extension of a vastly eroded ancient volcanic complex, which was probably active about 125 million years ago. [2]The mountain, along with the other mountains of the Monteregian Hills, was formed when the North American Plate moved westward over the New England hotspot. [2]
Mount Royal Park, the grand central city park and hill of Montreal once hosted alpine skiing runs next to Beaver Lake and ski jumps. The ski runs last operated in the 1990s. It now only hosts cross-country skiing, and sliding.
Mount Royal was designed in 1876 by Frederick Law Olmsted, best known as the designer of New York's Central Park.Mount Royal's features include the Chalet and the Kondiaronk Belvedere overlooking downtown Montreal, and man-made Beaver Lake (Lac aux Castors) with its recently renovated pavilion.
This is a list of National Historic Sites (French: Lieux historiques nationaux) in Montreal, Quebec and surrounding municipalities on the Island of Montreal.. As of 2018, there are 61 National Historic Sites in this region, [1] of which four (Lachine Canal, Louis-Joseph Papineau, Sir George-Étienne Cartier and The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site) are administered by Parks Canada ...
One of the paintings in the Mount Royal Chalet is a reproduction of La Terra de Hochelaga by Paul-Émile Borduas, a member of the Refus Global. The film Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017) depicts the arrival of the Cartier expedition at Hochelaga, as well as another fictionalized events occurring at the site of the village over the centuries.
Mount Royal (French: Mont-Royal [mɔ̃ ʁwajal], officially Town of Mount Royal, Ville Mont-Royal, abbreviated TMR, French: VMR) is an affluent on-island suburban town located on the northwest side of the eponymous Mount Royal, northwest of Downtown Montreal, on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada.
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