Last week I went, with some of my French group, on a walk in the Parc des Rapides at the foot of LaSalle. It's a little spit of land that juts out into the river and was used by Hydro Quebec to generate electricity at one point. It's now an ecological preserve with an enormous number of different fish and birds. It's hard to appreciate the force of the water in these pictures - let's just say you wouldn't want to fall in.
The main tenet of the talk that was given is that Montreal would probably not be the city it is if these rapids had not existed. They forced commerce - fur trade especially, to stop and go around - creating a place of commerce to handle the traffic.
If you look very carefully in the centre of this picture you will see a baby bird in it's nest.
I'm not sure this heron belonged this far north. And judging by the bird watchers with their enormous cameras, it was probably an unusual sighting.
A kingfisher on it's perch.
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