Henry Aubin gives us a summary of the week in municipal corruption.
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Quebec is putting in $30 million to stimulate job creation in Montreal by training and retraining workers. Whenever I hear of schemes like this, I can only see most of the money going into make-work bureaucratic quangos and businesses that have made nice donations to the Liberal Party.
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A body was found today in a manhole in Saint-Michel and it’s probably that of Cinthia Toussaint, missing since Monday. Her ex has been arrested but there won’t be an autopsy before Tuesday.
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You can see on the view of Île Bizard above an example of the distinctive gouges golf courses make on the land. I mention this because in the view below of Maisonneuve Park it looks very much as if the southern part of the park had once been landscaped for a golf course.
I know there’s a municipal golf course east of Viau, but was the park itself once intended to be used for golf?
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Kate
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Martin Ujlaki
I seem to remember golf being played on either side of Viau in pre-Olympic days. Now only a nine hole course the municipal golf course was probably an 18 hole one, including part of what is now Parc Maisonneuve.
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Kate
Are you telling me that people used to drive up that section of Viau not knowing whether a line drive might zip through their window?
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Poutine is no longer limited to a late-night nosh after the bars close but it takes Toronto to create a poutine-eating contest and turn it into a trend. I hope when all the noise is over it’ll still be possible to drop into La Banquise for a simple poutine without red wine reduction or foie gras.
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Spacing has a guest piece about archaeological sites on Nuns’ Island although he asks some silly questions. Qui a entendu parler du roc irlandais? [...] Que sous la rue Bridge menant au pont Victoria sont enterrés des milliers d’Irlandais? It’s common knowledge, as far as I know – hardly the kind of lost memory the writer implies.
I have email saying that yes, it was a golf course till the 1970s and the construction of the Olympic park.