There is no official count but the city says Mount Royal Park hosts millions of visitors annually. “The biggest threat to the mountain is the way that we use our space,” he said.

In the 1920s, Montreal swapped land with the cemetery as it expanded Mount Royal Park and developed plans for a tramway on the mountain. In 1928, the two parties signed a notarized agreement.

People walk in Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Monday, October 12, 2020. Montreal has announced plans to expand its famous Mount Royal Park and close half of its main access road to vehicular traffic.

Still, unless Montreal’s next mayor backtracks, Mr. Ouimet’s sad death will have served as a catalyst for the remaking of Mount Royal into what it was always meant to be.

The closing of a road through Mount Royal Park is part of Valérie Plante’s ambitious project to get Montrealers on bikes. By Ian Austen Once a year, members of the professional cycling elite ...

Montreal plans to fundamentally alter its lush, mountain playground. The decision to close one of two roads up Mount Royal Park is the latest twist in a century-old debate over how to balance ...

Canada’s Town of Mount Royal describes itself on its municipal website as “a garden city in the heart of the island.” Catch-phrases aside, the 2.86-square-mile pocket of greater Montreal is ...

Certainly, they have reasons to hope for a win in Montreal and in Mount Royal. I think the entire Liberal caucus is nervous at this point,” said former Liberal advisor Jeremy Ghio.

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The Royal Montreal Golf Club lays claim to being the oldest golf club in North America. The club was founded by eight men in 1873, two years after Montreal made Mount Royal into a park and golfers ...

The City of Montreal enlisted Olmsted to design a plan for its new Mount Royal Park in 1872, according to a city-commissioned 2018 study of the site written by historian Denise Caron.