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Frédéric-Back Park
Frédéric-Back Park () is an urban park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is within the Saint-Michel environmental complex in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. The 192-hectare area originally was a limestone quarry, then a landfill. It is in the midst of a transformation that will see the majority of it become the park. A trail of encircles the center of the park. As of 2020, the park has a total area of 48 hectares. When the planned transformation is complete, the park will have an area of 153 hectares. This will make it one or the largest urban parks in the city of Montreal. Toponymy The land on which the park is located was used as a quarry by the Miron family for 60 years. In 1988, the City of Montreal acquired the site in order to make it a landfill site. In 1995, it renamed the site to be the Saint-Michel Environmental Complex because of its location in the Saint-Michel, Montreal, Saint-Michel neighborhood. As of 2020 some landfill activities s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Park
An urban park or metropolitan park, also known as a city park, municipal park (North America), public park, public open space, or municipal gardens (United Kingdom, UK), is a park or botanical garden in cities, densely populated suburbia and other municipal corporation, incorporated places that offers open space reserve, green space and places for recreation to residents and visitors. Urban parks are generally Landscape architecture, landscaped by design, instead of lands left in their natural state. The design, operation and maintenance, repair and operations, maintenance is usually done by government agencies, typically on the local government, local level, but may occasionally be contracted out to a park conservancy, "friends of" group, or private sector company. Depending on size, budget, and land features, which varies considerably among individual parks, common features include playgrounds, gardens, hiking, running, fitness trails or paths, bridle paths, sports fields and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
