Jean-Doré Beach

This guide to Jean-Dore Beach in Montreal traces a plan landscape architect Frederick Todd sketched in the 1920s, left unbuilt for sixty years until Mayor Jean Dore handed the job to the Montreal Botanical Garden's horticulturists. You'll hear how they set out to grow a swimmable beach using bulrushes, reeds and irises instead of chlorine, moving tons of sand through a single Montreal winter. Look at the marsh channels beside the sand and consider what each plant there is doing to the water.