Jean Talon Market
Open-air produce market on a former lacrosse ground, alive with stalls of fruit, flowers and cheese.
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This guide to Jean Talon Market in Montreal opens with a puzzle: it carries the name of a seventeenth-century royal intendant who never set foot here, and wasn't called after him until decades after it opened as the plain Marche du Nord in 1933. It follows the market through the Depression-era jobs project that built it and the supermarket era that nearly closed it under mayor Jean Drapeau in the 1970s. Listen for who kept the stalls open when city hall would not.
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