Jeanne-Mance Park

This guide to Jeanne-Mance Park in Montreal traces the land from a farmer named Fletcher's cattle pasture through decades as Fletcher's Field, used for military drills, lacrosse and golf. It follows the 1910 push to rename the field after Jeanne Mance, the seventeenth-century founder of Montreal's first hospital, and the slow decades before the city made it official. Listen for how long the old name lingered at the park's gate near Mount Royal and Park Avenues.