Kondiaronk Belvedere
Stone terrace atop a mountain, offering sweeping city and river views beside a Depression-era Beaux-Arts chalet.
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This guide to the Kondiaronk Belvedere in Montreal follows two histories meeting on one mountain terrace: the Depression-era relief project that put unemployed men to work raising a Beaux-Arts chalet under mayor Camillien Houde in 1932, and the Huron chief Kondiaronk whose name the terrace carries. You'll hear how Kondiaronk spent his life doing anything but standing still, brokering peace between the French and dozens of Indigenous nations before his death in 1701. Listen for how that peace connects to a view built two centuries later.
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