La Fontaine Park
Landscaped city park with twin ponds, a romantic footbridge and a lit fountain around a nineteenth-century military drill ground.
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This guide to La Fontaine Park in Montreal opens on the night of April 26, 1849, when a mob surged toward the home of Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine, the colony's first francophone premier, furious over a law he had just pushed through compensating families for property wrecked in the 1837 rebellion. It follows what the crowd did to his house that night and the political career he went on to build afterward, before this old military drill ground was renamed in his honor in 1901. Listen for how the calm of today's ponds and paddleboats sits atop that history.
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