Maisonneuve Market

This guide to Maisonneuve Market in Montreal starts with the towering unnamed bronze statue of a farmer's wife, called La Fermiere, that has stood at the market's entrance since 1915. It traces how the market itself was designed by architect Marius Dufresne, opened in 1914, was later shuttered for decades, and was saved by neighbours who refused to let it die. Look for her basket of vegetables and the granite plinth where, even now, her name is nowhere to be found.