Maisonneuve Park

This guide to Maisonneuve Park in Montreal follows a century-long tug-of-war over who this land is for. It traces the eighty-hectare golf course that opened in 1910, grew to thirty-six holes under architect Albert Murray, and served both the city's English-speaking elite and everyday public golfers, until a mayor decided the city needed the ground more for the Olympic Park next door. It also tracks the 236 community garden plots that took root nearby, run each summer by a committee the gardeners elect themselves, and the Maisonneuve Market that residents reopened after the city shut it down. Listen for how each of these threads answers the same question: whose park is this.