Marché Atwater
Art Deco food hall beside a canal, its clock tower named for the water engineer who once ran the street it stands on.
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This guide to Marché Atwater in Montreal starts with the man whose name hangs over the entrance despite never touching a fish or a wheel of cheese: Edwin Atwater, a city alderman who spent the 1850s hiring engineer Thomas Keefer to drag Montreal's drinking water out of the dark ages. You'll hear how the street named for him, decades later, became the site of an Art Deco market built during the Great Depression, and how its third-floor hall doubled as wartime storage and a rally ground. Listen while walking the market beside the Lachine Canal that made his career.
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