Place d'Youville

This guide to Place d'Youville in Old Montreal follows the buried Petite Riviere Saint-Pierre, the stream that gave the square's patchwork lawn its odd, stitched-together shape when landscape architects redesigned it in 2002. It traces the ground's five centuries of uses, from a hospital run by the Grey Nuns founded by Marguerite d'Youville to a market, a burned-out seat of government, and a fire station. Listen for where the honey locust allee traces the river's old bend toward the 1894 settlers' obelisk.