Vieux-Port de Montréal
Riverside park of docks and promenades, where a mothballed grain silo still looms over the water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Old Port of Montreal traces how geography turned these docks into the transfer point for prairie wheat bound for Europe, and how a run of grain elevators built by the Grand Trunk Railway starting in 1903 grew into the harbor that led the world in grain shipped by 1928. It follows Silo Number Five through its decades of expansion and its closing in 1996, and asks what became of the half-kilometre concrete hulk still standing at the water's edge. Walk west along the promenade to see it for yourself.
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