Visitation Island Nature Park
Riverside heritage park with mill ruins, a former miller's house, and scenic lookouts over the rapids.
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This guide to Visitation Island Nature Park in Montreal begins in 1915, when a paper mill on the island caught fire and more than thirty families had reason to worry. It follows the mills that worked this stretch of river from the 1720s, the Walker family who ran the last of them, and the odd materials that went into their paper. Stand by the old dike overlooking the water, where the rusted machinery is still in view.
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