Continuing with the nature and the city discussion, here are some photos recently taken on a trip to Montreal of the Urban Forest outside the city’s McCord Museum.
More information is available through links found here, visually intriguing in person for sure, and the museum itself has much to offer.
“The splendour and misery of urban life”
Michèle Dagenais, Université de Montréal
[What makes this brief video stand out is the inclusion of original black-and-white 19th-century images…]
At the end of the 19th century urbanization intensified. Cities and their factories were drawing people from the countryside like magnets: the land could no longer support all of them. In addition, immigrants were pouring into Canada from all over, hoping to start a new life….
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