20 June Louis Rubenstein Memorial Water Fountain

Our party of four set off from the Shaka Cafe, water bottles on the ready, and headed for our first destination , the new University of Montreal campus.

It is impressive, spacious and sadly empty as a result of the pandemic. The area, semi landscaped with serious condo construction underway, is worth seeing at its early development stage, because in five years you won’t recognize it.

Exiting the campus via Van Horne we rode to the Angus yards , checking out a portion of the two way bike path on Christophe Colomb.

There we passed through a shell of an old railway structure, two brick walls seemingly held up by an SAQ outlet. Quebec Sait Faire!  After a cafe break,

we rode along Rachel to Av Mont Royal, recently closed to traffic for the summer and another benefit of our current situation.

We then paused at the Louis Rubenstein Memorial Water Fountain at the old Fletcher’s Field on Parc Av.

 By the Water Fountain we also spoke to a few Inuit about the art work on the Canadian Ten Dollar bill.

before riding over the mountain to Westmount, NDG and Montreal West for a most welcome cool down.

Karl Kron