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For over three centuries of history, each founding people marked
its territoriy around a symbolic axis: Saint
Lawrence boulevard, "The Main", demarcation line between
the two "worlds" and starting point for the numbering
of addresses. French and English each brought their own way of building
homes.
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 The
square
Let's go to St-Louis Square. Traditionally English, the
square is a little place surrounded by lovely houses and rows
of trees. In the center, a statue or fountain dominates a
carpet of grass with diagonal walkways, also bordered by trees.
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 The
Urban parc
The urban park also comes from the English garden tradition.
The fresh air space for the neighbourhood, it often has many separateactivity
areas: playground for the children, walkways, waterways. It is bordered
by magnificent houses such as those on L'Esplanade in front of Jeanne
Mance Park, or those on Parc-Lafontaine street in front of the park
of the same name.
The Rural House...
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