Comments on: Montreal Geography Trivia No. 28

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:35:34 +0000

I went looking for inspriation on Flickr. “Fontaine Montréal” gives a lot of false positives (mostly on “parc la fontaine”) and scrolling through the results for “fountain montreal” you would believe there were only some six fountains in Montreal (Place Vauquelin, Place Montreal-Trust, Carrée Saint-Louis, Centre de commerce mondiale, Complexe Desjardins and Place d’Armes).

Apparently I needed to look up “matching skirt” in my keyword search.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amanova/268031954/

So, my final answer is “Place des Arts” (*locks in his answer*)

By: Dumitru Erhan

Dumitru Erhan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:33:45 +0000

The thing at the Old Port?

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:41:44 +0000

Place des Arts waterfall?

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:19:00 +0000

Nope.

I’ve added a hint to alleviate the straw-pulling.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:07:41 +0000

From the Chinese Garden at the Botanical Gardens?
I’m grabbing at straws here…

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:43:44 +0000

It can’t be the little waterfall outside the original plaza of the Palais des congres, across from Guy Favreau, can it? Don’t even think that’s turned on anymore,…

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:16:36 +0000

Wow, I thought this would be one of the easiest ones ever. Keep the guesses coming.

By: Kate M.

Kate M. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:24:20 +0000

Peel Basin.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:02:44 +0000

I’m guessing my answer was wrong, given that there seems to be no update.

Second guess, the fountain outside of Jean-Drapeau station on île Sainte-Hélène, where there are a number of water jets that shoot out horizontally into a large basin.
http://maps.google.ca/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.511674,-73.533795&spn=0.002662,0.004699&t=h&z=18

I don’t think that’s it, but it’s all else I can think of at the moment.

By: Karine

Karine — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 03:00:48 +0000

@Tim: OMG I go by La Joute every single day not knowing that’s what I’m looking at… My guess is it’s another broken water main.

By: DAVE ID

DAVE ID — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:57:01 +0000

What TIM said.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:45:58 +0000

That’s an easy one: it’s the town hall luxury bathroom.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:35:34 +0000

Riopelle’s La Joute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Joute

By: Christelle

Christelle — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:20:40 +0000

A fountain :P