Domaine Saint-Paul

Domaine St-Paul, located on the southern tip ofNun’s Island, is a 24-hectare wooded municipal park with an impressive array of flora and fauna.
Interpretation trails totalling 2.5 km have been laid out.
There’s also the 5-hectare Lac des Battures, hidden between the trees.
This wild woodland is the last of its kind on the south-western part of the island of Montreal.
The most important plant communities are American basswood maple and Pennsylvania ash.
There are also a few sugar maple-hickory stands and poplar groves.
Hairy wild rye, a grass considered very rare in Quebec, can be found along several trails.
Other species of precarious status include garlic of Canada, cinna reed, floerkea, cardamine laciniata, hairy sedge and Virginia claytonia.
In terms of avifauna, 41 bird species have nested in the Domaine St-Paul woodland over the past 20 years.
Mainly edge species, but also a few strigiform species such as the short-eared owl and the spotted screech-owl.
Over a hundred other species migrate, visit or hibernate on Nun’s Island.
You can see great blue herons, and even mallards and American wigeons.