La Fontaine Park

Located in the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, this park is surrounded by the quadrilateral of rue Sherbrooke, avenue du Parc-La Fontaine, rue Rachel and avenue Papineau.
With its many trees, two ponds and resident animals, it’s a wonderful place to take a breather.
There are playgrounds for children, a pétanque court, a ball field, tennis courts and more.
In winter, Parc La Fontaine is open to a wide range of outdoor activities, including skating on one of the ponds.
This park is also a privileged place for l‛affirmation of Montreal’s, Quebec’s and Canada’s francophone identity.
It also bears witness to both French roots and the constant ties that unite France with Montreal and Quebec.
This French presence has been expressed in a variety of ways since the park’s creation in 1889, and thereafter periodically right up to the present day, both in the park’s layout and in several monuments and works of public art.
Over the years, several monuments have adorned the park.
Some are still there: the monument to Dollard des Ormeaux (1920), to French-Canadian soldiers who died in the 1914-18 war (1931), and to Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (1930).
More recently, a statue of Félix Leclerc (1990) and the‛obelisk dedicated to Charles-De-Gaulle (1990) have been erected.

The park was named in 1901 after Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (1807-1864), lawyer, politician, Prime Minister of the United Province of Canada and judge.