Camillien-Houde joins with Remembrance Road near the summit to form a continuous route across Mount Royal. Montreal constructed the road up the northeastern slope of the mountain in the late 1950s amid a push to expand car infrastructure, Caron wrote.
The City of Montreal enlisted Olmsted to design a plan for its new Mount Royal Park in 1872, according to a city-commissioned 2018 study of the site written by historian Denise Caron.Ĭamillien-Houde Way, however, was not part of Olmsted's proposal. "I'm sure he would have something interesting to say about automobiles," Rybczynski continued. Olmsted died in 1903, before car use became widespread. "It's very tricky to try to figure out what a person like Olmsted would think of our world," Rybczynski said in a recent interview. But what the famous landscape artist would think of the closure of Camillien-Houde Way is unclear, says University of Pennsylvania professor emeritus and Olmsted biographer Witold Rybczynski. The park's architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, is responsible for some of the most celebrated public green spaces in North America, including New York's Central Park.
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The decision to close one of two roads up Mount Royal Park is the latest twist in a century-old debate over how to balance conservation of the wooded refuge in the city centre with the transportation needs of the metropolis. Montreal plans to fundamentally alter its lush, mountain playground.
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