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1. Mont Saint Hilaire (140 participant cap)

Departure time: 1:30 pm
Return time: 6:30 pm

A 45-minute bus ride will take you to Mont Saint Hilaire in the Montérégie region of Québec. We will be led on a one-hour tour of the on-site research facilities and enjoy a hike through McGill’s Gault Nature Reserve to the top of the mountain where you will have a view over the Saint Lawrence plain (~ 2-hours, 5km). This biosphere reserve has the last remnants of old-growth deciduous forest in Québec and is home to rare species as well as many human communities. Guides will provide information about geology, ecology, and history of the mountain and the region. We will also discuss the place-based research done in collaboration with local communities in this region.

The reserve is not wheelchair accessible but electric golf carts are available for the tour. Participants with reduced mobility must be able to exit their wheelchair to sit in the golf cart. The hike, an easy to moderate hike with some elevation gain, is not accessible to wheelchairs.

 

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2. Mont Royal (180 participant cap)

Departure time: 2:00 pm
Return time: 4:00 pm or later

This 2-hour, 4-km guided hike will start from the front door of the conference centre and head to the top of Mont Royal, the small mountain that occupies such an important historical and ecological place in Montreal that locals simply call it “the Mountain”. Learn about the history of this urban green space as well as its ecology while you enjoy the 200-hectare urban park. Guides will also discuss some of the urban ecology research happening in and around Montreal. You will be able to follow the guide back down the mountain after the hike or relax on top with friends and walk down at your own pace.

This is an easy hike with some elevation gain; the trail is suitable for most wheelchairs.

 

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3. Verger Petits et Fils (92 participant cap)

Departure time: 2:00 pm
Return time: 6:00 pm

A 45-minute bus ride will take you to this family-owned apple orchard where you will be enchanted by the exceptional views and 50,000 apple trees. Relax while you learn about some of the place-based, social-ecological research in the Montéregie region of Québec and the importance of pollination and apple orchards in this charming landscape. The trip finishes with an opportunity to taste 5 local ciders produced by the orchard.

People in wheelchairs will be able to enjoy the tasting, the shop, and a beautiful view of the orchards.

 

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4. Montreal Seeds of Good Anthropocenes visit (50 participant cap)

Departure time: 1:30 pm
Return time: 6:30 pm or later

Our guides will bring you on the Montréal metro system to Batiment 7, a community gathering place in the Pointe Saint-Charles neighbourhood of Montréal, where you will learn about this “Seed of a Good Anthropocene”. Pointe-Saint-Charles is an old industrial neighbourhood of Montreal with important French-Canadian, Irish, Scots, English as well as Polish and Ukrainian populations and a long-history of social activism. The neighbourhood is where the first housing cooperatives and the first community health clinics emerged in Montreal. Batiment 7 is an emblematic example of sustained grassroot citizen resistance to claim an old industrial site for the community, which was otherwise going to be developed into a casino.

After years of struggle, the building and its surroundings are now collectively managed and host a series of workshops and community spaces including arts spaces, a bike repair and recycling coop, a social grocery, a micro-brewery, an urban farm, and a foundry. The tour will also showcase the blue-green alley around the building and its role in reducing flash flooding. Total tour time is 3 hours after a ~ 35min metro or bus ride (this time estimate includes ~15min walk from metro to site visit). Those who wish, can stay on at the Sans-Taverne craft brewery cooperative after the tour.

 

Contact us
If you have any questions, please contact pecs2024@agoraopus3.com

Registration period
March 01, 2024 - 08:00 until August 1, 2024 - 23:30

 

Conference Venue: Centre Mont-Royal, 2200, Rue Mansfield, Montréal, QC, Canada, H3A 3R8