When Montrealers went camping in the city

For decades Montrealers would return to nature not in far-off places distant from the city, but rather right in the city itself.
   Highways in the 1930s and 40s were far less developed than they are today and cars travel was far more perilous.
  These factors helped create a market for urban camping grounds in places that are now all filled with buildings. Here are a few.
   Maple Leaf cabins were at 6070 Cote de Liesse, just south of where the Ikea now stands.

 Hotel La Barre is still there at 2019 Taschereau Blvd, rebuilt and now called the Motel Royal La Barre

 The Cheerio Cabins was to be found on the south side of St. James just west of Cavendish, around where the large Provigo grocery store now thrives.





 This one sat near the St. Lawrence River around where Lafleur and Lasalle Blvd intersect.


  The Montreal Tourist Cabins sat on the south side of Sherbrooke,  just east of Langelier.

  River and Wellington - where the Verdun Canadian Tire now sits, is the site of the Verdun Tourist Camp that was around in the 1940s.