Angrignon Park Angrignon Park ( is a large park in Montreal

Montreal

Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. It is located in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest

Le Sud-Ouest

Le Sud-Ouest is a borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Geography:Le Sud-Ouest is an amalgam of several neighbourhoods with highly distinct histories and identities, mainly with working-class and industrial origins, grouped around the Lachine Canal...

. Angrignon Park has a total area of 97 hectares.

The park is named for Jean-Baptiste Angrignon

Jean-Baptiste Angrignon

Jean-Baptiste Angrignon was a Canadian politician and a city councillor in Montreal, Quebec.-Background:He was born on March 2, 1875 in St-Placide, Quebec, grew up in the Deux-Montagnes, Basses-Laurentides area and was a merchant....

 (1875-1948) a long time city councillor in Côte Saint-Paul.

The park was inspired by the design of 19th century English garden

English garden

The English garden, also called English landscape park , is a style of Landscape garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical Garden à la française of the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe. The...

s. The park contains 20,000 trees, winding paths and a pond surrounded by cattails.

Angrignon Farm

Angrignon Farm is a petting zoo

Petting zoo

A petting zoo features a combination of domestic animals and some wild species that are docile enough to touch and feed. In addition to independent petting zoos, also called children's farms or petting farms, many general zoos contain a petting zoo...

 located in Angrignon Park just outside the Angrignon

Angrignon (Montreal Metro)

Angrignon is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...

 subway station

Montreal Metro

The Montreal Metro is a rubber-tired metro system, and the main form of public transportation underground in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada....

. Established in 1990 and administered by the Montreal Botanical Garden

Jardin botanique de Montréal

The Montreal Botanical Garden is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising of thematic gardens and greenhouses. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008 as it is considered to be one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent...

, it is home to over 20 species of farm animal.

The farm is currently closed and its reopening is uncertain: there is no plan to reopen it in 2011.

External links

• Network of Large Parks: Parc Angrignon