Parc Lafontaine in Montreal, CA

Parc Lafontaine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is a 40-hectare park. It's the biggest park in Plateau Mont-Royal and has two linked ponds with a fountain and waterfalls.

Lafontaine Park also has soccer and baseball fields, picnic areas and playgrounds, wading pools, a dog park, pétanque, the Centre culturel Calixa-Lavallée, and the Théâtre de Verdure open-air venue.
The park is full of bike paths on its western and northern edges. There are several pieces of memorial statuary and numerous very large poplars.

Activity in the park doesn't stop in the winter. When there's snow on the ground, there's still plenty to do. The pond is cleared into a skating rink and a hockey rink. The park chalet becomes a changing room and snack bar. During the winter visitors may see lots of gray squirrels, including some albino ones.
Lafontaine Park was once known as Logan's Park. In 1845 it was owned by James Logan who rented it to the federal government for use as a military shooting range. This changed in 1889 when the city started landscaping the land and buying additional pieces of property adjacent to it.

In 1909 there was enough land for the city to create a sizable park. The park was named after Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, an author whose writing was instrumental in the confederation of Canada.
The open-air theater was added in the 1950s when the park was modernized. Up until 1989 Lafontaine Park had a childrens zoo called the Jardin des Merveilles.

Lafontaine Park is busiest on summer weekends. It's popular way for neighborhood locals to enjoy the outdoors because many of their high-end homes and flats have no yards or gardens.