To mark Montreal’s 375th anniversary, the Anciennes troupes militaires de Montréal will present a historical reenactment and set up a 17th and 18th-century military camp in two local parks this weekend and next.
In collaboration with the Lake St. Louis Historical Society, the Soldats Animateurs and the Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de Grâce borough, a military camp will be set up in Benny Park on Saturday, July 15 and Sunday, July 16. The following weekend, on Saturday, July 22 and Sunday, July 23, the camp will be located in Mackenzie-King Park.
Representatives of the Régiment de Carignan Salières, the Compagnie franche de la Marine, and the Régiment de Languedoc will be on site to welcome visitors to their camp, answer questions, and perform military manoeuvres and demonstrations with period firearms.
The historical society said, “Come learn about the lasting impact these troops had on the social and economic development of Canada as well as the history of Montreal and Quebec.”
Read about the history of these regiments in the announcement published in The Suburban.
Don’t look for this event on the Montreal375 website. If it’s there, it’s impossible to find. The borough website is equally quiet about the two weekends of military reenactments, or they make it just as hard to find.
