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Lonely Planet review

This park immediately southeast of Square Dorchester is best known for its monument of John A Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, who addressed the maiden session of parliament in Montréal. It's guarded by four bronze British lions and seven bronze figures holding shields of the seven Canadian provinces of the time.

The two cannons around the base were captured in the Crimean War; if you look closely you'll see the dual-headed eagle of Czar Nicholas 1. The statue was decapitated by vandals in 1992 and the head vanished for two years.

The overpass over boul René-Lévesque leads to the Marriott Château Champlain Hotel, known as the 'cheese grater' for its windows shaped like half-moons.