Quai Alexandra & Around

This eastern-most pier in the port is home to the Iberville Passenger Terminal, the dock for cruise ships that ply the St Lawrence River as far as the Magdalen Islands out in the Gulf of St Lawrence.

Nearby the Parc des Écluses (Park of Locks) holds exhibitions of landscape architecture, shows and concerts. A bicycle path starts here and runs south-east along the pretty Canal de Lachine.

The abandoned 17-story-tall concrete silo on the south side of the locks is the last big relic of Montréal’s heyday as a grain port. On the promenade just west of Café des Éclusiers is the Silo Phone, a set of speakers and microphones hooked up to the grain silo across the locks. Say something and the sound will be transmitted into four of the huge grain chambers and bounced back at you.