Ticket to ride

[randy_byers]

Well, Sharee and I have our plane tickets for Montréal, so I guess we're really going to do this. We'll be arriving late on Saturday the 1st, playing tourist in the city for the next few days, then checking in to the Delta Centre Ville on the 6th for the World Science Fiction Convention. I've wanted to go to Montréal for a long time, so this is pretty exciting. Anybody have any recommendations for what to see and do there? The Jardin Botanique is already on the list. It looks like the convention is being held right next door to the old part of the city, Vieux-Montréal.

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[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

Would that be the Olmsted brothers? They also designed some parks in Seattle.

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

I was thinking about their father, Frederick Law Olmsted, whose Wikipedia page also credits him with some Seatle park designs, although it seems like his sons did the bulk of the work there. I wasn't aware of the work his sons did until now.

[randy-byers.livejournal.com]

I've just been reminded that the Olmsted brothers designed part of the University of Washington campus when the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition was held here in 1909. The hundredth anniversary of the expo is being commemorated this year. (According to Wikipedia, it was primarily Frederick's stepson, John Charles Olmsted.)

[trinfaneb.livejournal.com]

A talented family :)