Son of Dragon's Hairball Traditional Geocache

Found on the shores of Verdun in Arthur Therrien Park.

Trouver sur les rives de Verdun dans le Parc Arthur-Therrien.

Original Content / Contenu original : MANIFESTO - Canadian Geocoin - Idefix TB - Batman pin - Java U badge holder - 2 sets of creature pills - Twin Soccer ball key-chain - Warner Bros. Silvester key-chain - Compass key-chain - Canadian House of Commune coin (old) - Shilling replica from the Halifax Citadel - LOG BOOK and pencil, those don’t last very long, so bring your own.

This cache was set to coincide with the Event cache GCJG2B of August 14 2004, “A Montreal Event”.

Borough of Verdun
Population: 60 598 -- Borough's area: 9,9 km2

Verdun was given its name in 1671, by Zacharie Dupuis, then acting governor of Montréal, to whom the Sulpicians had granted jurisdiction over the land. Dupuis named the territory "Verdun", after Notre-Dame de Saverdun, his native village in the South of France. On November 12, 1673, he donated the "Fief de Verdun" to the sisters of the Congrégation de Notre-Dame.

Verdun owes its urban development to the population overflow, consisting mainly of working-class families, from downtown at the beginning of the century. Benefiting from the industrial development of the Lachine Canal, the city steadily grew. Verdun also encompasses the "Nuns' Island". Used as agricultural land until the mid 1960s, Île des Sœurs is now a very desirable residential area, a gem in the St. Lawrence.

Although it is primarily residential, Verdun is also home to the service sector businesses that employ most of the 15,000 people who work within its borders. The Île des Sœurs neighbourhood houses large industrial concerns such as Honeywell and Kodak.