Montreal Botanical Garden

Montreal Botanical Garden
The administration building
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45°33′26.00″N 73°33′24.50″W / 45.5572222°N 73.5568056°W / 45.5572222; -73.5568056
Date openedJune 9, 1931
Location4101 Sherbrooke Street East,
Montreal, Quebec
H1X 2B2
Land area75 hectares (190 acres)[1]
No. of species22,000[1]
Annual visitors695,404 (2011) including Insectarium[2]
Public transit access at Pie-IX station at Viau station
Websiteespacepourlavie.ca/en/botanical-garden
Flower covered Beetle in the Montreal Botanical Garden greenhouse, 2005

The Montreal Botanical Garden (French: Jardin botanique de Montréal) is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising 75 hectares (190 acres) of thematic gardens and greenhouses. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008 as it is considered to be one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent of its collections and facilities.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b "About the Botanical Garden". Montreal Botanical Garden. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  2. ^ "Bilan 2011" (PDF). Tourisme Montréal. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 3, 2014. Retrieved May 24, 2013.
  3. ^ "Montreal Botanical Garden". Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada. Parks Canada. Retrieved August 7, 2011.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ Montreal Botanical Garden. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved August 7, 2011.