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Montreal's long lost golf course is in a place you wouldn't expect

Nov 20, 202529 min
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Episode description

You might not know it if you take a stroll through Maisonneuve Park today, but 50 years ago it was something completely different: a championship golf course that hosted the likes of pro golfers Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. CBC’s Douglas Gelevan tells the story of how the course became a park, after a pitched battle that pitted an unusual coalition of golfers and nature lovers against a larger-than-life mayor with Olympic-sized ambitions.

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