Group wants Montreal’s Mount Royal considered for UNESCO heritage designation
MONTREAL — A non-profit working to protect Montreal’s Mount Royal is making a push to have the famed mountain park considered a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
But first, the three-headed mountain located in the heart of Montreal island needs to be added to the federal government’s list of potential sites from which the world body can choose.
“Preliminary studies by experts in world heritage have advised the City of Montreal that there were some exceptional characteristics to Mount Royal,” Helene Panaioti, spokeswoman for the non-profit, said Thursday.
Les amis de la montagne (friends of the mountain) said it’s hoping to collect up to 30,000 signatures by the end of April to help bolster its case to the federal government, which is looking to update a list of potential Canadian world heritage sites.