Yuzhi Qiao: Day Four: Maisonneuve Park

There are plenty of plants in the Maisonneuve Park, for examples, a lot of conifer forest. There is also straw hut of first nation. I must go to the park!

Conifer Forest.

First nation

There are some straw huts which were the home where the first nation lived in the immemorial time. They are the Cree, Algonquin, Attikamek, Innu and Naskapi in the vast conifer forest dominated by black spruce, fir and birch trees.

Under a veil of leaves lies the corn ear, essential to the lives of the Iroquoians. The Huron-Wendat and Mohawk always had many uses for corn, as far back as memory goes. They used both the kernels and the plant: empty stalks were converted into fishing floats; leaves and husks were made into dolls, masks, mats, moccasins and baskets; and kernels were transformed into bread that was cooked in the ashes of a fire, or used to make a very elaborate corn stew known as hominy or sagamité.

Montreal is located in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Lowlands. There are a lot of fertile soil in the region. The temperature and precipitation are very suitable for the corn culture.