This map indicates the locations of several culturally and historically significant monuments in a particular section of the city of Montreal, represented here in a satellite photograph. Monuments that depict subjects related to Anglophone identity are numbered in red, while those that represent subjects of importance to Francophone identity are numbered in blue. The public squares that these monuments occupy are shaded in yellow, and the approximate locations of the fortified walls that once enclosed the original settlement of Montreal are denoted in blue.
This interactive guide aims to show how Montreal's Francophone and Anglophone populations have laid claim to specific sites within the public space of the city through the construction of symbolic monuments. Moreover, the map's focus on this particular segment of Montreal, in which the city's Downtown and Old Port districts intersect, is intended to relate to the historic development of the city around these two cultures and its observable manifestation in this representative area of the city. The colour coding of monuments into two categories within the map is intended to make visible the geographic concentration of these two identities within this segment of the city.