Canal de Soulanges
Canal de Soulanges, photo credit : Pierre Lahoud
Concours de projet pour l’aménagement culturel et paysager du Parc du canal de Soulanges
The MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges and the ministère de la Culture et des Communications are launching the Concours de projet pour l’aménagement culturel et paysager du Parc du canal de Soulanges. This national competition will allow the design of a vision of enhancement anchored in the environment and carried by the population. The canal de Soulanges, which in its time was a revolutionary construction in terms of hydraulics and technology, is today a remarkable landscape entity. To prepare, initiate and supervise the competition, the MRC retained the services of landscape architect Isabelle Giasson of the firm EVOQ Architecture. In the past, Ms. Giasson has directed some fifteen projects that have received awards of excellence for the enhancement of heritage sites, the urban revitalization of public areas and the implementation strategy for master plans.
Contest steps
Finalist teams
The winner of the contest
After deliberations by the eight-member jury, presided over by Philippe Lupien, professor at the UQAM School of Design, the team composed of Collectif Escargo in collaboration with Rousseau Lefebvre and Geneviève Murray, museologist and cultural project management consultant, won the competition with its proposal Passengers. Based on the theme of travel, Passengers is a 23-kilometre journey full of surprises that encourages visitors to return. Each stop becomes an adventure, a precious moment, an opportunity to learn an unusual fact, to see nature in a different way or to experience an amazing collective event.
The establishment of the Société de gestion du canal de Soulanges
In order to ensure the day-to-day management of the new Soulanges Canal Regional Park, the MRC established the Société de gestion du canal de Soulanges, a non-profit organization. The Société will manage operations such as the maintenance of the works and grounds, the supervision and organization of events, the application of the park’s regulations and will develop and implement the park’s master plan. The Board of Directors is composed of the general managers of the four municipalities crossed by the canal, as well as representatives from the cultural, tourism and river sectors. Mrs. Marianne Sigouin-Lebel of Développement Vaudreuil-Soulanges is the director.
Board of directors of the Parc du canal de Soulanges
Signature of the agreement with the ministère des Transports du Québec
The MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges, the ministère des Transports du Québec and the municipalities of Pointe-des-Cascades, Les Cèdres, Coteau-du-Lac and Les Coteaux have signed agreements that officially allow the transformation of the canla de Soulanges and its surroundings into a regional park. This gesture, mainly administrative, allows the MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges and its municipalities to realize more actions around the canal de Soulanges. It is following this agreement that it was possible to establish the regional park of the canal de Soulanges.
Le Parc du canal de Soulanges devient officiellement le projet signature de la MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges
La MRC de Vaudreuil-Soulanges est heureuse d’annoncer l’obtention d’une subvention de 2 515 835 $ du Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l’Habitation (MAMH) dans le cadre du Fonds régions et ruralités volet 3 – Projets « Signature innovation » des MRC. Ce financement, en plus des 545 000 $ investis par la MRC, servira à soutenir la mise sur pied et l’aménagement du nouveau Parc du canal de Soulanges. La participation financière du MAMH permettra entre autres de soutenir la création de l’organisme Parc du canal de Soulanges, la bonification des installations récréatives ainsi que l’implantation de nouvelles activités et infrastructures le long du canal et de la piste cyclable Soulanges. Ces actions seront guidées par le tout premier Plan d’aménagement culturel et paysager du Parc du canal de Soulanges, qui sera livré à l’été 2022, suite à un concours d’architecture mené en collaboration avec le ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec en 2021. Sous le nom Passagers, le plan et les projets qui en découleront promettent aux visiteurs et aux citoyens une expérience mémorable autour de la valorisation du patrimoine industriel, architectural, écologique et paysager.
Comité directeur de l'entente dans le cadre du FRR volet 3