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The remarkable white oak TMR.

This white oak (Quercus alba) of 398 Glengarry Ville Mont-Royal is an artifact of more than 200 years of history of the territory formerly covered the village of St Lawrence. In 2007 he was appointed as the most beautiful tree on private property in Ville Mont-Royal.

White oak, Quercus alba, is the rarest and most valuable of our native oaks. While red oak dominates on Mount Royal and the bur oak reveals itself in all its splendor in a few places including Senneville Road, White Oak, he seems absent, it looks like he has withdrawn from the territory. In terms of swamp white oak, it is found sporadically in Montreal.

At one time, quantity of white oak and bur oak in the valley of the Richelieu was sent to the tropics. These were highly valued for shipbuilding. There are only a few stands of white oak in Quebec. The finest, those of Gatineau Park in Ottawa, are protected.



The bark of white oak was used for tanning hides. In addition, Native Americans used them in traditional medicine to treat hemorrhoids, minor cuts, sinus congestion and other ills.


Near our beautiful tree, a house bi-centenary, the oldest town of Mount Royal. Located at the intersection of Street and Glengarry Blvd. Graham testifies she quietly then land. The stream of Cote-des-Neiges was sinking near the axis linking the village of Cote-des-Neiges in the St. Lawrence.

It remains to be seen if the white oak in question is a remnant of a woodland him even a vestige of the original forest which was simply whether it planted on agricultural land, possibly on land belonging to the owners of this historic house then.

Like this oak has a port whose branches were pushed to the four winds we assume it was planted because it came from a wooded area would be above its trunk and right. In addition, the acorns of this tree are edible ...

We still have not seen such Quercus alba on Montreal and its environs. The lover who sees this specimen tree for the first time into raptures. He will live an experience of great wealth. It will be a little secret, a little gem housed in depths of his being that he will share his sober friends (es).