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The Red Elm or Indian Elm Street Cedar Crescent.

On the west side of Westmount is a street called Cedar Crescent and is very quiet.
On this street, at the foot of a public staircase, you can hear a runoff from a storm drain. This is probably the line of a former creek which wound the neighborhood and became the famous river St. Peter.

At the time just one side of the mountain there was to see a swamp ash, cedar and elm, all kinds of elms and especially red elm. This is possibly a descendant of one of these elms that can be admired on the street at Michel Bibaud.

This is the largest specimen of Ulmus rubra (slippery elm) we had the chance to see this day. Its silhouette is reminiscent of its cousin, the American elm but differs somewhat. It is mainly gray-brown bark cracked and very rough leaves that characterizes it.

Its common name is English or slippery elm slippery elm. It would be more accurate to translate slippery elm bark since mid-June to early July it is easy to peel. With this inner bark that contains coumarin, an aromatic substance, made into a powder which is marketed and that is a survival food that Native Americans taught the settlers.
It is said that George Washington's troops survived thanks to the latter for a dozen days during the American Revolution.


When I was fired a few shots this magnificent specimen last Tuesday I had the chance to meet Michel Therrien, gardener, who worked on the grounds of the property in question. He said he measured the circumference of this remarkable tree that is 14 feet or 4.27 m.

It is a little smaller than Elmo, the largest elm in New England that has a circumference of 4.77 meters. The champion of the state of Nebraska is 17 feet in circumference.

Among other English names there indian elm which informs us about the importance of this tree for Native Americans who pulled a rope from the fiber of the inner bark and with which they treated many ailments.