Dollard-Des Ormeaux — Dollard-Des Ormeaux Map Poster & Print

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Dollard-Des Ormeaux Map Poster & Print

Dollard-Des Ormeaux is a residential city on the western part of the Island of Montreal. It belongs to the area locals call the West Island. Unlike Montreal's older grid, much of it was laid out in the postwar decades, and the map shows it: curving streets, crescents and cul-de-sacs that loop back on themselves. Between them sit a few straight arterial roads that carry traffic across the island.

The city takes its name from Adam Dollard des Ormeaux, a seventeenth-century figure of New France remembered for the 1660 fight at Long Sault. In modern times it was merged into Montreal in 2002. Residents then voted to reconstitute it, and it became an independent municipality again in 2006. Today it is mostly quiet streets, schools and green space.

A Dollard-Des Ormeaux map poster turns that suburban plan into an unexpectedly graphic image. The loops and dead ends form patterns like fingerprints, and the long arterial roads cut through them in straight lines. Centennial Park adds an open area with water at its heart, a natural focal point in the composition.