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Dorchester Square is a large public park at the centre of downtown Montreal, a green and leafy space ringed by historic and modern buildings that serves as a gathering place, a starting point for city tours and a quiet refuge amid the surrounding bustle. The square occupies ground that was once a Catholic cemetery, used in the first half of the nineteenth century and including victims of cholera epidemics, before the burials were relocated and the land was laid out as a public square in the latt...