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Self-guided walking tours in Montreal

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Montreal is undeniably a city that has its own unique charm, from its mountainous surroundings, to its crowning waterfront location. The historic and modern blend seamlessly in the city. It is rich with culture and history, and it would be a waste to not go beyond the ‘McGill bubble’ and explore this incredible city. Here are two self-guided walking tours to explore Montreal.

Old Montreal (Vieux Montreal)

This tour explores Old Montreal. It begins at Canada’s furst bank, The Bank of Montreal, which was established in 1817. Across from the bank is Place d’Armes. The monument, dedicated to the city’s founders, is in the heart of the city and offers a striking historical panorama. The tour leads to two different churches: the Notre-Dame Basilica with its Gothic Revival architecture, and the Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, which translates to “Our Lady of Good Help.” In addition to walking past the churches from the 17th and 18th centuries, the tour will take one on a historical and political journey. Located on Rue Notre-Dame are the Old Courthouse and City Hall. For centuries, this is where different, and often conflicting, visions of the city have been championed, and where trials have been heard and decisions made. Three courthouses from different periods appear along the street and can be seen on the walk.

Additionally, the tour leads to the Pointe-à-Callière, Montreal’s Museum of Archaeology and History. The museum has collections of artifacts from First Nations that illustrate how various cultures coexisted and interacted around present-day Montreal. In addition, it showcases how the French and British regimes influenced the history of the territory over the years. The museum has been included in National Historic Sites of Canada since 1998, and the entrance fee is $12 for students.

The final destination is Old Port, which became the gateway to Canada in the early 17th century when French fur traders used it as a trading post. There are many events held throughout the year at Old Port, and it has become a tourist destination with a variety of cafés, restaurants, and shops. By following this route, one can learn more about Montreal’s rich history and explore one of Canada’s most historic towns. This tour can be completed in a couple hours; however, to fully enjoy the experience a whole day is recommended.

The Plateau (Le Plateau-Mont-Royal)

Many McGill students live in Plateau Mont-Royal, but rarely have time to explore their own neighbourhood. This self-guided tour explores the Plateau, beginning at the Mont-Royal metro station. The first part of the tour is Rue Saint-Denis. This street is one of the most animated and culturally diverse streets in Montreal. Lined with over 300 storekeepers and restaurants, it is a major north-south thoroughfare. While the map highlights some stores, many more retailers can be spotted on the strip, as well as cafés, shops, and various other service. There are two theaters on Saint-Denis in addition to a variety of bars and bakeries.

The street is currently lined with “La Grande Terrasse Rouge”—a long, continuous red terrasse that runs along the street between Rue Roy and Avenue Mont-Royal. The terrace has been built by the city to help compensate the owners of the street’s 109 businesses for the upcoming road work that is expected to last more than a year.

Branching off of Saint-Denis is Rue Duluth, which leads to Parc la Fontaine. This 40-hectare grassy gem is located in the center of the Plateau. The park includes two ponds with a fountain and waterfalls, an open-air theater, a cultural centre, sports fields, and tennis courts. It is a great spot to rest on the tour and a good place to enjoy the natural escape in the middle of the bustling city.

The final leg of the tour is on Boulevard Saint-Laurent. This commercial artery and cultural heritage site, nicknamed “The Main,” is packed with clubs, bars, boutiques, shops, and restaurants. As the map highlights, Schwartz’s, the famous smoked meat deli, is located along the street.

The tour ends at Saint-Louis Square, which has a water fountain in the centre and is surrounded by park benches and Victorian style residence buildings. This guided walk is perfect for those who want to explore the Plateau and experience the urban and natural duality. Furthermore, the Plateau is rich in French and European culture which is not often found in downtown Montreal. The tour can be completed in a couple hours; however, meandering through stores along Saint-Denis and exploring the Parc la Fontaine are highlights of the tour and require more time.

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Ensure your self-guided campus tours are built for success with these tried-and-true strategies.

For students, their families, and other supporters, campus tours carry a lot of influence when deciding where to go to school. In fact, over 85% of students consider a campus visit to be of considerable importance to their college search process . 

And though many higher education institutions offer guided tours that showcase good-to-know buildings and other campus staples, providing a self-guided option increases access — enabling students to easily explore campus, resources, and other opportunities whenever their schedule permits.

But the benefits of self-guided tours can and should extend far beyond enhanced convenience. This is something StudentBridge’s Campus Visit Experience does well. Besides helping institutions create impactful virtual tours, the solution also enables institutions to maximize self-guided visits through augmented reality (AR), turn-by-turn navigation, true personalization, and more. 

Whether you currently offer a self-guided option or are looking to add one to your lineup, here are three strategies to help optimize the experience and set your institution apart:

1. Make campus easily discoverable and navigable

Students and families who explore campus on their own still need directions and access to pertinent information they would have received with a tour guide. That’s why it’s important to ensure your campus is easily discoverable and navigable for all visitors. And while 3D and virtual maps can be helpful tools, they can fall short in delivering an impactful tour experience when used in isolation. Our Campus Visit Experience generates a logical tour route complete with turn-by-turn navigation so no one gets lost along the way. It also uses the interactive power of AR to bring campus to life. Students can dive deeper during their tour by simply pointing their phones at a point of interest they want to learn more about.

2. Allow for a truly personalized experience

Customization is at the heart of self-guided visits and a big draw for prospective students. Campus tours that enable visitors to choose what they see, how they see it, and when, deliver a more attractive and engaging experience. While our solution also allows students to choose from self-guided tours curated by the institution, students can create a more personalized tour by selecting relevant tags (set by the institution), such as academics, financial aid, and student life. In addition, students can further customize their visit by selecting the length of their tour to go at their own pace.

  3. Elevate more student voices

Visitors taking part in a guided tour usually only hear one student's experience (maybe a couple more if they stop random students on campus). But what if a prospective student doesn't find their guide relatable or wants to hear more from those with similar interests or studies? Amplifying student voices helps illustrate your institution's diversity, build a sense of community, and increase engagement. With the Campus Visit Experience, institutions can collect, organize, and manage a vast array of student-generated content. This content — including photos, videos, etc. — can then be added to relevant tour stops. The result? An authentic self-guided tour that tells the story of your institution from a multitude of perspectives.

Want to learn how you can turn these strategies into action for your institution? Let us show you how easy it is to quickly roll out impactful self-guided tours with the Campus Visit Experience.

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The content consists of ten self-guided online modules that the learner can go through at their own pace. It includes expert advice, shared experiences from participants , and solutions to the challenges of being a care partner in the context of dementia.

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Welcome to the University of Birmingham! This guide provides information about the University and its facilities to help you conduct your own self guided tour around the campus, download our campus map to get started. We hope you enjoy your visit to the University of Birmingham and you learn something new on your tour of our campus.

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The University of Birmingham has a long history of academic excellence and innovation and we are proud to have been the first civic university, where students from all religions and backgrounds were accepted on an equal basis. Our spirit of innovation continues today with groundbreaking research in areas ranging from cancer studies to gravitational waves. As well as receiving excellent teaching quality, the experience at Birmingham also equips students for life beyond the University. The University is consistently targeted by the top graduate employers who want to recruit our students for their programmes.

The University is a safe, friendly environment with a mix of sculptures, striking architecture, and a range of facilities and amenities for students, staff and visitors. Measuring over 12 acres, the Green Heart opens up the centre of campus providing a unique space for performances, socialising and studying. Within the University, our student community of over 33,000 students is composed of representatives from over 150 different countries. We are also a founder member of Universitas 21, a network of research-intensive universities conducting research projects around the world.

Today you will see some of the attractions of our campus, however, we’d also encourage you to explore the city centre to see everything that Birmingham has to offer. The University, with its own railway station, is only two stops and eight minutes from the city centre. 

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1. The start of your tour: the Aston Webb Building (R6) and the clock tower

We suggest you start the tour at the Aston Webb Building. This guide contains some highlights of our campus, each description matches the building numbers shown on the map. The tour will take you around the campus in a circular direction terminating at University railway station.

Looking directly across Chancellor’s Court, you see the red-brick Law Building (R1) and the architecturally distinctive Muirhead Tower (R21) rising up behind it. Following the Aston Webb Building round to your right, you will arrive at The Bramall music building (R12)

2. The Bramall (R12)

The Bramall was constructed and opened in 2012 to complete Joseph Chamberlain’s original architectural vision to create a semi-circle of red-brick buildings. It is the home of our Department of Music with state-of-the-art teaching, research, performance and rehearsal facilities appropriate to its reputation. This facility benefits everyone involved in the University’s music department while also being open for use by communities across the region, broadening the University’s impact beyond the students who study here.

The 450-seat auditorium, designed by the renowned acoustician Nicholas Edwards, is a flexible space, suitable for performances from solo voice and early music, to a full symphony orchestra. When not used for music, it is a high-profile location for drama and dance performance, and for lectures.

The next part of your journey around campus will take you to our Sports & Fitness Centre. Take the steps at the right-hand side of The Bramall down towards Ring Road South. Cross over the Ring Road and you will see University of Birmingham Sport & Fitness. To avoid the steps, walk towards University Road East and turn right at the end of this road onto the Ring Road and follow it to the bottom of the hill.

3. University of Birmingham Sport & Fitness (O7)

Sport & Fitness is the University of Birmingham’s state-of-the-art sports centre. The facility is home to Birmingham’s only 50-metre, Olympic-length swimming pool, a gym with over 200 stations, a climbing wall, an arena sports hall and six glass-backed squash courts. Birmingham has a proud sporting history. Every year, we have students who compete for the University at the top end of the British Universities and Colleges Sport (BUCS) league nationally and internationally. We even have a few students and graduates who have competed in the Olympics. This summer we will host the Squash and Hockey competitions for the upcoming Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries to support the most talented athletes financially, physically and mentally, in addition to providing access to a High Performance Centre. However, we also provide sporting opportunities for complete beginners to take up a new sport, to play casually and keep fit. Students can choose from a range of Sport & Fitness membership packages as well as a flexible exercise class programme.

Adjacent to Sport & Fitness, you can see the Bournbrook sports pitches. Many of our competitive sports teams train and play fixtures here, but they can also be booked by students for recreational sport. You can find the next stop by walking along the Ring Road towards East Gate, and you will find the Guild of Students (O2).

4. The Guild of Students (O1)

The Guild of Students is the students’ union, run by students, for students. It represents and involves all the University’s students, from undergraduate and postgraduate, to home and international. It provides services such as Job Skills and Volunteering, which helps students to find volunteering opportunities and part-time jobs during term-time and the holiday’s. There is also Worklink, which helps students find temporary jobs on campus and the Guild Advice Service, which offers impartial and confidential advice, information and representation on a range of issues from housing to wellbeing.

Both of these services exist as another level of support offered to students alongside the Aston Webb Student Hub. The Guild also supports the diverse student-led clubs and societies of which there are over 250 to choose from! In addition, The Guild manages a number of student-led communications platforms: campus TV and radio stations and Redbrick, the student newspaper. The Guild also organises large-scale annual social events such as Welcome Week to help new students settle in, the Vale Fireworks in November, and Graduation Ball in June. There are also weekly club and sports nights in the students’ union bar

Another place to see is Winterbourne House and Garden (G12), which can be found further down the main road (walking along Edgbaston Park Road with King Edward’s School on your right). This heritage attraction is set within seven acres of beautiful and tranquil botanic gardens with over 6,000 plant species from around the world. There is an admission charge although students are eligible for free entry. Alternatively, you could visit the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (R14) just over the road from the Guild, where admission is free. It is one of the world’s finest small art galleries, containing works from the 13th to the 20th centuries from Monet to Degas and offering another peaceful escape on campus for students. The Barber Institute also hosts music events and lectures and family events throughout the year.

On leaving the Guild, for the next stop head back towards the main campus, by following the road towards University Square. This route will take you past the Barber Institute on your right-hand side, later passing between the School of Mathematics in the Watson Building (R15) on your right and the Physics Department in the Poynting Building (R13) on your left.

5. Library (R30)

As you cross University Square, you will see the striking gold building that is the Main Library. This building opened in 2016 and is one of six University-owned libraries across the campus and region, with others based in departments such as the Barnes Library in the Medical School, or off campus such as at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon. The Main Library facility is open 24/7 during term time and offers robust Wi-Fi, a power point at every desk and there is a help desk should any issues arise.

There are more than 2 million books in the Main Library, as well as half a million electronic books and 50,000 electronic journals. Specialist subject advisers provide advice to students on finding and making effective use of the information and resources. There is also the Academic Skills Centre located in the Library, which offers support to students across the academic disciplines from mathematical technique to academic writing, in addition to the support available to students within their departments.

The area around the Library and the University Square has been transformed into the ‘Green Heart’, restoring the campus to its original design by Sir Aston Webb at the start of the 20th century with a large green open space. From here you can see across to the Arts Building (R16) and can again see the Muirhead Tower (R21) rising above campus. Directly next door to the library you can find University Centre (R23)

6. University Centre (R23)

University Centre houses a broad range of general amenities accessible to students. There is a bank, supermarket, hair salon and an optician. There are also numerous places to eat and drink, as well as somewhere to get your phone fixed and stock up on stationery and access to Royal Mail services.

Living, the University’s accommodation service, is also located in University Centre. They allocate University accommodation to students and can provide information about local private sector landlords, and can also help with checking rental contracts. If you have any questions about accommodation at Birmingham, this is the best place to visit to get information about the different types of accommodation available, costs and how to apply.

On leaving University Centre, turn right and cross the Ring Road. Walk up the hill to the Murray Learning Centre (R28). Before this, on your right you will pass the Collaborative Teaching Laboratory (R31). This facility brings together practical teaching activities across a broad range of science and engineering disciplines. This new purpose-built facility incorporates a wet lab, dry lab and e-lab and along with the newly opened engineering lab in the School of Engineering Building (Y3), enables us to revolutionise the way STEM subjects are taught at the University.

7. Murray Learning Centre (R28)

The Murray Learning Centre offers facilities to help students with independent study: computer clusters, printers and scanners. From here you can see the University railway station from which there are regular services into the city centre (Birmingham New Street station), a journey of only eight minutes. This station offers access to the rest of the country and the journey to London is around one-and-a-half hours. You can also see the Medical School (B1), which is across the main road from University station. The Medical School is a major international centre for education and research in medicine and medical sciences.

Your tour ends at this point, but if you wish to see some of our student accommodation, the Vale Village residences are about a 25-minute walk from where you are on the main campus. To walk to the Vale, head to East Gate, and walk along Edgbaston Park Road in a northerly direction (the top-right-hand corner of the map). You will come to ‘The Vale’ on your left, where some of our student residences are located in landscaped parkland overlooking a lake.

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Long before I had applied to this internship, I thought that a social justice self-guided tour would be a really interesting way for guests to engage with the galleries. As a Social Justice major at the university, I am instantly drawn to these themes in artwork. When I first saw Red April by Sam Gilliam and I knew that the piece needed to be included in this tour. 

Once I got the position as the Campus Engagement Coordinator, this was one of the projects that I really wanted to take on. However, I had not realized how much work goes into these tours. I needed to find items on display that connected with my theme, research the pieces and the artists, and write up the tour.

 My biggest challenge was coordinating this tour around the rotation of artworks in the gallery. We rotate artworks about every three months in order to preserve more light sensitive pieces. With the rate of the rotations, I needed to be able to plan how long the pieces I selected would be up in the galleries to correspond with my tour. 

Ultimately, my project came together and I could not be more proud of how it turned out! This was a valuable experience in terms of using both my major and my passion for the arts. Moreso, I hope that future editions of a Social Justice self-guided tour will be created and used at the museum. I know that not everyone instantly thinks of themes of social justice when looking at art, but I hope this tour helped put some pieces into a new perspective. 

Incase you were not able to grab a copy of the tour in person, the entire self-guided tour is featured in the photo gallery of this post! 

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