How sports and recreation facilities are unequally spread across Montreal
CBC
Every day after school, kids gather at the Walkley Community Centre in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood to play soccer, basketball or take part in dance class.
But they have to be careful — the small space rented by the city used to be a McDonald's, and the restaurant's old playroom is lined with glass windows vulnerable to an errant throw or kick.
"You can just imagine a McDonald's without the seating arrangements — and that's our community centre," said Sandra Serrano, who runs the centre at the corner of Walkley and Côte Saint-Luc.
"We adapt our activities to what we can, based on the space that we have."
Serrano, though, dreams of a bigger space that can offer a more complete range of services to the many families who rely on it.
Her borough, Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, has the highest number of children of any in Montreal. There are nearly 27,000 kids aged 14 and under.
It also has among the lowest access to recreational facilities in the city, according to a CBC News analysis of data from the City of Montreal.
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