Responding to its citizen's requests, the city of Montreal created 76 community gardens with 6,400 allotments since 1975. These serve some 10,000 people a year, which makes the program one of the most significant in North America. After 29 years of concerted effort on the part of both gardeners and the city administration, the program is now well-established, publicly-accessible, and increasingly ecologically-oriented.
(Since the merge in 2002, the number of gardens within Montreal is now 97 community gardens and 8195 allotments.)