A curious tourist attraction, “Havre Beneath the Streets” was originally a series of buildings constructed to house railroad employees. The flimsy wooden shacks were eventually destroyed by fire, and the occupants had little choice but to use the steam tunnels built beneath the buildings as temporary shelters More tunnels were dug to connect the basement abodes to one another, creating a warren of underground housing.
Eventually the shacks were rebuilt, but the railroad decided to keep its Chinese track layers housed in the underground “city.” Now a small tourist attraction, one can visit the site and view the remnants of what once served as a sort of Chinese Laundromat, a brothel with several small rusting iron beds, and three opium dens.
