Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Walking Outremont’s parks
On a warm day—or, even better, on a warm night—I like to walk through Outremont. It’s one of Montreal’s most picturesque boroughs...
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Photo du jour: Kien Vinh
St. Laurent near La Gauchetière. July 9, 2008
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Photo du jour: Boxes
La Gauchetière at St. Laurent. July 9, 2008
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Photo du jour: Canal bridge
I have a confession: if I were riding my bike and I came across this bridge, I probably wouldn’t dismount either. Lachine Canal at the Atwater...
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Photo du jour: Delivery
La Gauchetière near St. Urbain. July 9, 2008
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Sidewalk-cleaning graffiti
Guerilla advertising in the form of sidewalk stencils is nothing new—Julie’s post below details the city of Portland’s lawsuit against...
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Photo du jour: Lonely House
Towers Street in the downtown west end. July 1, 2008
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Dancing in the streets
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-2EuNC5ejk[/youtube] One of my favourite things about summer in Montreal is the sheer abundance of street...
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Photo(s) du jour: Red Light District
Back in the winter, when Montreal was a completely different city, I interviewed lighting designer Axel Morgenthaler about his work in the Quartier des...
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Photo du jour: Colonial
Montreal is often compared to Boston, in the kind of good twin/evil twin way, but it’s rare to find any sort of American colonial architecture here...
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Photo du jour: Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen on Bellechasse near Christophe-Colomb in Rosemont. May 17, 2008
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Photo du jour: Monsieur Hot Dog
Old diner sign, now gone, on Sherbrooke near Concordia’s Loyola campus. March 29, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf