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Montreal Monday: Street sales, parades, and a 100 year old Hawthorn

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Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We’ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.

• Montreal’s abundance of street and garage sales this summer leads to amazing finds and palpable community spirit. For those who don’t speak French you’ll have to be satisfied with à‰mile Thomas‘ great photos of these impressive events.

• An unexpected parade staged by The Portuguese Association of Canada leads to bewilderment and joy for residents of a Montreal street.

• For this week’s Tree Tuesday, Bronwyn Chester gets down on all fours to examine the trunk of a (roughly) 100 year old Hawthorn tree she found in the garden of a 1950s Montreal home.

photo by à‰mile Thomas

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