{"id":6126,"date":"2009-08-17T11:42:34","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T15:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=6126"},"modified":"2009-08-18T08:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T12:44:27","slug":"montreal-monday-bixi-love-yellow-birch-trees-and-then-and-now-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/08\/17\/montreal-monday-bixi-love-yellow-birch-trees-and-then-and-now-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Monday: Bixi love, yellow birch trees and then-and-now photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spacingmontreal\/3799995824\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3538\/3799995824_85cb1f0c13.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/spacing.ca\/images\/feature-graphics\/feature-montreal-monday.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"63\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&bull; This week, Bronwyn Chester&#8217;s <em>Tree Tuesday<\/em> features Quebec&#8217;s national tree: <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/13\/le-mardi-des-arbres-bleu-blanc-jaune\/#more-3705\">the yellow birch<\/a>. Although normally considered a forest tree that tends to grow further north, yellow birches can be found growing on the McGill campus and on the east side of Mount Royal [ <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.ca\/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=fr&amp;u=https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/13\/le-mardi-des-arbres-bleu-blanc-jaune\/&amp;ei=U26JSpXDPIrEMMOR_NsE&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;resnum=2&amp;ct=result&amp;prev=\/search%3Fq%3Dle%2Bmardi%2Bdes%2Barbres%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26hs%3Dsx3\">translated into english<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>&bull; <em>&#8220;Bixi love&#8221;: the act of finding love through Bixi<\/em>.\u00a0 Whether Montrealers are falling in love with Bixi or Bixi is helping Montrealers fall in love,<em><\/em> Emile Thomas&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/page\/2\/\">Love + Bixi<\/a> captures the mood.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Guillaume St-Jean&#8217;s Then-and-Now photos found scattered among <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/\">Spacing Montreal<\/a> many posts are capturing the transformation of Montreal&#8217;s many historic buildings.\u00a0 From the new <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/07\/31\/montage-du-jour-la-place-bonaventure-pres-de-la-rue-%C2%ABde-linspecteur%C2%BB\/\">public exteriors of buildings<\/a> and refurbished interiors of churchs [ <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/07\/montage-du-jour-la-chapelle-du-sacre-coeur-de-la-basilique-notre-dame-2\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/07\/montage-du-jour-la-chapelle-du-sacre-coeur-de-la-basilique-notre-dame\/\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/11\/montage-du-jour-la-chapelle-du-sacre-coeur-de-la-basilique-notre-dame-4\/\">3<\/a> ] to the more private renovations of century-old <em>maisons<\/em> [ <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/15\/montage-du-jour-la-maison-sparrow\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/14\/montage-du-jour-la-maison-thompson-2\/\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2009\/08\/09\/montage-du-jour-la-maison-hubert-lacroix\/\">3<\/a> ], Guillaume&#8217;s shots provide a fantastic peak into the ongoing evolution of Montreal&#8217;s built environment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Emile Thomas<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. We&#8217;ll keep an eye open for topics and discussions that are pertinent to current public space issues in Toronto. &bull; This week, Bronwyn Chester&#8217;s Tree Tuesday features Quebec&#8217;s national tree: the yellow birch. Although normally considered a forest tree<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/08\/17\/montreal-monday-bixi-love-yellow-birch-trees-and-then-and-now-photos\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Montreal Monday: Bixi love, yellow birch trees and then-and-now photos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[9982,12200,11218,12920,38,12921,819,19],"class_list":["post-6126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spacing","tag-bronwyn-chester","tag-emile-thomas","tag-guillaume-st-jean","tag-mcgill-campus","tag-montreal","tag-montrealers-fall","tag-quebec","tag-toronto"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Montreal Monday: Bixi love, yellow birch trees and then-and-now photos - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/08\/17\/montreal-monday-bixi-love-yellow-birch-trees-and-then-and-now-photos\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Montreal Monday: Bixi love, yellow birch trees and then-and-now photos - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Each Monday, we bring you some of the popular posts from our sister blog, Spacing Montreal. 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