Possibly useful list, via Zeke, of great Montreal comic shops.
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Richmond Street in the Point is to change its name to Rue de la Sucrerie, apparently to avoid confusion with a Lachine street of the same name. The sucrerie in question is the big old Redpath sugar factory in the area.
(I’m made a bit sad by this, because although I’ve never lived in the Point, my mother did, so names like Shearer, Richmond and Ropery were woven through the stories she used to tell about her childhood.)
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Chris
For us old fogies, that’s not Lachine, it’s Ville St Pierre! VSP had it’s 1st through 8th avenues renamed when it merged with Lachine. I’m happy it doesn’t have to suffer another renaming!
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Marc
Yes they were renamed after the VSP councillors who found themselves unemployed. Though I believe it is very tacky to name something after a living person.
Hmm…no more intersection of Richmond & Richardson in the Point.
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Chris
Marc, yes, I was aware of that. Disgusting. Though it wasn’t the case for Richmond, which has had that name for as long as I remember.
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Singlestar
I am under the impression that only part of Richmond is being changed, the rest would stay the same. Richmond is one of the few streets which had a similar series of street numbers both below and above the Lachine Canal. The below-numbers used to have an 0 as its first digit e.g. 0123 Richmond, but Post Offices and other agency computers do not recognise this, hence problems.
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A construction beam fell on a taxi Wednesday afternoon from the CHUM construction site. Nobody was hurt but the two passengers got a hell of a scare.
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Chris
For once a taxi accident that isn’t because the cabbie was driving like an idiot!
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CBC has a piece explaining the ins and outs of the digital TV transition. Fagstein has a blog piece on the subject, with plenty of additional details.
Of course if you don’t have a TV (ahem) this just sails past you.
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AMT has announced details of the deceptively named car-free week, September 19-23.
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Well respected actress Marthe Turgeon died on the weekend of lung cancer. She was 66.
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Pieuvre previews the rentrée musicale.
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Nice piece of the city’s history is revealed in the story of Gilford Street, which all agree was misnamed after a typo. But I wonder whether in 1876 the city could’ve countenanced naming a street after the controversial Joseph Guibord, whose story is told in the article. Maybe the “typo” wasn’t a mistake, but a way of memorializing Guibord on the sly. (There’s also an Avenue Joseph-Guibord in Saint-Michel, named in 1987 long after the Church’s grip here had slackened – rather a bleak little thoroughfare, but official.)
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Quebec is promising to announce its plans for the Îlot Voyageur this autumn. The Journal calls it “the wart of Montreal” which is not far off: see how it looks in this photo. But first we have to know whether it’s even safe to resume construction on bare concrete left open to the elements for four years. We’re all a bit antsy about concrete by now.
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Chris E
Whenever I see this building, it always makes me think of the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. The difference being that even the North koreans have gotten around to finishing their building while the Îlot Voyageur still sits there waiting.
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Kate
To be fair, construction began on the Ryugyong Hotel in 1987 and the Wikipedia article implies the building is still far from being open for business. At least the Îlot Voyageur can’t claim such a long history.
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Excavations have caused an infestation of rats in a neighbourhood just east of Lafontaine Park.
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Ian
TIL there are 2 rats for each Montrealer. How cosmopolitan!
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Jean Béliveau is celebrating his 80th birthday today.
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Metro has a brief except from Ulysse’s Marcher à Montréal suggesting three wooded areas to visit in the Montreal area.
Charles 01:07 on 2011/09/02 Permalink
Looks like he forgot Port de tête on Mont-Royal ave east between St-Denis and St-Laurent which has recently expanded it’s comic book section (looks like they took over Fichtre’s inventory). Renaud-Bray also has a good collection of european comics.