A human head has been found in one of the Angrignon Park ponds; this piece immediately suggests the likelihood it’s the missing head of Jun Lin, but tests will have to be made to confirm this. They also say it was information from the Magnotta case that led police to inspect the pond.
La Presse clarifies that the head was by the water, but not in it.
Sarah Gilbert sets out to see Eaton’s fabled ninth floor but finds it’s shut away from the public eye and impossible to get a glimpse of.
It’s too bad, it was a beautiful dining room.
If people had showed this kind of interest in it when it was in business….
For those really interested in seeing it there is an NFB film called “Les dames du 9eme ”
(the ladies from the 9th floor ).Pretty sure its still available to buy.i believe its about an hour long.
Youre welcome.
It’s such a tragedy. If they had at least included the kitchen it might have been open today; maybe. But without that, it’ll never be a restaurant serving amazing chicken pot pie, among other things, again.
erydan, I don’t think it was closed because it was unpopular, but because Eaton’s itself was going down the drain and there was no mechanism for keeping the resto open while the store was being closed down.
montrealfilmguy, thanks for the mention of the film. I’ve seen segments of it – it’s a good documentary. NFB link.
Funny thing, I know I was brought to the 9th floor at least once by my godmother, but I don’t really remember it. Might’ve been too young when she brought me there to appreciate the decor.
I managed to sneak up there a few times a few years ago. I never managed to get into the restaurant itself (locked up tight) but I did admire the decorations in the lobby and the views of downtown out the windows. People trying to sneak up there now would have a harder time, the way to get up there used to be to walk into the (unalarmed) fire exit stairways and climb, these days the doors have cameras on them and are (supposedly – have not verified myself) alarmed.
There is a picture on Wikipedia. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/EatonsNinthFloorMontreal.JPG/300px-EatonsNinthFloorMontreal.JPG It was beautiful. Went to lunch there a few times. I also had to climb up to the 10th floor with invoices when Canada Post was on strike.
I wrote a brief piece for OpenFile Saturday about Walk the region after talking to Alanah Heffez, who was then just embarking on the three-day adventure. They’re accompanied by two Radio-Canada journalists this year, who are taking photos and pinning them to this map.
Rue Masson says they will lunch in Vieux-Rosemont today.
Stores dealing in used appliances and furniture do well around moving day. I also see people with pickup trucks generally rummaging around piles of discarded things this time of year, even people with shopping bags poking at piles of rejecta.
I wonder what’s the most valuable thing someone’s chucked out on moving day here that was picked up and resold by someone else.
The Journal also says 80,000 people in Quebec are moving house this weekend. Radio-Canada says 200,000 households, a number closer to previous years, and also talks about tenant group FRAPRU which is taking moving day as an opportunity to press the government for more social housing.
Quel Avenir tells us Montreal is on a list of ten places to do urban sketching – then he tells us he’s off on vacation for a few weeks – to draw.
montrealfilmguy 01:57 on 2012/07/02 Permalink
Oh FFS,i just love how the La presse article tries to fill up space with inane numbers and arbitrary facts such as “Angrignon park is a 2-hour walk or 15 minute drive from where Magnotta rented the apartment in NDG “.
Kate 08:15 on 2012/07/02 Permalink
True, but it did evoke for me the image of Magnotta (allegedly) getting on the metro and riding out to Angrignon alongside other passengers who could’ve had no idea what he was carrying in his bag. No report has suggested he owned a car.
craig 09:08 on 2012/07/02 Permalink
I love the way the Ottawa Sun (Pierre Karl Péladeau) reports that “the head was found on the shore of a lake in Angrignon park, a few kilometres south of Magnotta’s apartment.”
It’s Angrignon Park, not Angrignon park, and I’d hardly call it a lake.
What a crappy paper ever since PKP got his grubby hands on it.
qatzelok 10:27 on 2012/07/02 Permalink
@ the article: “Angrignon park is a 2-hour walk or 15 minute drive from where Magnotta rented the apartment in NDG “
It seems like every lifestyle choice – including porn-star/cannibal – requires a car.
ant6n 11:09 on 2012/07/02 Permalink
@qatzelok
Or, North American readers measure distances in car-minutes, and don’t understand kilometres.
walkerp 22:54 on 2012/07/02 Permalink
I hope it is his head, for many reasons, one being that I had this slightly irrational fear that it could be anywhere and that I might actually stumble upon it in one of my walks.
Kate 01:15 on 2012/07/03 Permalink
Also if it isn’t poor Jun Lin’s head, we have another problem.