A bad STM bus crash has happened in Dorval. CBC news at 7 just said two are dead, two badly injured. Twitter says the route is the 196.
Two cars were also involved, one of which was badly damaged, and the bus was tipped onto its side. No news yet on how the situation came about.
Photos of Craig Street in 1974! Rows of pawnshops, the window of Mendelson’s, another view – looking like something out of Down and Out in Paris and London – and Golden Musique.
Sweet find. Kindof underlines how antiseptic the street’s become though (except of course for Steve’s).
And Simon’s, on the west side of the Main.
I would love so much to be able to go into that office supply store.
Where is Craig street today?
Saint-Antoine. Wiki says the name changed in 1976.
What survived demolition for the Ville-Marie tunnel, anyhow. http://spacingmontreal.ca/2007/12/26/what-we-lost-to-the-ville-marie-expressway/
That photo set is amazing, thanks for sharing.
Max Pacioretty has signed a six-year extension with the Canadiens and is tweeting that he’s delighted to be here for the long haul.
Since everyone’s a photographer these days I’m noting the new Montréal à l’oeil contest being launched by the history museum.
A guy was stabbed on City Councillors Monday night and is in critical condition; I’m amused to see CTV describing the suspect as on the lam. And there were bullets over Fleury as somebody opened fire on a taxicab.
Not that I’m trying to stir up trouble, but a friend recently posted an Instagram of the street signs at the corner of Mayor and City Councillors, and I wondered how such flagrantly anglo street names have lingered into our era.
I am always amused when I have to talk to the cops and they try to pronounce the street name ‘Mayor’.
It inevitable descends into spelling M-A-I non c’est pas correct ca.
Kevin, somehow that reminds me of this story about strongman Louis Cyr, who worked as a cop in the late 19th century:
La loi du Square Chaboillez nous vient d’une anecdote concernant Louis Cyr, qui était policier de la Ville de Montréal (vers 1885). Un jour de canicule, il était en patrouille avec un de ses collègues dans le quartier de Saint-Henri-Pointe-Saint-Charles. Quelqu’un vient leur dire : le cheval de M. Tremblay est mort – M. Tremblay était le laitier du coin –. Sous la charge et la chaleur, son vieux cheval s’était écroulé. Les deux policiers se dirigent vers l’endroit et trouvent le cheval étendu. L’autre policier commence à écrire le constat : à 11 h 30, le cheval de M. Tremblay est tombé dans le carré Chaboillez. Il se retourne vers Louis Cyr, parce que la plaque de rue n’était pas visible : comment écrit-on Chaboillez ? Cyr se gratte le crâne, se penche, ramasse le cheval, traverse jusqu’au coin de l’autre rue : le cheval est mort dans la rue Notre-Dame.
Voilà la loi du carré Chaboillez. Plutôt que de faire ou de dire une bêtise, on contourne le problème.
A monoglot American has been chosen to head SNC-Lavalin, still reeling from charges that it was in bed with the Gaddafis in Libya. Pauline Marois is mad that he doesn’t speak French and insists this be his first priority – in fact, the Toronto Star says the appointment is making Quebecers mad generally. But I’m seeing less fuss in the Quebec media than in the Toronto ones so far.
No site on the web sends me to dictionary.com as often as the Montreal City Weblog. As often as I have read about language issues, I have never once seen the word “monoglot”. Thanks for expanding my vocabulary Kate. Since I am myself a “Monoglot American”, I will be looking for an opportunity to use the term.
That company is a multi-national with thousands of skeletons in its closet and Marois focuses on the guy not speaking french. If Quebec wants to be a nation, it’s really going to have to stop being so provincial.
Hear, hear, Bill. Thanks, Kate.
@ Walkerp: ” If Quebec wants to be a nation, it’s really going to have to stop being so provincial.”
You mean it’s going to have to allow its culture to be eroded by American money if it wants to be a nation? Is that what the rest of Canada did?
Qatzelok, not going to respond until you recognize my brilliant and pithy play on words there.
If SNC-Lavalin erodes the rich, centuries-old beautiful and frail Quebec culture, the beacon of civilization within the otherwise barren lands of North America, it doesn’t do it via the exec being an American monoglot.
I have it on good authority that the francophone engineers employed by SNC Lavalin often need interpreters when they travel to other French-speaking parts of the world ;)
The Globe and Mail looks at the “compression” imposed on the Gazette by owners Postmedia. The print version will be mostly analysis, while breaking news will be put on the web.
This is sad. I was about to say this was “the beginning of the end for newspapers” but it’s more like “the middle of the end”. As much as I like my laptop, smartphone, kindle, iPad etc, none of them come close to the same pleasant experience of diving into a thick stack of the days papers.
While I also love reading the paper, that the Gazette is the only English language newspaper in Montreal, the “cultural hub” of Anglo Quebec and yet has such consistently low standards of journalism and editorial content should serve as an embarrassment to every Anglo in this burg. It’s a crypto-fascist rag barely fit to line a birdcage.
@Ian
If you think the Gazette is crypto-fascist, I wonder what you believe about Le Devoir or Vigile.net.
The Gazette is sloppy and bordering on incompetent from time to time but I don’t see any evidence of a vast right wing conspiracy in the paper. I thought they practically tripped over themselves trying to be neutral during the student demonstrations. I do see some anti-francophone snark sneak through in the paper from time to time. Not sure if that is what passes for “crypto-fascist” in Quebec.
The editorial tone is very supportive of the Federal conservatives and always has been (heck, they have L. Ian Macdonald – a Mulroney apologist), but I will admit I did find them surprisingly sympathetic at times in their coverage of the student movement considering that they are generally extremely law-and-order. They also tend toward angryphone hand-wringing of a fairly pathetic variety, and appeals to business over social interests are pretty much par for the course, too. Overall, the quality of writing is shamefully inept & I do think their editorial bias is fairly obvious right-wing schmuckery of the highest order. I’m a bit surprised they’re still in business at all, and am quite unsurprised to hear they have a 480 million dollar debt.
Students marched Monday evening in a demo declared illegal from the beginning but tolerated until some windows were broken and the cops moved in. There was one arrest.
Ian 18:44 on 2012/08/14 Permalink
Wow, that is every public transit rider’s nightmare. I was only ever in one small accident (bus clipped a jaywalker who lived) but I was so shaken I forgot my bag and hat as I left the bus. I can only imagine how the driver feels, that’s nuts.
John 19:04 on 2012/08/14 Permalink
I used to drive down 55th on my way home from work and the traffic was always a little aggressive. Drivers would use it as an alternative route to the Dorval Circle to get to the 20. People often burned stop signs and I’d double check before going through an intersection.
From the pictures it looks like the car hit the bus and knocked it over but I guess we’ll have to see how it actually happened.
mare 21:55 on 2012/08/14 Permalink
These same busses ride 120 km/h on the highway in the 747 route. I can’t fathom the number of victims an accident with one of them will have when it happens on the 20. let’s hope it never will, but I don’t get why the STM doesn’t use a different kind of bus (more touring car) for this route.
Dhomas 11:57 on 2012/08/15 Permalink
“I can only imagine how the driver feels” Unfortunately, it appears the driver did not survive the crash: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/08/14/montreal-bus-crash-2-dead.html
Ian 12:47 on 2012/08/15 Permalink
Yes, I wrote that before the story was updated to mention the driver died. Thanks for pointing that out, though, you’re very helpful.
Dhomas 14:28 on 2012/08/16 Permalink
I realize now that I made my post after Kate had already posted that the driver had died. Oops!
Pierre 05:19 on 2012/08/17 Permalink
Very sad day for the families of the deceased. It’s not easy to flip a city bus on its side, they are heavy and wide. There had to have been a sudden and pronounced turn of the steering wheel of the bus. The bus driver sadly did not have his seat belt on…he was ejected via his side window then crushed by the bus. The bus driver must have tried hard to avoid the BMW and there’s a theory that its driver had some alcohol…a blood test was taken. How come there are no seat belts in buses for the passengers ?
Jen 19:37 on 2012/08/21 Permalink
How come no body talks about the passanger in the car that died. Ive read many reports of this accident and no one seems to remember her. She was an innocent victim as well she has family and they should be remembered in our prayers as well.
Kate 20:37 on 2012/08/21 Permalink
They do. Her name was Janet Stoddard Snider, she was 61, and her daughter was driving the car. As of Tuesday, when I’m responding to your comment, information has not been released about whether the daughter – Stacey Snider, 33 – was under the influence of alcohol or other drugs, or what her condition is.
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