Other stuff

Central Park-style apartment building.

Museum with Lyonel Feininger exhibit we went to.
http://www.artkabinett.com/ak-file/canadians-view-first-ever-feininger-exhibit

Carol and the Congress Center

Sculpture

Mailbox

Spring

Montreal is farther north than Minneapolis and their spring was a little behind ours. Trees just begining to bud.

... and up in the hills not at all.

Quebecois nationalism

Ad for burgers (American) and poutine -- french fries and gravy -- (a local Quebecois dish). Notice the two flags (American and Quebecois) but no Canadian Maple Leaf. From the (limited) information we had, however, Quebecois nationalism has lost steam recently and there are no new referendums planned to vote for Quebec independence.

Statues

My lovely wife Carol posing next to a statue of poet Robert Burns. (Place Ville-Marie, Downtown)

The red tape over the mouth was left over from university student protests against school fee increases. The red symbolizes the debt the students will be in with the new increases I guess. (Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde (Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral), Downtown)

Churches

The steeple above was originally made of stone but was too heavy (3,500,000 lbs) to be supported by the tower so was replaced with an aluminum one built to look just like the old stone steeple.
I'd have never known it was fake if they hadn't told me! (Christ Church, Downtown)

Basilique Notre-Dame (above) in the old town (Vieux-Montreal) is French Catholic, not English protestant like the first church (Christ Church).
Blue lights were a little cheezy, maybe, but pretty.

Above is the oldest church in Montreal (Chapelle de Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours, near the port)

The Church at Dawson College in Westmont. (didn't go inside.)

Church (chapel) at Maison-mere des Soeurs Grises (Grey nuns) across from our hotel. Built in the 19th century, it is the center of a very grand and very Old World single-building complex. The five-story tall, hundreds of feet long, C-shaped building had a hospital, orphanage and "Motherhouse". It's now partly a college and not open to the public as far as we could tell.

Grafitti

In some places the grafitti here was like New York.

French

Montreal is famous for its "language police" who make sure any signs or public notices not in French are sufficiently smaller than those in French not be in violation of Montreal law. Supposedly, even in France the stop signs say "stop" not "arret". The language issue used to be a big controversy in Canada but isn't so much any more, or so we read.

Plateau

Carol liked this plaque of the Virgin Mother. (It's next to the ground floor door in the picture on the left.) (This was in the "Plateau Mont Royal" district)

Mont Royal

View from Kondiaronk Lookout on Mont Royal (for which Montreal is named).

From the lookout we walked east through the park and cut through the woods. These blue flowers are called Siberian Squill I think. (We have them in our yard too.)