[Kilgore Trout]

salut tout le monde. it's been two months since my last montreal photothread. this can be blamed on the solid month of rain we had from mid-october to the week before last: twenty-nine days of rain. four o'clock sunsets. drowned leaves. you'll forgive me for wanting to hurl myself and my camera in front of an oncoming metro train.

but, as final fantasy sings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8PZ8-cpWc4), "montreal might eat its young / but montreal won't break us down." so take that, you old whore -- you haven't killed me yet.

when you're done with this thread, remember to go visit URBANPHOTO (http://www.urbanphoto.net) my collaborative blog with nearly twenty international contributors and daily updates.

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[Stanzmastertron3000]

holy fuck

[Wheelingman04]

I want to rape that city.:D :notacrook: :notacrook:

[agrant]

What's with all the good quality photos? ;)

Nice job. :tup:

[pdxtex]

your weather sounds like ours right now (portland, or). i feel like ive been living in a submarine for the last month. 37 and 61 are my favorite pics. nice job.

[keninhalifax]

O, KT, throw not yourself in front of a speeding metro train. Who else would provide the masses with such quality photodocumentaries?

I believe that Montréal is at its most beautiful in the autumn. You have certainly depicted that through these photos, Chris! Well done!

[PhilippeMtl]

Great photos!

KT, Do you will go to manifest to City Hall tomorrow evening against R-B Ave ?!

[kool maudit]

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despite everything,

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montreal is where it's at.

[Sacto]

Amazing collection in one set! Well done.

[ItsConanOBrien]

I'm very set on visiting Montreal within the next year, whether it be during winter, spring, or summer break.

Great work.

[ChrisLA]

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Baby got back!

Yes there is no doubt about it, Montreal has a lot of beautiful women. Too young for me, and yet in a way from the side she looks like one of my nieces

Man I haven't checked out a Montreal thread in a very long time. Its good to see my favorite Canadian city in its glorious fall colors.

[jcchii]

tremendous.
great work.

[BTTO]

Montreal's energy and personality are things you won't find anywhere else on the continent! mon pays ce n'est pas un pays sans mtl ;)

awesome photos

[Canasian]

Almost to good for words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Many thanks Kilgore! I was going to name my faves, but there are too many!!!
What's the situation with Av. du Parc?

[TheMeltyMan]

There does seem to be an abundance of people like this hovering around Ste Catherine.

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Great photos.

[Kilgore Trout]

KT, Do you will go to manifest to City Hall tomorrow evening against R-B Ave ?!


no, unfortunately, because i have to work all evening.

What's the situation with Av. du Parc?

back in october the mayor decided to rename it after former quebec premier robert bourassa. people were outraged, ostensibly for two reasons: the lack of public consultation (there was no warning beforehand of the mayor's decision); park avenue's heritage value (it refers to frederick law olmstead's mount royal park and it also has cultural and literary significance).

the reality, i think, is that park avenue is one of those names that have grown to resonate with people over time. it has been around since 1863 and it is as well-engrained in the consciousness of montrealers as a yonge street or a fifth avenue or a ste-catherine street. when people hear "park avenue," they think of their own personal history on the street, they think of the neighbourhoods that surround it, they think of greeks and jews and the other ethnic groups that made park avenue their home. (apparently, park avenue is canada's most famous street in greece.)

there's also a sense of popular struggle, too: park avenue is seen as a "people's street" and the unilateral decision to rename it, by a mayor who was friends with robert bourassa and who represents the outremont political elite, struck many as typically arrogant. recently, two events have only confirmed this feeling: the bourassa family's response has indicated that they feel entitled to the street, and the mayor's office sent out a letter that seemed to dismiss, inadvertantly, the whole opposition to the renaming as an issue for "neo-montrealers" who want to protect "their history."

city council will vote on the name change tomorrow. unusually, in a nod towards the divisiveness of the issue and the fact that he would lose a ton of political capital if park avenue was renamed, the mayor has allowed a free vote. nobody is expected to vote along party lines, which is astonishing in a city hall as rigidly partisan as montreal's. still, the vote will be close. it could go either way. i'm bracing myself for a major disappointment. let's hope i'm wrong.

[the pope]

me likey, though i'm not going to lie to you, 120 images is a bit much for my attention span.

[Kilgore Trout]

126, actually. you can always come back to the thread later... that's why the images are numbered, for easy referencing.

i don't like breaking my threads into installments because one or two of them will invariably be overlooked.

[BroncoCSU05]

nice won. i gotta get out to montreal sometime.

[TheMeltyMan]

There's an online petition http://causes.ca/duparc with some 20,000 "signatures" against the name change, but I doubt it'll serve as anything. I'm going to chain myself nude to a Parc Ave street sign if the motion passes in city council. Seems like the only effective way to battle those fat cats in city hall.

[WZ1]

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Its P'Diddy's Brother... LOL.. very nice shots..

[boden]

Smashing............:tup:

[shappy]

really great set.

wow, I can't believe the audacity of the mayor to try and change the name of a major street without public consultation. Hopefully things will work out.

as for the photos, I liked the fog shots and 17 the most.

and 6 caught my eye...
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similar, no?

[Alibaba]

great streetscape... thanks

i like this one

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is it for a particular passport or just any green pakistani passport ?
it may be for the blackmarket ?

[Agent Orange]

Glad you had enough sunny days to take these killer shots. The city looks alive as ever. I really liked the colors in 84, fog I'm guessing.

[ColDayMan]

Wonderful!

[hauntedheadnc]

Wonderful!

I'll second that. :notacrook:

[josef]

Awesome photos! I can't wait to visit Montreal next year.

[Wooster]

Wonderful. Montreal never ceases to amaze!

[scribeman]

Gorgeous pictures ^_^ I loved the night ones, especially 2.

[TheMeltyMan]

Awesome photos! I can't wait to visit Montreal next year.

Almost as nice as Philly. Almost.

[Serge]

I need to walk our city again, now I know.
It's bringing me back on earth, this thread is le total.

[habsfan]

this photothread is a masterpiece!

Great job KT!

[flar]

great set of photos!

[Kilgore Trout]

thanks for the comments.


similar, no?

surprisingly so, yes. your photo is taken from the old garment district on lower spadina, looking northeast towards bloor and yonge, right?

is it for a particular passport or just any green pakistani passport ?
it may be for the blackmarket ?

i kind of doubt it -- would a pakistani passport have much value on the black market? it doesn't exactly buy you a lot of travel privileges. a canadian passport, by contrast, lets you travel to many countries without a visa, and anyone who lives here for three years can become a citizen.

[edmontonoilers89]

Man I love that city. Great shots.

[shappy]

surprisingly so, yes. your photo is taken from the old garment district on lower spadina, looking northeast towards bloor and yonge, right?
yes, overlooking the Grange Park neighbourhood (not actually my photo, by the way). And your photo? I'm guessing McGill ghetto?

[tv-man]

holy fuck

Je ne saurais mieux dire ...

[WesternGulf]

Looking good.

[trueviking]

you are giving the rest of an inferiority complex....i especailly love #31.

this one is phenomenal...i almost wish it had a person in it....

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[Laurent]

dude, those shots are insane. I was amazed just looking at the first 4. Talk about getting the gloom right, and the shot above pointed out by trueviking gets the whole gist of it. Deep stuff

[Kilgore Trout]

thanks again.

yes, overlooking the Grange Park neighbourhood (not actually my photo, by the way). And your photo? I'm guessing McGill ghetto?

nope, it was taken from the cooper building on st. laurent near duluth, looking over the lower plateau towards sherbrooke metro. the ghetto isn't visible from that location; it's blocked by a bunch of apartment towers.

[Kilgore Trout]

this one is phenomenal...i almost wish it had a person in it....

if i were shooting a movie, i would have shot it on that night. it's actually very rare that montreal gets so foggy, which is why i headed out at 2am on a tuesday night to get those shots.

[TheMeltyMan]

That alley way seems familiar. I wanna say its off Marie-Anne near St. Denis.

Though I've been wrong everytime I assume something on here.

[Kilgore Trout]

no, it's off st. viateur between esplanade and jeanne-mance.

[MTL-514]

great set of pics, Kilgore

[Grumpy]

KT , I love this thread :slob:

[Elwood]

As usual a wonderful thread! I hope you plan do a photo show or publish an art book on Montreal - Canada's contemporary Kertez!

[Jollysnork]

Slide #31 is hauntingly like an Edward Hopper painting. Great job KT

[-GR2NY-]

Insane!

Motivation to get my @$$ around to posting My montreal stuff.

[BostomTom]

Boston native, McGill alumnus. It's been 5 years since I visited Montreal. Your pictures have convinced me to visit next summer no matter what. Even the gritty parts of Montreal are interesting in your pics.

[-AX-]

Malades photos!! God damn! I just discovered a new rooftop view!

[Hozay]

Awesome set!

[Kilgore Trout]

Malades photos!! God damn! I just discovered a new rooftop view!

there's so many to discover...


Boston native, McGill alumnus. It's been 5 years since I visited Montreal. Your pictures have convinced me to visit next summer no matter what. Even the gritty parts of Montreal are interesting in your pics.


i take it you were a student in the late 90s? i'm sure the atmosphere has changed a bit since then. no vacant storefronts at the very least.

[James Bond Agent 007]

Now I have that song going through my head . . .

Greeeeeenacres is the place to be . . .

[barneyg]

An update: city council voted for the name change to Robert-Bourassa Avenue (40 for, 22 against). Now this goes in front of the (provincial) Toponymy Commission. Opponents to the name change say they'll keep on fighting but from what I understand of the commission's role it's pretty much a done deal.

Note: I don't think there's much of an issue in Montreal that an important street should be named after Robert Bourassa somewhere, as he was one of the very few politicians in Quebec to be (generally) admired by both separatists and federalists alike. However as KT pointed out Ave. du Parc refers to the Mt. Royal park designed by Olmsted, thus the name of the street already has geographical/historical significance. As with most other places in Quebec, in Montreal there is a truckload of significant streets named after Roman Catholic saints (St-Urbain, St-Laurent, St-Joseph, St-Hubert, St-Denis, Ste-Catherine, St-Michel..). While it reflects Quebec's cultural heritage I don't think it'd be such a great deal if one of those was changed for Robert-Bourassa Ave.

[giovanni sasso]

30, 37, 84, 94, HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT HUT

that dude has one seriously large ampersand.

great show, trout.

sauvons avenue du parc. seriously.

[MolsonExport]

Stop. You are making me horribly homesick.

[urbanflyer]

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[habsfan]

An update: city council voted for the name change to Robert-Bourassa Avenue (40 for, 22 against). Now this goes in front of the (provincial) Toponymy Commission. Opponents to the name change say they'll keep on fighting but from what I understand of the commission's role it's pretty much a done deal.

Note: I don't think there's much of an issue in Montreal that an important street should be named after Robert Bourassa somewhere, as he was one of the very few politicians in Quebec to be (generally) admired by both separatists and federalists alike. However as KT pointed out Ave. du Parc refers to the Mt. Royal park designed by Olmsted, thus the name of the street already has geographical/historical significance. As with most other places in Quebec, in Montreal there is a truckload of significant streets named after Roman Catholic saints (St-Urbain, St-Laurent, St-Joseph, St-Hubert, St-Denis, Ste-Catherine, St-Michel..). While it reflects Quebec's cultural heritage I don't think it'd be such a great deal if one of those was changed for Robert-Bourassa Ave.

Totally agree with you on that! Park Avenue should stay park avenue. They should have changed St-Joseph to Robert Bourassa. the guy was raised on that street!

[Kilgore Trout]

yeah, st. joseph would have been a much greater choice -- but tremblay decided against it because of neighbourhood opposition! rumour has it that because he's an ex-alcoholic-turned-jesus-freak (as with most canadian politicians, his religious beliefs are not public) he did not want to rename a saint street.

but i'm resigned to robert bourassa avenue -- officially. i really hope that montrealers are like new yorkers, who still call avenue of the americans "6th avenue" even though it was renamed 60 years ago.

[Fabio]

Awesome pics man, I love all of them. They look alive.
One question, which church is this?
I think I never saw pics of it and where is it located?

thanks in advance.

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[PhilippeMtl]

I think it is the quebeco-portuguese roman church in Jarry St. near St.Denis. I assisted to a wedding here and it was pretty similar to this place.

[Kilgore Trout]

it's the st-jean-baptiste church on rachel and henri-julien. it's portuguese catholic and right in the heart of "little portugal."

[digitboy]

Honestly, I dont know what to say because no words can express how great this city really is...

The only thing I can say is that a thread like this one should never go away from this board !

KeeP on the Good Work Kilgore Trout ! :tup:

[TheMeltyMan]

I'm virtually right next to that church and a number of shops with portuguese food and their flag seems to be waving from half the buildings.

[KevinFromTexas]

Amazing shots there, KT.

Did you use a tripod on any of these? These are all fantastic by the way.
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[softee]

Top drawer old boy!

[Urban Zombie®]

Soopah-Doopah Splash! Nothing like the ole fall equinox. Those rooftop aerials went straight to the pleasure bone!

[Kilgore Trout]

kevin, yes, i did use a tripod for those shots. i got a lightweight metal tripod as a gift over the summer. it isn't that tall, but it's very portable.

[Segun]

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it was all a dream............

[Kilgore Trout]

i want to make sure this thread doesn't get pruned, so enjoy the rerun!

[Stanzmastertron3000]

still epic

[olga]

Thanks for the rerun! For some reason I never commented on this thread the first time it was up. So, time for my usual comment: Great thread - as always!

Favs: 2, 27, 30, 36, 68, 84, 94. :tup:

[zerokarma]

Excellent shots

[habsfan]

Damn do i ever love this man eating beast!

[Stanzmastertron3000]

i still view this thread enough that i'm replying again.

[Nouvellecosse]

Wow, I've had this thread saved offline for over a year, yet I've never actually expressed my appreciation for it. It's certainly one of the very few all-time classic MTL photo threads in my view.

[holladay]

Glorious! You are an all star!

I'm currently thinking about McGill for grad school. Threads like this convince me it's a great idea.

[Bergenser]

That was an awsome Montreal thread!
5 stars! ۞۞۞۞۞
:tup:

[MJay]

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[-AX-]

It's a pleasure to see this thread again!