Via Expo 67 fan Julie Bélanger on Facebook, the obit for Marie-Claire Drapeau, widow of the sainted Jean, who died a month ago, but whose notices were only published this week.
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Kate
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Kate
The new cruise terminal is now open to the public and we’re instructed here that “Il ne faudra d’ailleurs plus parler de la jetée Alexandra, mais du Grand Quai du Port de Montréal.”
So, the new terminal on the Alexandra pier: the bills are not all paid, but the party has started.
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Kate
It’s not clear why the BAnQ didn’t manage to find a single acceptable candidate for its top role for a year, but the government’s imposition of Jean-Louis Roy has steamed the chairman of the board so much that he’s quit. I’m wondering how politics is playing into this and what Roy’s ideas are for the future of the library.
Update: I read up this Le Devoir view of the story and it really doesn’t seem to be politics. After a lifetime watching Quebec politics I tend to assume it’s going to be a fracture along the lines of “the library is nationalist and this new guy is a federalist” (or vice versa) but it doesn’t seem to be that. What remains unclear is how the library managed not to find a suitable candidate after a year’s searching. Le Devoir also clarifies that there was a split a few years ago between the role of chairman of the board and the president. Maybe it doesn’t need two people at the top?
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Kate
The city is alert to the risk of random attacks against crowds with concrete blocks protecting street fairs, but they had already started doing these things last year.
I went to the Mont-Royal fair Saturday – perfect weather, a good crowd, but if security was up it was being done discreetly, as it should. The concrete blocks felt like a basic visual barrier against motor traffic, not like a siege wall.
I’ve also updated my old street fairs listing and if anyone has knowledge of events I have not included, please drop me a line. (The intro was initially written for montreal.com so has a rather detached tourism-y tone.)
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Kate
Although it’s some considerable distance from town, we’ll be hearing a lot about the G7 this week, so Radio-Canada has an explainer. Also explained on Wikipedia. Even the National Assembly may shut down for a couple of days as Quebec City goes into a kind of lockdown.
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Kate
Good story about two mounted policewomen who chased down and caught a suspect who had just committed a burglary and had the evidence on him.
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Kate
An apartment fire in Lachine Saturday night killed one person, but even the gender of the victim was impossible to determine. Text and video on the TVA link.
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Kate
It’s a perfect day for the Tour de l’île – sunny but not too hot. La Presse reports it in terms of problems for motor traffic. TVA interviews a couple of participants.
On this cycling week CBC reports on an irate cyclist hit with the new fines – $381 for a couple of missing reflectors.
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Kate
The first Sunday of the month is going to be free at some museums in Quebec including seven in Montreal. Item says it’s for Quebec residents so I expect they’ll ask to see relevant ID. The program has already begun.
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Kate
This weekend’s history piece is about the Chateau cinema at the corner of St-Denis and Bélanger as a vignette of the history of Petite-Patrie, which didn’t used to be called that (the area was called St-Édouard after the parish). The cinema has been an evangelical church now for years.
On Le 15-18 this week the historian looked at Ville Jacques-Cartier, a suburb that sprang up fast in response to the completion of the bridge in 1930. For the first time, workers could commute from south-shore homes to jobs in town.
I should also note the archives of this feature in which Jean-François Nadeau covers a range of curious topics from Montreal history.
Radio-Canada also pulled up some archive material this week to mark the 35 years of the Palais de justice.
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