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• Kate 10:15 on 2021-10-23 Permalink | Reply  

  I didn’t think this was new, but Projet is promising an Irish park which is essentially an excuse for moving the Black Rock, the whole point of which is that it should not be moved.

  What are they going to call it? Parc Bernard-Landry?

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  • steph 10:51 on 2021-10-23 Permalink

    The article says that the Irish have been asking for this park for years. So, which TRUE Irish should we listen to?

  • Kate 11:20 on 2021-10-23 Permalink

    The “Irish community” is one guy. He’s prepared to be a mouthpiece for an agreement that it’s OK to move the Rock for convenience, so long as there’s a bit of land set aside for it and some ceremonial hocus-pocus done.

  • Kevin 17:14 on 2021-10-23 Permalink

    They’re not moving the rock. They’re moving the Hydro Quebec station, then moving the road.

  • Kate 17:35 on 2021-10-23 Permalink

    I hope so.

  • Tim S. 09:37 on 2021-10-24 Permalink

    I know what the Rock is because my father would point it out every time we drove past it to get on the Victoria. Obviously a park would be more dignified, but I wonder if the Rock would also be more easily forgotten in the middle of a park in a otherwise unappealing district.

  • Kate 09:52 on 2021-10-24 Permalink

    

    There’s a CTV piece giving details about Projet’s intentions to move the road, then create a park which would make the Rock more accessible. The Rock has the odd property of being in plain sight for anyone using the bridge, while being weirdly inaccessible. You’ve got to get near it on foot, usually by hiking down from Wellington along pedestrian-hostile Bridge Street, then sprint across when there’s a gap in traffic. Having a car wouldn’t help. I’ve done it, as the photo attests, but it isn’t convenient at all.

    I have a strong feeling that moving the access road to a bridge is simply not going to happen – especially with the impending closure of the tunnel limiting South Shore access soon.

    Later thought: how has this road gone on being called Bridge Street rather than rue du Pont?

  • DeWolf 20:09 on 2021-10-24 Permalink

    There are enough English street names left in Montreal that I’m actually curious as to what leads them to be converted into French. The practice is very inconsistent. Rue Basin was recently changed to rue des Bassins, but we still have rue Bridge, rue University, rue King, rue Queen… and of course Pine Avenue was changed to avenue des Pins back in the 1960s, but Cedar (named at the same time as Pine) was left untouched.

    There are also streets like Queen Mary, which were translated in the past (chemin de la Reine-Marie), but whose English names have since been upheld by the OQLF for various socio-historical reasons.

  • Kate 11:26 on 2021-10-25 Permalink

    I’ve always thought “City Councillors” was pretty glaring, right there downtown, but there it is.

    Chemin de la Reine-Marie somehow never stuck, likewise the suggestion that it was meant to refer to the Virgin Mary rather than to the wife of King George V.

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