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Rohinton Ghandhi: November 27th, 2008 To City Noise Editors, I have recently begun writing articles for the Verdun Messenger's new English Corner segment. They cover Verdun's history and the people within it. I thought your group......

in response to: Verdun Neon by CE

anon (75-94-49-3.boi.clearwire-dns.net): I think the coutries with the best city skylines on averge are 1 United States (New York, Los Angleles, Dallas, Houston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Seattle, and so many more!!! 2 Canada (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

magan: I'm from montreal all a long st cathrine you have strip clubs and hoes all over your best bet is to stay in the middle of the orange line and green line of the metro......

in response to: Red Light District by CE

Brian Walker: Wow, Margo-murray. I wonder if we knew each other? My family lived in Benny Farm from 1953-1957, we then moved to Texas. I have fond memories of the place, we had a second floor......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Chris : First of all Toronto is hated on by all Canadians outside of the Golden Horse Shoe. One of the main reasons why is,....... the Toronto Maple Losers!!!!!!!!. It's a hockey country and the leafs used......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

EvilGentleman: This was one of the more educational posts that I have done, at least in the sense that I learned a lot from doing this post. When I initially shot the photos, I was focused on......

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Adam Enright: There is No Game like the Good Ol' Montreal Hockey Riot! A city whose hockey passions create a constant hunger for battling peace and the status quo. [[http://www.progressivewebdesign.ca/hockeyriots.html]] by Adam Enright I was thrilled to read about......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Oldfart: This isn't a hockey tradition. Montreal loves its riots ever since the Quebec legislature passed the Rebellion Losses Bill in 1849 and an English mob torched the parliament buildings, which used to be here. Since then......

in response to: Hockey Victory Riot by EvilGentleman

Fiona Lambert: Robert: I'm actually 41 years old, I just thought that rue Rufus Rockhead was an unusual name for a street. My boyfriend used to live in Montreal (Pointe St. Charles) to be exact, he told me......

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Born and Raised in NYC: Here's a little Montreal story: I remember very well as a little boy being with my family in Montreal at a flower expo located in the old Expo fair grounds ... I was standing with......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

Fiona Lambert: Who the Hell is Rufus Rockhead, sounds like a characture from the Flinstones., but an interesting name for a street, only in good old Montreal....

in response to: Rufus Rockhead Street by EvilGentleman

Paul: I live in downtown Toronto and I think our downtown is quite impressive, with the coloured lights on the Skydome and CN Tower it really enhances the night view and the Royal Bank Plaza glitters......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

Doug in California: A native Montrealer, I lived in the building at 4120 Benny Ave. from 1946 to 1952, when my dad got transferred to Ontario. I went to Kensington School up to grade 3 before we......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: El, since they were government-funded homes originally intended for the families of veterans returning from WWII, it is most unfortunate that the government decided to stop funding them. If you look at the comments in the......

in response to: The Destruction of Benny Farm by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: fctlmn, thank you for sharing some memories of Montreal that I am too young to have. Aqueduct Street is now known as Rue Lucien l'Allier, and has a metro station of the same name just down......

in response to: Milk Bottle Water Tower by EvilGentleman

coolopolis.blogspot.com: Photos were all taken from the Maritime Plaza Hotel, northwest corner of Guy and Dorchester (the latter street has since been renamed after a cursed separatist politician). The third photo is of the Desjardins seafood......

in response to: Montreal Circa 1979 by CE

EvilGentleman: Finally dropped below freezing again last night. It's now -4 out there. Oh well, only 2 1/2 months until REAL spring... And in the Arctic, I had whole years where the highest temperature was 19. I......

in response to: Spring in January? by Elicar

ortid: hotel nelson old montreal...

in response to: Old Montreal by ortid

EvilGentleman: Wow! Just wow! Great post, TK. As far as the "20/20 hindsight" inspections of other structures **after** the collapse goes, we have the same thing happening here. After the overpass collapse that killed 5 people in September......

in response to: Bridge Removal by Tyfoid Kid

Elicar: In a morbid way, it's nice to hear EvilG rant again, if ya know what I mean! EvilG, In Ontario, we pay a health care premium. I am not sure about the amount now as tax......

in response to: Windows Health Care by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I still come back and look over this article every once in a while. This time, I followed a link on Wikipedia leading here. The memories have begun to fade, yet that last shot, the one......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: My hometown is {Kahnawake}, across the {Mercier Bridge} from {Lasalle}. I have been living in {Dorval} for the last two years, and I have also lived in {Lachine} and {Verdun}. I am also very familiar......

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I still laugh when I hear Montrealers referring to the ski hills an hour to the North as "Up North", when the phrase always makes me think of my old homes in the Arctic. To......

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Three weeks ago, my van was hit by a man from Toronto driving the wrong way down {Sainte-Catherine} Street in Montreal. I was standing outside the bar having a cigarette and drinking a Coke (I never,......

in response to: Wrong Way, Buddy! by Elicar

Jeff: I am from Boston and even though my home city is very nice and livable like Montreal (my favorite), it doesn't make my top five skyline cities: 1) HONG KONG - Very difficult to......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

EvilGentleman: Gotta love bikinis.... mmmmmm..... I know, jack. My Sexe Cite post is right through the roof, and Super Sexe and Sex Appeal are doing pretty good, too. Sex sells. Too bad you never got to see the......

in response to: The Time I Almost Saw the Beatles. by jack

Tboy: ok i've been all over canada and everyone hates toronto. i live in the core of toronto, actually in yorkville which is a block away from younge and bloor, toronto's main intersection. every1 hates toronto,......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

CE: Not where I live. If you look at some of my past {Griffintown} posts, you will find that my neighbourhood is pretty barren and devoid of people or amenities (our only park [other than......

in response to: Griffintown Community Board by CE

EvilGentleman: I saw this post the day it was first posted, and had not looked back it till today. What a lot of comments about stolen bikes in the Toronto area! Incredible. Reminds me of this guy......

in response to: A Picture of My Bike by Walks now

EvilGentleman: Georges, The predominant prejudice in Montreal is still language. As an English-speaker, I seldom notice anti-Americanism among the French Quebecers. This may be due in part to my not being to understand most of what......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The simple reality is, Americans are welcomed warmly by most Montrealers, and generally disliked but tolerated by the rest. And that dislike is often because they are getting mistaken for Torontonians, or other English-speaking Canadians. Dislike......

in response to: Yankee Go Home by EvilGentleman

CE: The picture of the second factory doesn't do its size justice at all. It's a massive building that towers over you when you're near it and even when you're on the other side of......

in response to: Two Factories by CE

Give Your Head a Shake: GRAMZ is Graham UNIAC, 22 year old from Toronto goes back and forth between Montreal and Toronto. There are limits to everything and with the millions in damage he has done in each city......

in response to: April 21 2007 Toronto by hool

Angebee: I live in one of these buildings. The architects won all sorts of awards for the fact that we have a "green" project. What people don't know is that the architects, engineers, contractors and sub-contractors......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Gail Purser/ nee Howard: My family(The Howards) moved to the Benny Farm in the fall of 1947, I was one year old at the time. We moved to Beloeil in Oct/56. We lived in K block ,3677 Cavendish Blvd.......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Glenn Freeman: Hi, Just googling pics of my old neighbourhood. I live in Europe now, and haven't lived in Montreal for 10 years now. IIRC, They were still working on Benny Farm back then. Grüß aus Deutschland, Glenn...

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Near as I can tell, he was making and selling balloon animals. There are a lot of street performers and vendors licensed to work in the Old Montreal area. I think Gold Elvis was just......

in response to: Clown on Phone by EvilGentleman

CE: Montreal has some excellent publich housing, especially the infill housing in the older working class parts of town....

in response to: Glasgow Schemes4 by kobie

CE: I'm not sure what happened to the list so here I'll repost it (hopefully) fixed. 1. Poutine 2. A yellow fire truck (must be a full-size ladder truck, not an auxiliary vehicle) 3. Either an STM Transit Cop......

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

CE: Ok, so I've totally let this slide but I still think it would be a good thing to do. I've compiled all the suggestions and have set a deadline for when I'll have all......

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

EvilGentleman: Photos 4, 5 and 6: [[wiki:Old Montreal]] [[http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/eng/accueila.htm]] Map: [[http://maps.google.ca/maps?ie=UTF8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=&t=k&om=1&ll=45.506542,-73.554078&spn=0.003662,0.007231&z=17]]...

in response to: Montreal Scenery, 2004 by EvilGentleman

MontrealGal: FYI these bikes were sold at the city auction for 30$ to 60$.. check out the new bikes the police got. Rocky Mountains... much better Did you ever see a Parking Controle Officer on Bike? They......

in response to: Montreal Police Bicycle by EvilGentleman

Frank S. Besner: Well the factory itself was sold to another flour producing company, at some point last year. That said company, did indeed have plans to take down the sign and replace it (presumably) with their own crappier,......

in response to: 5 Roses by Cinic

CE: serlingrod, you will be pleasantly surprised by the housing stock here. The only areas that I could compare to traditional Philly row housing (at least as far as I know it) is in the......

in response to: Eleven Random, Totally Unreleated Photos of Montreal Taken Over the Course of Approximately Six Months with Two Different Cameras by CE

CE: I don't think it means to say it that elegantly. The French word "retard" is written in a way that would just mean "late" in English. I think it's just stating that ##blocking......

in response to: Don\'t Block the Doors! by CE

CE: Is that blue thing an oldschool Toronto logo? It looks a lot like the current municipal logo for Montreal....

in response to: The Don Valley by Michelle

EvilGentleman: I'm not 100% sure, but I believe this station has the deepest platform in the whole Montreal Metro system. Those escalators seem like they go on forever, and the ceiling is barely visible from the......

in response to: Metro Place-Saint-Henri by CE

EvilGentleman: 39 - Tourists usually ask for directions to the strip bars and trendy nightclubs, **not** "boring" world-famous stuff like Old Montreal, the Plateau Mont-Royal, The Forum, Mount Royal and our smoked-meat delicatessens....

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

elise: i love montreal i go there twice a year to see my aunt and uncle and older cousins they live in westmount...

in response to: montreal by hool

jack: not you evil, actually montreal is beautiful. of course i've never been there but i came close one time when i went to niagara for a convention. i had a grand time, throwing......

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: The old name of the neighbourhood, Notre-Dame-de-Grace (Our Lady of Grace). It was also the name of the area from when it became an independent city in 1906, until it was swallowed up by Montreal......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Tyler: That's sick stuff man... I love Sake, he's the best montreal graffer ever. Please explain more on the "Guy with a spray can in the bush".... I don't get it. Was this Old Montreal?...

in response to: Old Factory Graffiti by CE

Veteran's daughter: I lived here from 1963 - 1966 and remember it as being rather nice. Went back to Montreal about 6 years ago, and took a tour around the old neighbourhood. I was shocked to see......

in response to: The Benny Farm Condemned Housing Projects by EvilGentleman

Susannah: Okay - you did say scavenger hunt, right? I wonder if its possible to gat anything relating to the 76 Montreal Olympics, old posters, graf, whatever. Please feel free to ignore this if its ridiculous....

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

Sirhcbre: Ok, so far we have this on the list: -Poutine -A yellow fire truck (must be a full-size ladder truck, not an auxiliary vehicle) -Either an STM Transit Cop or a meter maid (or meter man) writing a......

in response to: Montreal Scavenger Hunt by CE

Where will the smokers end up?: It has been a few months since the bill 112 came into effect in Québec and I have to say that I do not see how ¨Québec is breathing any easier¨as the government funded propaganda......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Very true, about every city being unique. Sorry about that, I did not mean to slight Toronto (Old habit from hockey debates). I was just pointing out to Sirhcbre that due to the flat landscape......

in response to: The Last Bird by Biff

EvilGentleman: Sirhcbre - Take the metro to Longueuil, walk south on Boulevard Lafayette (next to Autoroute 20) until you are almost under the Jacques-Cartier Bridge (it's not very far, look it up on Google Earth), and......

in response to: The Last Bird by Biff

EvilGentleman: I'm not 100% sure, but I believe Castro has been to this office. He was in Montreal for the funeral of his friend, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau in 2000. I can't imagine......

in response to: I Left My Transmission Fluid in Cuba by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Rest in pieces, you worthless shit. The girl, Anastasia DeSousa, was only 18 years old, and now she's gone forever, a permanent hole in the hearts and souls of the DeSousa family. Who the fuck......

in response to: Murder at Dawson College by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Actually, a lot of the "art" here is not done by children, but by adults. I actually recognize a few of the names here as people I know IRL. What keeps happening in this area......

in response to: Catbread, Free Lebanon, Etc. by CE

Stevo: Evil your comments about Canadian film are stuck in the eighties...and you got it backwards. American Cinema sucks! We make intelligent films aimed at adults, and we do it way cheaper than they......

in response to: Bon Cop, Bad Cop by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, Markus... I thought you were my friend Marc, who still lives in Montreal. He uses MARKUS as his MSN nick quite often, and your first comment appeared right after I spoke to him about......

in response to: Disco Fever by CE

EvilGentleman: That picture was taken from the corner of Atwater and Sainte-Catherine, at the west end of downtown. The metro station is Atwater. Westmount is generally a lot more residential, but I wanted a picture of......

in response to: Montreal Signs 4: Westmount and Mount Royal by EvilGentleman

Sirhcbre: Oh, I guess I never mentioned that, I'm in Montreal now. I just took these pictures yesterday. I guess I was sort of going to announce that with another post that I was......

in response to: NDG Graf by CE

EvilGentleman: Hmmm, interesting. I have never encountered this data before. I know that if you look at a topographic map, you can see an easily identifiable line of hills and mountains sticking out of the flat......

in response to: The Top 10 Canadian Skylines by CE

EvilGentleman: Yeah, we were lucky here in Montreal yesterday. It was only 93F, but with the 61% humidity, it felt like 115F, according to Environment Canada. The Jordanians in the apartment next door to me told......

in response to: Come On! Feel the Illinoise! by ghostofgrandin

Chris Erb: Thank you for all the kind words EvilGentleman, they have really brightened my day! I know things can change drastically as you get older but I have no real desire to return to the Maritimes in......

in response to: A Poor Puppeteer by Marlo

EvilGentleman: I have also been experimenting with taking hool-style photos using car mirrors while parked on the side of a busy street, since it is exponentially less likely that the subjects will become aware of the......

in response to: Passenger Side Rear View Mirror by groovehouse

Chris Erb: Somebody had told me that he was in Montreal and was talking about how much more care free the city is compared to other parts of Canada and started telling a story about a time......

in response to: Montreal Police Bicycle by EvilGentleman

joey: it certainly looks 'old world' there in montreal; european. the picture of the nun with the payless shoe bag is my favorite. but why does she needs shoes? it looks like she is floating across that......

in response to: June 2006 Montreal Part 2 by hool

EvilGentleman: I am surprised at how much of my weather training has been forgotten in the seven years since I last worked at the weather station. I guess that is why they made us work a......

in response to: Mt. Rainier & Lenticular Clouds by aer suzuki

Respect: This law is long over due, which I am sure most health conscious white tooth marathon running people in Montreal will agree. The question of freedoms of rights on this issue can be considered analogous......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

chiamattt: I am by no means a 'corporate hack', and while you said you would not attack me personally, you did. Whatever man, I just feel that these matters can be handled outside the realm of......

in response to: Montreal Goes Non-Smoking: Good or Bad? by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: hool: when you come to Montreal in June, email me so we can hook up for a bite to eat or something. Peter has my hotmail addy if you don't already have it. My treat.......

in response to: Babelfishing by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Actually, you **did** get the new fine arts, or EVA (I have no idea what the acronym stands for) building. It is the one with the "hat" and the obtuse-angled facade on it's upper stories,......

in response to: Tall Buildings of Montreal by CE

EvilGentleman: Ironically, I have seen taller buildings in Iqaluit, Nunavut. And the buildings in Montreal were originally not allowed to be higher than Mount Royal (much like Halifax and the Citadel). Nowadays, the heights of the buildings......

in response to: Fredericton Skyscrapers by CE

EvilGentleman: jack, do not forget June 11, 1958. That was the immortal day when Eddie Cochran released Summertime Blues. The day the music died was still a year in the future, so Buddy Holly, the Big......

in response to: A Little Taste of Screwed & Chopped to Metal Classics by Arthur Mercadante

EvilGentleman: Yeah, this shot was taken on the west side of Cabot Square by the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Atwater. The old Montreal Forum would be off to the left in this shot. I think the......

in response to: Cops Watch Puker in Park by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: To my way of thinking, graffiti should be both encouraged and it's location controlled within reason, with penalties for those who put graffiti in places where it has no business being. Now, before you all......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

Chris Erb: Just called. Had a fun conversation with someone who works at MoMO. He lives in Brooklyn. He told me that the weather is quite nice, told me a bit about new York,......

in response to: Bored at Work by Peter

EvilGentleman: I have only ever seen the velotaxis in the Old Montreal area that is set up for tourism. Actually, I was in the area today and saw none, but maybe I was not in the......

in response to: Montreal Scenery, 2004 by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: Ironically, the Great Lakes - Saint Lawrence Valley corridor in Canada, where 60% of Canada's population lives, including the cities of Windsor, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, gets most of its cold wintry weather......

in response to: Spring Snow by jack

EvilGentleman: Thanks for all the compliments. After I shot these pictures, I showed them to some people I know, and I had a few of them suggest that I should try to sell them to a......

in response to: Train Derails on Bridge IV: The Aftermath (With Graf Train Passing By) by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I know what you mean about the grand old theaters, as I have watched them all disappear one by one. I remember watching numerous movies in the Capitol Theatre in Cornwall, Ontario. The Capitol has......

in response to: X Movie Theatre by jack

EvilGentleman: And lest someone accuse me of America-bashing because the antagonists in the previous story were so clearly all Americans, Canada is no better. A year and a half later, in December of 1990, my American......

in response to: Speak Out by M. Rojas

Elicar: I agree with Get out of your car, buddy! Toronto is one of the top 10 best cities to live in the whole world. Suburbanites, here's something for you to ponder about. Have YOU ever......

in response to: The Top 15 Skylines in the World by Luigi Di Serio

EvilGentleman: My parents and I used to own used bookstores in Chatham, New Brunswick and Cornwall, Ontario when I was a child. (I owned the comic department, as the starting inventory was all from my collection).......

in response to: Booktrash by Peter

EvilGentleman: kc, one of my friends is a train afficionado, and he mourns terribly every time another old set of tracks is removed. I am sure he would agree with you. joey, thanks :-) adam, I don't mind......

in response to: Graffiti on the Roll by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: I just checked. Apparently, I accidentally lied. So here is some personal information about me. My name is Sean, I am 36 years old, and have been married since 2001. I am presently attending Concordia University......

in response to: Arctic Landscapes II by EvilGentleman

EvilGentleman: cool-tsk, it is a shame that you wish to suppress freedom of speech when your chosen art form (and YES, I can see the artistic merit in your work) is all about freedom of speech.......

in response to: Destruction of Lisbon City by cool-tsk

EvilGentleman: re: The Jury is STILL out on Evil Gentleman: 2nd Feb 2006 - 22:25 GMT Thanks for taking the time to read my posts. First off, I use the same nick in chat, and it is......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

EvilGentleman: Well, I have gotten some rest and have done a little catching up on what was posted here while I was away. I am coming to the realization here that no matter what somone posts,......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

anon (HSE-Montreal-ppp339692.sympatico.ca): I am a Kensington Market resident living on the street where the altercation took place. My first reaction upon hearing the news was “wow, maybe the city will FINALLY allow us to have garbage cans......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Hobart: The windows are bricked over because that's where their equipment and cold-storage is, I would imagine. The walls have been retro-fitted with insulation and are too thick and utilitarian in their current role to hold......

in response to: John\'s Grocery by Hobart