Tour of Rue Ste Catherine

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If you are interested, you can take a virtual walking tour of Rue Ste Catherine in Montreal at the website below. Ste Catherine is the colorful, vibrant center of the gay village in Montreal and runs from the Hotel Gouverneur in the west to Taboo at the east. There are the four stripper bars, many other gay bars, many restaurants, entertainment complexes like Skye and Bourbon Street, and various other bookstores, delis, grocery shops, clothing stores, and more. Walking is always a pleasure and an adventure day or night. As soon as the weather gets nice, most of the restaurants raise their front walls/windows, so that outside and inside become one.

 

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There are 42 photos on two pages. Click on VIEW AS SLIDE SHOW

to enjoy them easily in large size.

 

Last year, the Grande Bibliotheque / National Library was completed across the street from the Gouverneur. It is a splendid success visually, architecturally, literarily, and socially. Prior to this building, the city library had issued 2,000 library cards for the whole city. Since the opening of the new library, the library issued more than 60,000 library cards in the first year. People love the library; they are lined up at the door every day before opening - children students, adults, seniors. It is right across the street from UQAM = Universite de Quebec a Montreal. The library has wonderful resources of books, magazines, maps, videos, cd's, and DVDs. The lounges are bright and light and inviting. The exterior glass is tinted the color of the icebergs of northern Canada, and the wood used throughout is the special yellow birch of the forests of Canada. If you have not tried it, I recommend it very highly.

 

(Yellow Birch is the "National Tree of Quebec." The wood is noted for its warm color. It is the most valuable hardwood of Quebec and often often for floors and cabinets.)

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>(Yellow Birch is the "National Tree of Quebec." The wood is

>noted for its warm color. It is the most valuable hardwood of

>Quebec and often often for floors and cabinets.)

>

 

I'm not saying you are wrong here. I always thought that maple was the most valuable hardwood of Quebec.

 

You learn something every day!

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First pic is not Montreal Airport!!!