Aside from poutine, Quebec’s most famous culinary export has to be maple syrup. Maple syrup is a dark, super sweet confection made by boiling the sap from a maple tree to a specific temperature for a specific amount of time. This delicious syrup has been a stable of the Quebecois diet for hundreds of years [...]
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Snow Removal Free Overnight Parking
Starting this year (winter 2007-2008), Montreal eases car owner’s lives during snow removal. Free overnight parking is offered in specific locations between 6pm and 7am when the town is working hard to get rid of all the white stuff. In all, that’s about 2500 places in 25 different parking lots that are available! During the [...]
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Kavaloo, A Restaurant For Families
One of many interesting places to eat in Montreal, Kavaloo is special in that it offers a dining experience for families with small children. There are two dining rooms, both bright and cheerful with fun art on the walls. One of the dining rooms has a playroom attached to it, with large windows for monitoring [...]
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Snow Removal Process
Snow removal is one of the necessary evils that accompany winter living in the city of Montreal. The past several years have seen a larger than normal amount of snow fall on the island during the traditional winter months of December to March. This has lead to an additional strain on the already stretched to [...]
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Montreal’s Three Main Bridges
As with any city surrounded by water, its bridges are both emblematic and problematic at the same time. While the Champlain bridge and the Jacques Cartier both have impressive spans over the St. Lawrence Seaway that most people could instantly identify with Montreal, having to drive over one of these structures during rush hour is [...]
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Montreal Airports
The saga of Montreal’s airports is a strange tale complicated by bureaucracy and the unpredictable future. The city was unique in Canada in that for a time it was served by two full scale, world-class airports. The story of how Mirabel and Pierre Elliot Trudeau International were conceived, built and then ultimately went on to [...]
