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Are you sure you didn't go to Quebec City? Because, you can say a lot of the same things about it - except that it's even more French.
 
Arn said:
Just coming to the end of a 5 night, 6 day visit to Montreal. My first sort of ?post? pandemic travel trip. It has been wonderful. The city is really lovely; the old city in particular. The actual ?French-ness? was a bit of a shock actually at first. I knew French was the language and of course the history but I didn?t really realise it was going to be quite AS French. That was definitely my naivety.

I did catch a Canadiens game in the Bell Centre and it was a great game, despite them winning. I saw a Duchene hat trick and a line brawl so those are going to remain my take away from that to forget the result!

I almost ended up trying to accidentally vote in a Chilean presidential election yesterday.

The people have been, in the main, wonderful and helpful. My prior experiences in Canada (my three trips to Toronto) meant that this was not a surprise.

We?ve done some touristy stuff. Some of it has been great, some less so. But that?s the deal with these things. The highlight was probably our visit to the Norte Dame basilica for a light show which was one of the most immense things I?ve ever seen. My three year old sat for 20 minutes with his jaw literally dropped open.

He also said tonight ?can we stay?? So I think that?s the ultimate seal of approval.

Flying home tomorrow with a few hour stop in Toronto Pearson airport where I hope to find some Leafs gear
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Montreal is a great city (despite the urge to say it isn't as a Leaf fan). I also think that the Bell Centre is my favourite place to watch a hockey game. Especially a Leafs vs Habs game. The atmosphere in and around that arena on game day is infectious.

As for the "frenchness" of the city, I actually find the opposite in comparison to Quebec City or for that matter, any rural community in Quebec. Montreal has pockets that are English first. Western Montreal is mainly english. As is the NDG area of the city. It's such a large city and so much business happens there that English sort of has to exist. Most of the province is very french. Northern Quebec particularly where English is not even understood, which makes for fun conversations. "Thank god for Grade 9 Core French."  Ou est le bibliotheque?
 
Frank E said:
OldTimeHockey said:
Ou est le bibliotheque?
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*la bibliotheque
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I lived in Montreal for 5 years in the 80's and loved every minute of it.  Nice people, very nice people, great resto's, old city. Lots  of great memories. I am glad you liked it Arn.  Try Quebec City next time.
 
There was  Le Biftheque out by the airport.  I think they had on by the Toronto airport as well for a time.
Great Steakhouse in the day.
 
Highlander said:
I lived in Montreal for 5 years in the 80's and loved every minute of it.  Nice people, very nice people, great resto's, old city. Lots  of great memories. I am glad you liked it Arn.  Try Quebec City next time.
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The Nordiques should be back soon from Arizona. 
 
We had actually discussed hiring a car and heading up to Quebec City for part of this trip but decided that wouldn?t do it justice and that we would come back and do an exclusively Quebec City trip some other time.

My wife loves a Christmas market and that seems to be a speciality of the city so that?s the excuse to get there.

Once the Nordiques are back.

Got a good dusting of snow this morning as well and some nice negative temperatures which I feel short changed if you don?t get if you come to Canada around this time of year
 
I appreciate that Montreal is more English/bilingual than the rest of Quebec, but it was still a bit more French than I was expecting as a non Canadian. I know that?s a bit contradictory.

My son made friends with another little boy over a shared love of a water fountain in a shopping centre (as kids are prone to do) and I was in awe how the kid switched from French to English when my son spoke to him in English. They were both around 3 or 4 years old.

I spent 8 years studying French, all be it a long time ago, and while I can still understand signs and stuff I never was able to just switch languages like that. It?s a nice skill to have in life.
 
Arn said:
I spent 8 years studying French, all be it a long time ago, and while I can still understand signs and stuff I never was able to just switch languages like that. It?s a nice skill to have in life.
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You just described most Canadians.  ;)
 
She's dead.....video...These guys don't get paid enough.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/woman-dead-after-car-plunges-into-river-floats-dangerously-close-to-brink-of-niagara-falls-1.5699021
 
Guilt Trip said:
She's dead.....video...These guys don't get paid enough.

https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/woman-dead-after-car-plunges-into-river-floats-dangerously-close-to-brink-of-niagara-falls-1.5699021
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They definitely don't. 

It's also frustrating to me in how we handle these types of events.  If the woman was brought to hospital and warmed up to be resuscitated before being called dead a debrief would happen in the hospital for anyone who was struggling with the event.  EMS crews usually aren't invited to that. 

Where I work the debriefs are usually run by the MD who ran the code and I had to be the one to start inviting EMS in to these events.  PTSD is wildly out of hand with first responders and we don't give it remotely the attention it deserves.
 
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