Montreal Urban Landscape

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The Montreal urban landscape is constantly evolving and changing as new structures keep appearing while some of the old disappear by being torn down.

Just like in this image which I took about a year ago, many more massive office buildings are being built all around this area of downtown the progress of some that I have documented with earlier posts here.

This is my contribution to this week’s WP photo challenge “LANDSCAPE”.

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Cool. I visited Montreal when I lived in TO. It was late October, so it was chilly and I did a hike to this church at the top of the hill. It was quite nice. This view certainly reminds me of the city I visited for two days.

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Inside two places, a big tent and a vehicule storage garage.

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Saint Jean Baptiste Day in Quebec today is more a secular, pagan outing called La Fête Nationale.

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Staged motion perfectly adapted for annual Canada Day celebrations.

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Chained door told the story, the famed hospital was closed for good.

Cloud 9 Iced Banana Ring Cake

Montreal busy street life of cars and mostly office people.

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Old abandoned house in Winter’s snow covering its weed and brush overgrown lawn.

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Athena lamp

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symbols of corporate wealth

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This Quebec ‘space cadets’ graffiti is in backyard tunnel exiting onto street.

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Metal scrap on rollerskates on its pedestal near the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

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Admiral Horatio Nelson unpickled heads a line of historical figures who somehow played a role in Canada.

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A real relic of Canada’s history, the Rideau Canal in Ottawa

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