| Posted by maZe |
11/11/2005 4:01 PM | remove |
A few things : You can see the old custom house that was demolished 2 or 3 years ago. Also, if I'm not mistaken, we can see the pillars of Jacques-Cartier Bridge being built!!!
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| Posted by nel58 |
11/11/2005 5:17 PM | remove |
I think you're right ! Oh so beautiful.
Mapman,all these pictures make my day !
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
11/11/2005 10:10 PM | remove |
you mean the crooked harbour police building maze?
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
11/11/2005 10:22 PM | remove |
nel is so easy to please, eh? And maZe continues to mix up her customs buildings :-) Yeah, the building just left of the big grain elevator was the port police HQ until it was torn down a few years back. A very unique and unstable building it was too. PM me if you want to see some pics.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
11/11/2005 10:34 PM | remove |
yeah it reminded me of the shrieking shack in harry potter!
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| Posted by maZe |
11/11/2005 10:37 PM | remove |
I remember being inside of it in 1996 when I was manager of SOS Labyrinthe in the old port, I didn't visit the whole place but I thought it was an okay old building... Structure was unstable? I wish they'd save this building though. It looked nice. And yeah, I guess I missed the custom/port police class. Sorry for that. :(
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
11/11/2005 11:40 PM | remove |
it was incredibly crooked, some windows were broken out of crookedness, it would have made a great fish restaurant, the slanty shanty
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
11/12/2005 5:58 AM | remove |
That's ok, maZe. I flunked out of theatre decorating school myself :-)
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| Posted by maZe |
11/12/2005 6:38 PM | remove |
Ahahaha. good one! :)
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| Posted by TaP |
11/13/2005 8:07 PM | remove |
sos labyrinthe rocked!
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/22/2006 11:53 PM | remove |
CNR became CNR in 1921 or 1923? So that would be the old Grand Trunk grain elevator, maybe?
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
9/22/2006 11:58 PM | remove |
it s really hard to believe today but there used to be a 3 mile gap at the port for GTR/CNR. The government controlled tracks down there were way too expensive so a GTR/CNR train that wanted to go from Point Saint Charles to the east end of Montreal had to take a 110 mile detour (like up north of Laval and down). Sure it was all political but it happened ! CPR cleaned up big time as a result having a near monopoly on rail shipping from the rapidly expanding industrial areas of the east end of Montreal.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/23/2006 4:10 AM | remove |
it was only fixed when the bridge over the locks went in after the canal closed
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| Posted by JRD33 |
3/1/2012 10:42 PM | remove |
Is the Jacques Cartier Bridge under construction?
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| Posted by tijeff |
3/3/2012 9:52 PM | remove |
Yes indeed !
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