| Posted by cjb |
10/12/2004 6:35 PM | remove |
Words can,t describe how much I like that pic!
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| Posted by Pig Hogger |
1/9/2005 9:14 PM | remove |
This was the Place d'Accueil footbridge to Cité du Havre, taken from the international broacast center.
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| Posted by maZe |
3/9/2006 7:46 PM | remove |
I love the FARINE FIVE ROSE FLOUR sign!!! ;)
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| Posted by SPEK Photo |
5/8/2006 3:07 AM | remove |
Now you only like it at 75%
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| Posted by Charlie_Dunver |
5/8/2006 3:12 AM | remove |
one thing I like about this pic is how easy it is to imagine what the city looked like when the Sun Life building was the tallest one around!
Those two towers were less than 5 years old in this pic!
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| Posted by maZe |
5/8/2006 3:30 AM | remove |
I only like it in french now! (which makes writing this comment in english quite ironic)
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| Posted by Hardware |
8/31/2006 1:03 AM | remove |
That flag on the right, its now my bedroom curtain.
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| Posted by maZe |
8/31/2006 1:12 AM | remove |
How do you know it THAT flag. There were thousands of Expo flags.
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| Posted by Hardware |
8/31/2006 2:52 AM | remove |
Okay maybe not THAT particular flag. But it sure looks like it.
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| Posted by maZe |
8/31/2006 4:31 AM | remove |
I have 5 flags from Expo. Yeah, I'm an Expo Freak, what can I say...
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
8/31/2006 12:51 PM | remove |
i have a couple of those flags and of course the centennial one too, i managed to get a man and his world lamp post disk too!
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| Posted by maZe |
8/31/2006 10:07 PM | remove |
cool. I hate it when people don't do the difference between the Centennial stuff and Expo stuff. Ok, it was together but the logo is not even the same. Nor the colour scheme... Argh!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/1/2006 2:05 AM | remove |
exactly, so many people think "its the hundredth anniversary of confederation" was a song from expo too!
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| Posted by Hardware |
9/1/2006 11:30 PM | remove |
I've got that 45 kicking around somewhere. But from my point of view, a very young Torontonian at the time, the two were pretty inseperable.
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| Posted by maZe |
9/2/2006 12:30 AM | remove |
See - the centenial was hyped in Qc to counteract the rising Quebec movement (la révolution tranquille).
The Fed did the same thing again in 1992 when the 125th anniversary of Canada was hyped to counteract the 350th of Mtl... It's a classic PR exercise of political spinning.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/2/2006 4:25 AM | remove |
already some people are complaining the mohawks in commemorating the 100th of the quebec bridge disater are trying to overshadow quebec cities 400th
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| Posted by maZe |
9/2/2006 4:56 PM | remove |
awwww... see - it never ends! Acadie said the same thing about the 400th celebration of the French presence in North America in 2004! They though Québec was coming up with all sort of junk to make sure Qc population forgets that the francophone presence does not origin in Quebec...
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
9/2/2006 10:15 PM | remove |
well the quebec bridge thing is happening a whole year before the quebec celebration and the bridge is a memorial for people, so some people got thier panties in a ruffle for no reason
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| Posted by maZe |
9/2/2006 11:23 PM | remove |
Quebec people... they're "specials" ahahah (just kidding, Prof Chaos is great and so is everybody else...)
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
12/29/2008 2:55 AM | remove |
I haven't seen many pictures of this part of Expo. I guess most people were saving their film for the main site.
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| Posted by Nikkor |
4/28/2011 3:13 PM | remove |
Hey! L'enseigne Five Roses du temps qu'elle était bilingue
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
4/29/2011 11:18 AM | remove |
Yup. Back when Montreal was the business capital of Canada.
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/29/2011 6:34 PM | remove |
i have pictures of when the sign said farine lake of the woods flour!
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
4/29/2011 6:48 PM | remove |
and wang yes, we lost the royal bank, bank of montreal, sun life, petro (fina) canada CP rail, redpath sugars amoung others. in terms of industry we lost (big names) Vickers, MLW, CSW, Esso, Gulf(ultramar), Texaco, Sun Oil, Dominion Bridge, Crane, Coleco, Hitachi, RCA, Imperial Tobacco, Seagram, Schenley's Distillers, Corby's distillers, Dominion textile, Northern Telecom (pre nortel) 2 plants shuttered, Canada Bag, Stelco, Monsanto, Canada Car, General Foods (kraft lasalle) Marine Industries, Domtar shingles (ville st pierre), Zimmcor, Sandoz, Gillette, Helene Curtis, Union Carbide, Canada Packers,
people forget we used to make things in this city, hitachi had a tv tube plant in TMR, Coleco made board games and cabbage patch dolls down on st-ambroise, We were a booze capitol, COrbys used to make booze down in goose village, now they just distribute, Meghers as well, Seagrams in lasalle, they stopped distilling in 1995 and now only do a bottleing run as the stuff in the warehouses comes of age, we had factories everywhere, Domglass in the point, consumers glass in VSP, Northern Telecom used to be a force to be reconned with, everyone worked there, and if you didnt you knew 12 people who did, they made every part of the phone, right down to the screws. Chances are your grand ma worked at Montreal Dyeing on st-patrick, doing textile dyeing for dominion textile, Domtar made more than paper, actually at one point i think domtar was hell bent on world domination, they even made toilet seats!
we used to have a stock exchange...
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| Posted by Emperor Wang |
5/1/2011 2:54 AM | remove |
Damn, dude, I'm nominating you for the Pulitzer prize, in the most depressing LDB commentary category.
The manufacturing jobs I'm resigned to losing; that shit's been happening for decades now, and you can't really blame the up and coming countries for wanting their turn at the top of the dung heap. They deserve it for beating us at our own game, no?
But a head office job is a different beast altogether. Try as hard as we might (and Christ, do we try hard), all the arts and culture and tourism in the world can't take the place of one multi-national head office (that wasn't born here) deciding that this is the place they want to plant their flag.
It seems to me all the big cheeses have left town for good. The little local cheeses left behind, all tasty and interesting in their own right (especially so with a cold beer on a sun-drenched terrace), at the end of the day... they're not so filling.
On the other hand, we're on the cusp of summer, the festivals are about to kill us all to death with fun, leg-bearing skirts are still in fashion, street parties are in our blood, bicycles are everywhere, and our women are insanely fucking beautiful, as they always have been.
The bottom line... Even, Stevan, I guess?
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| Posted by nostra-YOUPPI! |
5/2/2011 1:25 AM | remove |
as for head offices, come on, mergers, honestly think molson coors (merger of equals they say) is controlled from montreal. my guess is the big swinging cocks are in golden colorado, same goes for rio tinto alcan. remember when HBC moved the Zellers head office in the 90s to toronto, hell even the sacred cow quebecor has folded almost all its print media into sun media... based in TORONTO.
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