Hints and Tips on moving to and life in Montréal
Posted in Areas, Attractions, hints and tips on Oct 4th, 2009
Fall in the Eastern Townships is beautiful. The gently rolling landscapes give you access to the beautiful colours of the changing trees. If you’d like to drive around the townships with a goal in mind, why not follow the Wine Route (Route des vins)?
The grape harvest, or vindange in French, is about to begin as [...]
The Marie-Victorin school board announced last week that it would be shutting several schools in the Vieux-Longueuil & St Hubert areas. Forecasters at the school board have determined that they will have 7700 fewer pupils in 2013 and this will cause a financial deficit if they don’t act.
When you’re choosing where to live in Montréal [...]
There are reasons for speedlimits on the roads in Québec: they’re full of potholes. If you were to drive any faster you’d risk wrecking your car!
Much of the infrastructure around Montréal was built quickly and is of questionable quality in many cases. This includes the way in which the roads have been built. Add into [...]
Posted in Areas, hints and tips on Sep 15th, 2008
If you look at a map of Montréal, you’ll notice that there are three bridges connecting downtown to the south shore. So you can be closer to the city centre being off island than on it.
So, is it a good idea to be off island? The catch of course are the bridges, they become bottlenecks [...]
Posted in Areas on Sep 10th, 2008
We’ve been backa few times to La Prairie and it we’ve seen the light! It’s a nice small town, with generallly very nice areas and very, very little poverty. That means that when you send your children to school the kids are in the most part well supported by the parents and achievement should be [...]
Posted in Areas, hints and tips on Sep 8th, 2008
When moving to a new city you have to find the things that you need to live your life how you like, and for some it means getting the right food. Montréal is a great city for this.
This weekend we went to both Little Italy and Chinatown.
Little Italy
Little Italy is centered around Boulevard St-Laurent’s intersection [...]
Posted in Areas on Aug 29th, 2008
Today we passed through La Prairie to have a quick look. The town is on the bank of the Saint Laurent just east of Brossard. The old centre is quite pretty with a few shops, the rest is standard strip malls. We saw some suburbs that looked pretty good, very similar to Brossard, although we [...]
Brossard is the area just over the Champlain bridge from Montréal. It’s mainly residential, very green with modern and new houses. Brossard is part of the town of Longueuil.
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In distance terms, Brossard is not far from downtown Montréal, however the need to cross a bridge can mean that communtes can take some time. [...]
Posted in Areas, Attractions on Aug 15th, 2008
Coming off the motorway onto Lakeshore Roadat Pointe-Claire is one of the most beautiful sites I’ve seen in Montréal. The sun was glistening off the lake, the trees and grass on the bank were a deep green. What a wonderful sight.
Pointe-Claire is very much cut into two by the motorway that runs through it (Highway [...]
Posted in Areas on Aug 11th, 2008
LaSalle is a traditionally working class suburb south west of Montréal’s downtown core. It’s a bit of a mix actually. There are of course the standard white houses that are evident in the east of the island, but there are also some really nice areas with bungalows, trees, very green and well kept. It took [...]