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 [...]
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SAAQ at La Prairie and Dancing
Posted in News, hints and tips on Feb 8th, 2009
Would you normally associate the SAAQ with dancing? The SAAQ mandataire at La Prairie donates all of its profits to a local organisation that organises dancing classes for children.
Isn’t that nice?
Public Transport in Montréal
Posted in hints and tips on Jan 24th, 2009
I was watching a video from TED.com the other day from a guy who was building a skycar. It’s a facinating video, but I expect it to be quite a few years until we’re all riding over the Saint Lawrence in such a vehicle.
One slide that Paul Moller, the head of Skycar, showed involved the [...]
Snow in Montréal
Posted in News on Dec 12th, 2008
This week we had our first major snow fall of the season here in Montréal. First it snowed, then it rained and then it snowed again. The rain turned to ice, so you have tree branches incased in ice and on the ground a layer of snow, ice and then more snow.
Here are some photographs:
Realtor in La Prairie, South Shore
Posted in Companies, hints and tips on Nov 18th, 2008
If you’re looking to buy or sell a house on the South-Shore of Montréal, especially in the La Prairie, Brossard or Candiac areas it’s worth getting in touch with Claire Savard. She really helped us out and was highly professional: she listened carefully to what we needed, learnt what we liked and disliked as we [...]
Hallowe’en in Montréal and La Prairie
Posted in Attractions on Nov 1st, 2008
What can I say but wow! If you’ve never seen Hallowe’en in North America you’re in for a pleasant surprise! It’s really taken seriously here.
La Prairie in suburban Montréal organises a Hallowe’en party in it’s 340 year old historical centre. Amongst the old buildings a haunted graveyard was set up, one of the municipal buildings became an [...]
La Prairie
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 [...]
La Prairie
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 [...]