Post some pictures of your city! II

[lio45]

Originally Posted by FrAnKs

Nice ! That street is 3min away from my home by driving.

My gf used to live right off the Lockwell/Turnbull corner. I lived in Sherbrooke and went there on weekends. The nearby Banque Nationale building served as a beacon to me, on those few cases I got lost. (Isolated and much taller than everything else.)

I have fond memories of the area, it was indeed really well located!

SHH: no, that's definitely not a recent picture. It's at least a couple months old (100% green leaves in Quebec City).

The Irish flag (closer to yours than this Italian one) can be seen in Quebec City... at least displayed on the Irish pubs. Plus, I know there's also an Irish memorial, some kind of celtic stone, donated by Ireland, on display somewhere in the old core. IIRC it was out of gratefulness for the city having accepted boatloads of Irish refugees during the Great Potato Famine. I can't tell you exactly where it is, although I could probably manage to find it on Street View, because the only reason I know it's there is that my gf and I randomly walked by it and stopped to examine it (and read the stuff thoroughly).

Come to think of it, I'm nearly certain it was located right next to a building which used to be an Irish church, and which was partly recycled into something modern, to house something that IIRC was scientific/medical.

[davidivivid]

http://lemehograph.com/2013/08/25/vi...r/quebec/#main



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http://lemehograph.com/page/20/

[lio45]

The Price building needed work? I'm surprised.

Also: thanks for the pics!

[davidivivid]

Originally Posted by lio45

The Irish flag (closer to yours than this Italian one) can be seen in Quebec City... at least displayed on the Irish pubs. Plus, I know there's also an Irish memorial, some kind of celtic stone, donated by Ireland, on display somewhere in the old core. IIRC it was out of gratefulness for the city having accepted boatloads of Irish refugees during the Great Potato Famine. I can't tell you exactly where it is, although I could probably manage to find it on Street View, because the only reason I know it's there is that my gf and I randomly walked by it and stopped to examine it (and read the stuff thoroughly).

Come to think of it, I'm nearly certain it was located right next to a building which used to be an Irish church, and which was partly recycled into something modern, to house something that IIRC was scientific/medical.

There you go:

"Aux Québécois en reconnaissance de leur exceptionnelle solidarité humaine à l’endroit des Irlandais lors de la Grande Famine"


http://lemehograph.com/page/22/

[Chadillaccc]

Amazing pics David!

[Surrealplaces]

I'm really missing summer.... especially today!


I miss summer..... by Surrealplaces, on Flickr

[SignalHillHiker]

A cute little picture of St-Pierre, St-Pierre-et-Miquelon, from a College of the North Atlantic student.

[lio45]

^ Their license plates are available in both Euro and American shapes? That's got to be a pretty unique situation. (And so is the fact that a typical street scene seems to feature vehicle mixes like a flareside Ford Ranger parked right behind a Renault Kangoo...)

[SignalHillHiker]

Here are some close-ups: http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/AT_SPMX.html

As an aside... I only consciously noticed a couple of SPM plates in town this past summer. Usually they're much more common than that.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by davidivivid

There you go:

"Aux Québécois en reconnaissance de leur exceptionnelle solidarité humaine à l’endroit des Irlandais lors de la Grande Famine"


http://lemehograph.com/page/22/

Thanks, that's indeed it!

If you're a long-time Québec resident, do you happen to know what is the building across the street from this thing? This is a perfect opporunity for me to check how good my long-term memory of random stuff (that I didn't especially care to commit to memory at the time) is... we're talking 10+ years ago.

[lio45]

Originally Posted by SignalHillHiker

Here are some close-ups: http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/world/AT_SPMX.html

OK, but those are normal Euro plates, while the Ranger's seems to have the regular American format, with the license plate info split in two lines, in the same yellow color...

[davidivivid]

You're long-term memory seems to be quite sharp actually! The building you are refering to used to be the St-Patrick's Church. It was converted, quite nicely I might add, into a medical research center linked to the Hôtel-Dieu de Québec.

Originally Posted by lio45

Thanks, that's indeed it!

If you're a long-time Québec resident, do you happen to know what is the building across the street from this thing? This is a perfect opporunity for me to check how good my long-term memory of random stuff (that I didn't especially care to commit to memory at the time) is... we're talking 10+ years ago.

https://maps.google.ca/maps?q=quebec...2.15,,0,-14.45


http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/im...24b9ca7c&gid=3

[Chadillaccc]

That is a beautiful shot of Seventeenth, Surreal. I miss summer too! The winter isn't so bad though.

[Habanero]

Under Peace Bridge by John in Calgary, on Flickr

[SignalHillHiker]

http://bit.ly/1hX3NK2

Bannerman Park - Old St. John's

Bannerman Park is the main park in the old town core of St. John's. It's smaller than the famous Bowring Park, and absolutely minuscule compared to our equivalent of Vancouver's Stanley Park, called Pippy Park.

But it's one of our oldest, and most beautiful.

Following the Great Fire of 1892, Bannerman Park was used as a tent city to house the tens of thousands of St. John's residents who were made homeless.

It was the scene of the violent riots of the 1930s that led to us giving up our independence and returning to British rule.

Just as in 2013 there is a call for the revitalization of Bannerman Park, so it was in 1887. It was in April 1887 that some residents of the city began to groan that:

“summer is coming again and nothing has been done to lay out or improve the vacant space.”

The residents of St. John’s complained that the enemies of the Park were the wild goats and foxes that made the Park their refuge. And there were two-legged enemies of the Park as well: the residents of Flavin Street who were taking the pickets from the fence turning it into “handy fuel.” In short, the people of Flavin Street were using the fence that surrounded Bannerman Park for fire wood!

The residents of the St John’s were determined. They argued that every other city in the world had a substantial park and that they too should have a Park to revel in.

Critics of putting money into Bannerman Park in 1887 argued:

“nature has been so kind to us around St. John’s that the whole countryside is one extended Park which spreads out like the sparking tail of a demonstrative peacock when summer comes and the sun shines.”

The supporters of the Bannerman Park countered:

“We believe that art is nature to advantage dressed, and we want so rural a retreat, within easy access of the town, where the tired tramp may repose his exhausted limbs when the sun goes down and dream of that happy Elysium where insects bite not, nor mosquitoes sting, but where the wick’ud cease from troubling and the weary are at rest.” Yes, we want a Park! “Other things being equal,” we want the Park, the one and only park, the Bannerman Park.”

As with all revitalization projects, funding has always been a concern.

In 2013 the Bannerman Foundation are actively courting private and corporate dollars and partnering with the city. In 1887 the suggestion was “that legislators put another cent or two per bushel on potatoes and give us the Park at once.”

In 1887 supporters of the Park said :

“Not much is required. A little seeding and a little draining.” They dreamt that in time you would find in Bannerman Park “cool shade trees and babbling brooks, of grottos and labyrinths, (fancy a labyrinth in Bannerman Park!) of groove’s and blarney. Nay, even the strawberries and cream, also, especially cream.”

One hundred and twenty six years later supporters of the Park dream of:

“ a refrigerated skating trail, a new pavilion, a splash pad, an upgraded playground, the Garden of Memories, and a new pool house, upgraded pathways, new trees and flower beds, and new Victorian-styled fixtures such as benches and lamps.

Located on the north side of Military Road next to Government House and the Colonial Building, Bannerman Park takes its name for Governor Alexander Bannerman, who in 1864, donated Governor’s lands in the vicinity of Government House for a public park for the use and enjoyment of the citizens of St. John’s.

[SignalHillHiker]

A few slideshows of images from the French Shore of Newfoundland. Although Newfoundland French has all but been replaced by English, the names and culture of the French Shore are still distinct from the rest of the island.

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[Chadillaccc]

Shots from today...



By Chadillaccc, on Flickr

[SignalHillHiker]

Just checking up on friends on Facebook. I love when people who live here but aren't from here post pictures.

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