Le Petit Dep, St Sulpice Street, Montreal, near Nôtre Dame. What could be more Québecois than a dépanneur?

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Montreal’s Old Port has five ruined grain elevators built between 1900 and 1930. They still dominate the skyline of the port area and have a decayed majesty when the light catches them right.

I am indebted to the Arkinet blog for this information about them

All great cities have great ruins. “Along the port of Montreal”, wrote the Professor of Architecture at McGill University, Ricardo L. Castro, “there stands a large cluster of ancient, early-to-mid-twentieth century grain elevators, which have been condemmed to demolition. These structures are no longer being “used” by anyone, and they take up a large amount of “prime” urban space.”

The Grand Trunk Elevator (aka the Montreal Warehousing Company), Windmill Point, Montreal, designed and constructed by John S. Metcalf, between 1900 and 1903. Made out of steel and, no doubt, utilizing rectangularly shaped bins, this elevator could store one million bushels of grain. Small by comparison with other elevators made out of steel during the same period, the Windmill Point Elevator was clearly intended, not to store large amounts of grain in bulk (two or three million bushels), but to unload and transfer large amounts of grain from one form of vehicle to another.

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Sunset light catches the Wellington pedestrian/cyclist bridge in Montreal's historical Peel Basin.

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What was built as the American Pavilion at Expo 67 is now the Montreal Biosphère, an environmental museum on Saint Helen's Island in the St Lawrence River., an environmental museum on Saint Helen's Island in the St Lawrence River.

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The Prophet Ezekiel gazes up at the roof of Notre Dame Basilica on Montreal’s Place des Armes. The interior of the church is amongst the most dramatic in the world and regarded as a masterpiece of Gothic Revival architecture. The vaults are coloured deep blue and decorated with golden stars, and the rest of the sanctuary is decorated in blues, azures, reds, purples, silver, and gold. It is filled with hundreds of intricate wooden carvings and several religious statues. It was designed by Irish-American architect James O’Donnell and built between 1824 and 1830. The two-deck balcony running along three sides of the church recalls a devout Québec which has now vanished.

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