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Montreal Metro uses rubber tyred trains like Paris: like Paris, almost everything is in French. VIDEO CAPTUREs Malcolm McCrow | |
Even the Metro signs look like those in Paris - PHOTOs Iain Wilkie | |
Tour buses operating in Montreal (above); one of the many interconnected underground shopping malls forming the Underground City (right) - VIDEO CAPTUREs Malcolm McCrow | |
Early one wet Saturday morning - Hotel de Ville (left); typical street (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Biosphere built for the 1967 Expo (left); beaver nearby surveys its domain (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm Mccrow | |
Montreal Casino on the Ile de Notre Dame (above) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Public service buses run out to the Casino which also has visitors arriving in Special buses (above) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Biodome is part of the Stade Olympique (left); Place des Arts (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Upper floors of skyscrapers obscured by low cloud (left); squirrel in city centre (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Sun Life Building presents a ghostly image behind the dome of Marie-Reine-du-Monde which is a smaller scale replica of St Peter's in Rome - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
CAT-powered yellow school buses parked in Downtown Montreal - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Chinatown (left) and the Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson (Hudson's Bay Company) (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Contrasting and striking architecture abounds in Montreal - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Statue near the BNP and Laurentian Bank - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Although a European ambiance and appearance abounds, not everything looks European! PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Views from Parc Royal on Mount Royal - a long walk by road, or a steep climb by the steps, but worth the effort to reach the 262 metres summit - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Dominion Square (left) and lunch in the park nearby (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Grain silos on the waterfront - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Larger than life flower pots (left); Montréal Museé d'Archéologie at Pointe-à-Callière (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Habitat 67 flats by the waterfront built for the World's Fair (left); the Biosphere (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
The Clock Tower (left) The Pavillion Bassin du Bonsecours (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Cityscapes - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Marché Bonsecours - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Autumn tint to the trees (left); souvenir shop (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Hôtel de Ville (City Hall) (left); Place Jaques Cartier (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours - the sailors' church (left); dredger (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Basillique Notre-Dame viewed from an alley (left). When its clock strikes the hour, it is preceded by half a Westminster chime. Squirrel on same alley (right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |
Bank de Montréal - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow | |