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Cathedral-Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World; built 1870 – 1894. This is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal. The church is a scaled down version of St. Peter’s Basilica. It is the third largest church in Quebec after St. Joseph's Oratory (also in Montreal) and the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré east of Quebec City.
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
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1 Place Ville Marie; Height: 617 feet; Floors: 47; Built 1958 – 62; I.M. Pei and Partners, architects, in collaboration with Dimitri Dimakopoulos.
Tired And Watching From The Sidewalk was A Mom And Daughter at the 2008 Montreal Carifiesta - Jump Up
The observation deck atop 1 Place Ville Marie offers a nice view of Downtown Montreal and other nearby neighborhoods. This photo from the early 1960s shows 1 Place Ville Marie under constructions, in addition to the surrounding neighborhood at the time.
Foto tirada com a lente 55-250mm IS no Parc René-Lévesque. Montréal, Canadá.
Picture taken with the lens 55-250mm IS at René-Lévasque Park. Montreal, Canada.
Le parc René-Lévesque est situé dans l'arrondissement de Lachine de la ville de Montréal, au Québec. D'une superficie de 14 hectares, il est situé sur une presqu'île aux abords du fleuve Saint-Laurent, longeant la piste cyclable du canal Lachine.
Vingt-deux sculptures d'artistes québécois sont intégrées dans ce parc, œuvres faisant partie du Musée de Lachine situé à proximité.
Night view from the Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth (commonly called The Queen Elizabeth Hotel; French: Le Reine Elizabeth).
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing commitees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;
Cathedral-Basilica of Mary, Queen of the World; built 1870 – 1894. This is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Montreal. The church is a scaled down version of St. Peter’s Basilica. It is the third largest church in Quebec after St. Joseph's Oratory (also in Montreal) and the Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré east of Quebec City.
This shot is looking "northwest" (Montreal-orientation, which is more like west in the real world) from Place du Canada across Dorchester Boulevard (Boul. Rene Levesque) and Dominion Square towards the CIBC Building.
La Tour CIBC (CIBC Building) is a skyscraper in the city of Montreal. It measures 187 m (613 ft) in height and counts forty-five storeys. If you count the pinnacle the building would be 250 m (820 ft). The 45-floor office was built by Peter Dickinson, Ross, Fish, Duschenes and Barrett and was the city's tallest building from 1962-1963. The building holds offices for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and other companies.
The building is located at 1155 René Lévesque Boulevard West next to Dorchester Square facing the imposing but dwarfed Sun Life Building. Part of the historic Windsor Hotel was demolished to make room for construction, with the remaining portion being converted to offices in the 1980s.
Completed in 1962 only a few months before Place Ville-Marie, the CIBC Building was the tallest building in Canada and the entire Commonwealth of Nations when it was first built, until being surpassed later that year by Place Ville-Marie where a penthouse was added by the competing Royal Bank for that express purpose.
The tower is exceptionally slender (1,400 square metres of gross floor area per floor), due to a zoning regulation limiting the total building floor area to twelve times the property area. Its façade is more ornamental than that of the average International style tower, with horizontal strips of glass curtain wall alternating with spandrels of various types of stone. The building was fully renovated in 1991, and the highly visible CIBC logo at the top was redesigned in 2004.
Inside, levels 15 and 29 are transfer floors; level 16 is a triple-height mechanical floor that is skipped in the floor numbering of the passenger elevators. Levels 42-44 are also mechanical floors; level 45 was originally an indoor observation deck but was closed in the 1970s. The top 7 m of the tower are actually an open-air raised partition, built sometime after construction, that hides the rooftop elevator control rooms. Without this extra structure, the actual roof height is 180 m, and approximately 184 m when counting the elevator penthouse. It is the fifth tallest building in Montreal, but an antenna raises the total height to 250 m (820 ft), the tallest pinnacle in Montreal.
René Lévesque, GOQ (August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987) was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, (1960–1966), the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec (November 25, 1976 – October 3, 1985). He was the first Quebec political leader since Confederation to attempt, through a referendum, to negotiate the political independence of Quebec.
Quebec's Parliament Hill.
The observation deck atop 1 Place Ville Marie offers a nice view of Downtown Montreal and other nearby neighborhoods. In the distance, one can see the Biosphere, which was the United States Pavilion for Expo 67.
2009 Montreal Carifiesta (Jump Up) which took place on July 4th this year. The party went on despite the on and off rain, heavy winds and the split in the organizing committees! The later was more evident as a split in organization also played out with the parade! There also seemed to be less floats than in previous years, but the "band played on"!
Previous years;