ugh, this is terrible. park avenue should not be changed for all the reasons that st-joseph should not be changed: the street name is engrained in our cultural and collective heritage. renaming it will erase 104 years of history. it will commemorate a politician, yes, but it will also break an important connection montrealers have to their landscape. renaming a street has the same effect as giving it a number.
according to today's la presse, st-joseph will not be renamed because its name is too important: it commemorates some order of saints that had something to do with the founding of montreal and, more remarkably, it figured highly in the works of michel tremblay.
but guess what? park avenue is an important literary street too. it has figured as much in the works of montreal writers such as mordecai richler, mary soderstrom, dany laferrière, etc. as st-joseph has in the oeuvre of michel tremblay.
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Originally Posted by malek
aussi faut pas oublier que Bleury va changer aussi de nom... un des noms les plus laid en ville sans compter que ca va eliminer une confusion d'avoir une rue changer de nom en mi parcours.
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um, confusion? i guess if you're used to living in a flat, sprawling non-entity with space-age street names like "boulevard de l'avenir."