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Old Posted Sep 30, 2015, 8:35 AM
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I don't want to go off-topic but how exactly was he a disaster?

During his tenure as a mayor, he made Montreal (metropolitan) grow from 2M to 2.9M.

He is the person that made Montreal a world class metropolis. He had vision which is something that Canada as whole currently lacks. For Drapeau, it was out of question to go the cheap route. So what he left a big debt? Are we going to ignore the million positive things he did? Even nowadays, in 2015, the city benefits tremendously economically from his projects. Think of the F1 GP for example, who puts the city on the World map every single year ($100M+ in 1 weekend). We wouldn't have it if it wasn't for Drapeau.

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I lived in Montreal during the last half of Drapeau's tenure, and I vividly recall the havoc he wreaked upon the city. He flattened whole neighborhoods (for shit like the tour Radio Canada, La Cite, etc.) and sought to have a series of sunken expressways (e.g., Decarie) throughout the core instead of a subway. He was a megalomaniac persona. Far too much power invested in one man. The Olympics were a financial disaster.

Sure there were crowning successes as well (Expo 67). But, there is no way to attribute the population growth experienced by Montreal (most of which occurred in the suburbs) during the 1960s to this man. The seventies saw the city proper of Montreal decline by a quarter million citizens.
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A few scenes of St. John's an its suburbs from, mostly, 1953. Memorial Archives.











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The Main (Boul. St. Laurent), Montreal, early 1900s; the heart of Jewish Montreal:

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Le Plateau, Montreal, 1925s:

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1890, Victoria Square (flooded), Montreal:

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Funicular Railway, Mont Royal, Montreal, 1990:

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Gatineau (Hull) in 1896

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In 1938

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These pictures get me confused. We keep hearing that the federal governement torn down a good chunk of downtown Hull in order to build the office buildings in the 1970's. That's not what these two pictures show though, the area where they were built appeared to be mostly industrial and desolate.
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Gatineau (Hull) in 1896

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In 1938

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These pictures get me confused. We keep hearing that the federal governement torn down a good chunk of downtown Hull in order to build the office buildings in the 1970's. That's not what these two pictures show though, the area where they were built appeared to be mostly industrial and desolate.
Well, the low-rise industrial space to the left of the picture across the river still has a paper mill on it today. The taller industrial complex on the right is where the Canadian Museum of History is today. There is a single cement tower still left from that industrial complex right next to the museum (la Tour des Lessivages).

The actual city neighbourhoods that were bulldozed are/were immediately to the north of this large industrial complex. If you look beyond the flatter area on the left, you can see a neighbourhood where the huge Place du Portage complex stands today. The Terrasses de la Chaudière complex would be to the left, likely out of the shot.
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Great post, Rico. I love that view of the harbour from the 1860s - not a time we see too much of.
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^Kewl.

Makes you realise how obscured, at least partially, the CN tower has become.
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Great Toronto find. Another from that album:


045 1976-07 Casa Loma - looking downtown by Chris Robart, on Flickr
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It has such a different vibe with the older commercial towers instead of the glass condos. I like both, in terms of skyline.
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^Vancouver was huge even then!
That angle hides the lack of density since the west end apartment boom was in the 60s. The build up since 1992 has been pretty incredible.

e.g. 1992



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Those viaducts in the bottom right will be disappearing soon, which is the only reason that part isn't covered with condos too.
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Apart from a few additions like Scotia Plaza and Brookfield place, and a couple of condos along Bay street, this was Toronto as I remember it in the late 1990s.

I distinctly remember being able to see Old City Hall's copper tower from vantage points as far away as this.
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Great TO pics. That first one... holy fuck, how much it has grown? That's... HUNDREDS... of towers difference.

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So I've been asked a few times if St. John's was always so colourful and I explained that the colours were just as varied but deeper and it all had an even more lower-class feel.

Found a pic on a friend's Facebook page... THIS is how it was, right up until the early 90s.



(the grey one of the left... that was VERY common. There's one house being restored now on Military Road to exactly that colour. It's the first grey one in the city in a generation. I LOVE it... it looks fancier today, though, because it's done properly).

The weird little squares in the sidewalks outside the homes... that was for the coal delivery men to shovel it into for heating.

Some of the homes still have them but only if they were set back farther from the sidewalk. When modern sidewalks were installed, those chutes were already obsolete so they were just covered over.
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What is that guy doing on the roof?
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Drunk. Or laying shingles. It's still a common expression - I assume for you too? Call and ask for someone and they'll say: "Oh she's up on the roof laying shingles."
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