Pushchairs are useless in Winter

When there is a good inch of snow on the ground pushchairs are useless as the wheels won’t turn. Effectively this means that a pushchair is useless in Montréal from December until April.
You won’t believe what’s used instead! A sledge of course! Once your little one can sit up straight, you dress them all warmly [...]

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Public Transport in Montréal

I was watching a video from TED.com the other day from a guy who was building a skycar. It’s a facinating video, but I expect it to be quite a few years until we’re all riding over the Saint Lawrence in such a vehicle.
One slide that Paul Moller, the head of Skycar, showed involved the [...]

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Spacing Montréal

Whilst you’re waiting to arrive in Montréal, or you want to learn a bit more about the city, it’s worthwhile checking out Spacing Montréal.
Spacing Montréal ia a blog with photographs of the urban environment of the island of Montréal. Really noteworthy is the work of Guillaume St-Jean who compares old turn of the century photographs [...]

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Montréal in Winter

Montréal receives quite some snow in winter covering it with a blanket of white. On average about 10 to 15cm of snow will fall per week, usually over one day. Locals will talk about snow “storms”; but in reality it just amounts to a lot of snow falling in one day.
Snow falls can be very [...]

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