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06 Wednesday Dec 2017

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École Polytechnique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

En mémoire des victimes de la tuerie à l’école polytechnique de Montréal il y a 28 ans : Geneviève Bergeron, Hélène Colgan, Nathalie Croteau, Barbara Daigneault, Anne-Marie Edward, Maud Haviernick, Maryse Laganière, Maryse Leclair, Anne-Marie Lemay, Sonia Pelletier, Michèle Richard, Anne St-Arsenault, Annie Turcotte, Barbara Klucznik Widajewicz. Cette photo a été prise quelques heures après les évènements commémoratifs qui ont eu lieu en décembre 2014.

Ancient visitor

02 Saturday Dec 2017

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada

I can’t remember the context of this photo, which I snapped about six years ago, but I imagine it must have had something to do with the science centre at the Old Port of Montreal. No other explanation seems plausible.

Spud buds

06 Friday Feb 2015

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Patates, prêtes à être pillées

These potatoes sure look as if they’re having a great time! Spotted somewhere in the Plateau in Montreal about a year ago.

Two dimensional, three dimensional

03 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Voyageons dans le temps

Here’s a trippy piece of indoor wall art from the World Trade Centre complex in Old Montreal, snapped back in December.

You’ve got the city behind you

25 Sunday Jan 2015

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Remorquer la ville

Spotted this piece of wall art in downtown Montreal on my trip there late last year.

Behind barbed wire

28 Sunday Dec 2014

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Barbelé

This abandoned industrial complex sits at rue St. Ambroise and rue St. Rémi in Montreal’s St. Henri neighbourhood.

Piètre état

Perspective is everything

27 Saturday Dec 2014

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Miniature

Two of the many Christmas trees I’ve spotted this season, both of these from my recent trip to Montreal.
The one above is barely 10 centimetres tall … the one below is more like 10 metres!

Noël s'approche

We will never forget

08 Monday Dec 2014

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Nous n'oublierons jamais / We will never forget

To the little girl in the pink jacket, the little patch of raised stone adorned with metallic shapes was just something else at the park for her to play with.

As she gingerly balanced herself, her mother extended a guiding hand and gently scolded her: “You can’t walk on that.”

The girl couldn’t have been older than five, couldn’t have known what her mom knew. It wasn’t any old structure in any old park on any other day.

The bits of metal spelled out Hélène Colgan, the letters adorning one of 14 stone markers for 14 young women, victims of a massacre at the University of Montreal’s École Polytechnique in 1989.

Saturday, Dec. 6, marked a quarter century since this horrific act of violence.

The little girl and her family were among many who passed through this long, narrow memorial park just a stone’s throw from the university.

Flowers and candles paid silent tribute to so many lives lost far too soon.