Underground

On our second full day in Montreal we walked to the underground city and a tourist section of town.

We walked along the main road along the park with some sculptures and this stairway art.

We entered the undergound city through the metro depot. Although there are entrances to the city tunnels all over the place, they all seemed to be hiding in plain sight. We had trouble knowing which way to go once we entered the depot. Not being able to read the French signs probably didn’t help.

Much of the underground city consists of shopping malls. That’s probably why the next day someone laughed when we mentioned we had gone to the undergound city and they said “oh, you mean the shopping mall”.

On the way back from the mall, we stopped at a park with a tree sculpture.

Being worn out from a day of walking, we stopped at a familiar place – McDonald’s – where we found a few different menu items than we were used to like the McWrap, Snack Wrap, Vegetarian Big Mac, and some baked goods.

By the time we arrived at the touristy area of Montreal, Camilla hwas already wearing her new high-tops from the mall.

Camilla tried on some hats.

I had bought a pair of Levi’s at the mall. While shopping at the touristy shops, we found out that the security tag had not been removed from my jeans, so we decided to split up.

I trekked back to the mall to get the security tag removed (and secretly returned to the touristy shops to get Linda’s travel gift) and quickly stopped for a few photos along the way.

Meanwhile, Linda and Camilla returned to the condo and had ice cream.

Canada Lessons:

Canada has ten provinces and three territories:

Provinces

• Ontario : Toronto
• Quebec : Quebec City (largest Montreal)
• Nova Scotia : Halifax
• New Brunswick : Fredericton (largest Moncton)
• Manitoba : Winnipeg
• British Columbia : Victoria (largest Vancouver)
• Prince Edward Island : Charlottetown
• Saskatchewan : Regina (largest Saskatoon)
• Alberta : Edmonton (largest Calgary)
• Newfounddland and Labrador : St. Johns’s

Territories

• Northwest Territories : Yellowknife
• Yukon : Whitehorse
• Nunavut : Iqaluit

Capital of Canada

• Ottawa, Ontario

The provence of Quebec has no cities.

• Montreal is a ville, not a city.
• Quebec City is a ville, not a city.
• An area in Quebec could be classified as a city, but, no area is currently classified as a city in Quebec.

ref: Provinces and Territories

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