Montreal - July 2014

The Auberge Vieux-Port is an old 1880 building which was originally a leather factory/warehouse.

The room looked out over the St. Lawrence River (though we could not see much through the trees)

The table setting for the dinner-cruise

Interesting signs in the shopping area of the Palais de Congress -- 

you can just see the "comb and scissors of the hairdressees 7th along from the right.

In the "Biosphere" a museum covering environmental issues there dresses

made  of "re-cyled materials". This one is the Arizona Iced Tea can dress!!

We breakfasted outside the hotel one day but this morning it was raining.

The Auberge Vieux-Port hotel and the Tavern Gaspar -- at a rare time when there was

little traffic and no tourists -- other times the Old City is bustiling with both.

The hotel room

Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal

from Wikipedia -- Nelson's Column is a monument erected in 1809 at Place Jacques-Cartier, Montreal, Quebec, dedicated to the memory of Admiral Horatio Nelson following his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. Since the destruction of Dublin's Nelson's Pillar (1808–1966), Montreal's stands as the oldest "Nelson's Column" in the world, and is also the city's oldest monument. Neither the French Revolution nor Napoleon had been popular among the French in Montreal, and contrary to later belief, the public funds raised for the monument were collected from British and French Montrealers alike.

Inside the Notre-Dame Basilica

A street in the "old town"

On the dinner cruise -- passing the  La Ronde amusement park. The roller coaster, 

The Goliath, a 53-metre (174 ft) high mega coaster. It reaches speeds of 

110 km/h (68 mph), making it the third tallest and the third fastest roller coaster in Canada. 

The Rue St. Paul -- just behind the hotel.