Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]John Hudson wrote: "My wife and I flew into Montreal in March 1998 en route to points further east. We experienced very poor service in restaurants for the simple fact that the locals sensed that we were anglophones. Mind you I guess we got the same kind of friendly service that automobiles with Quebec licence plates got in Calgary in the 1980s ......... the gas jockeys took ten times as long to serve them as they did for the locals and frequently just made then wait in line until they drove off to another gas pump." As a life-long Montrealer and full-blooded anglophone, I find this hard to believe. But one can always try Moishe's (the city's best steak house) if one doesn't feel up to the Herculean task of mouthing a few words of high school French as a small courtesy to the person who is serving you. I confess to an ulterior motive behind encouraging visits to Montreal. The Royal Bank in Old Montreal at 360 St. Jacques West now houses a museum of Inuit culture that features my photography, including a 15 x 35 foot enlargement. Also, the Montreal Botanical Gardens Aboriginal People's Garden, to open next month, will be showing a DVD perpetual slide show including many of my images. I think you can get away with speaking English at the casse croute at both places. Emanuel