Remember Classics Bookstores?

This is one of nine Montreal locations circa 1980. The sign shows they got Bill 101ed early. Any idea of the location? Looks like Place Zeckendorf (which you may know as PVM).

95 years old and it still beats the Nova Bus

Q - I'll teach you to burn what?

You know -- you just don't know you know -- what these illustrations represent. Nothing to do with Frank Marino. So what's it?

Yup. We have the correct answer. It's the burning of the joint parliament -- the Halls of Assembly -- of Canada East and West, in April 1849. Pictures taken from short-lived Punch in Canada, which came out solidly on the side of the arsonists, who were protesting a bill that rewarded the 1837 insurgents. Here is one of their typical accounts.

Who is he anyway? Quiz -

This dude - who almost lived long enough to reach what would have been his 90 th birthday last Friday - was nicknamed The Golden Lion and his contributions to North America have been compared to Jackie Robinson's.

He was born and raised in St. Henri, attending Lewis Evans School of the PSBGM and worked as a bouncer, railway porter and machinist. He also had a wide variety of other activities, including boxing, wrestling and he built his own house in Ville Jacques Cartier (ie: Longueuil) and where he raised two sons and one daughter, who attended William White School.

He moved from Montreal to New York - presumably with the whole family - at around age 40 to pursue what had previously been yet another, non-athletic sideline and then went on to become quite famous. That's his wife Almeada bringing him a cup of lemonade after he finished mowing his lawn in 1957.





Clue - here's a phot of him from slightly later on.


'Nswer. Yes we have a reply! And it's a correct one. This is Montrealer Percy Rodrigues, aka Percy Rodriguez who broke some sorta colour barrier by playing a neurosurgeon on Peyton Place in the early 60s. Then he acted as Shatner's boss in Star Trek. He did the narration for the Jaws trailer. He was in Roots and Benson too.

Obits suggested that two of his three kids were still alive and could be living in Canada, which suggests that he might've moved solo to the states in the 50s which would have been a shame.

Montreal - a good deal for a swanky town

Sexy cities cost more to live in than lunchbox cities but Montreal is still a pretty great bargain for a city with a bit of a swagger, according to this study.

So let's say you're a couple. You want to buy a hizznit for your shiznit. According to the numbers - you and your spouse should be making about $51,000 combined per year here in Montreal and the averagerinoo house costs $198,000, so that means if you took all of your combined Montreal working income towards the house it'd take you 3.9 years to pay it off.

The formula is called the median multiple - the median house price - divided by the median household income. Medians are the numerical equivalent of the monkey in the middle. Don't ask me why they're better than averages because a) it'd take too long to explain and b) I don't know.

If you were in Toronto earning the slightly higher average Toronto buckolas, the typiquelle couple would be taking 4.8 years to pay off their home. If you were Vancouverians the same house dealio would cost you 8.4 years of hard work.

So how do youze beat the oppression of working just to pay for your roof? Thunder Bay, baby! It's the best deal in the civilized world. If you resttled there, chances are you'd be pulling in $58,000 and getting your digs at $107,000, which means that you and honey pie would pay off your mosquito infested TB Shack after 1.8 years. They're by far the best deal known to man. If Thunder Bay is too far, Quebec City's ratio is 2.6 years, another pretty good deal.

Saguenay, St. John, St. John's Windsor and Regina - all the romance combined could fit into a pop can - but they're also places where you could pay off your house in under 2.5 years with your typical local jobs.

Plenty of other unsexy cities are cheap, Memphis, Houston, Harrisburg, Pittsburgh.

Meanwhile the swankier urban areas, Australia, Honolulu, New Zealand, LA are so far off the charts you'd better not even think of moving there.

Q-First goal scorers...

Okay this guy was the first guy ever to score a goal for the Montreal Canadiens, about 99 years ago. Who is he?

Answer 1- Newsy Lalonde scored the first goal for the Montreal Canadiens Thursday 6 January, 1910. He scored it against Cobalt at 17:00 of the first period in front of 2,500 people at the Jubilee rink on St. Catherine. The game ended tied at 6-6 and God Save the King was played and the crowd was angry at the result, yelling "Fake! Fake!" so the organizers arranged a hasty overtime and Poulin scored to give Montreal the 7-6 winner. Here's the link.


And this 21 year old scored the first goal in Montreal Maroon history. It came during their inaugural game, in Boston against the Bruins, who were also having their first-ever game. Boston won that game 2-1. This 5'6" 21 year old skater scored the lone marker for Montreal's real team. Who is it?

Answer: Yes we have a correct answer. The first Montreal Maroon goal was scored by little Chuck Dinsmore who didn't score a whole ton o' goals in his short lived Montreal career. Here's the entire story.

1832 Pie IX

Next time you find yourself down at Pie IX near Ontario take a peek at this man's house. He was one of the city's most famous artists, and Italian, quite devout. You can surely guess his name.

Answer- Yes! We have a correct reply! That's the place where Guido Nincheri did his stuff. It's actually more likely where he worked, perhaps he lived there as well.

The phonograph didn't drive MacDonald mad - blazes had already done it!

Here's a story about William MacDonald, cigarette king of Montreal. He lived next door to McGill Principal William Peterson at the Prince of Wales Terrace at Peel and Sherbrooke - which was demolished in 1971 for that dreadful concrete Bronfman Building thing there now. According to Andrew Collard, Peterson had one of the first record players in the city and played it for some of his neighbours, including the cigarette magnate William MacDonald who was..ahem.. a lifelong bachelor.

Principal Peterson naturally thought Macdonald would be interested in hearing a gramophone, certainly an advance in scientific invention. Macdonald sat and listened for a few minutes. His reaction, when it came, was scarcely expected.

"I don't like it, Peterson!" he exclaimed. "I don't like it at all! It's uncanny!" Macdonald reached for his hat and at once left for his house next door.
Collard dates this episode as 1895. But something else happened in 1895 that would have seriously bugged the cigarette king, explaining his weird behaviour. His cigarette factory on Ontario Street burned with plenty o' carnage. Deaths aplenty, young girls launching themselves out their windows to get out of the fire. So far only real report I have on it is the little article to the left, click away.

Haiti at Expo '67, who was really behind it....

The hugely popular Haitian pavillion at Expo '67 was not - as one might expect - organized and run by Haitians. It was a local millionaire named Antonio Simard who funded it and took a cut of its profits because Haiti was too busy dealing with the aftermath of a storm that wiped out its coffee crop to organize something for the fair. Here's the article.

What happened to all those forgotten businesses?

Whatever happened to TV Rental joints, Chinese laundries, jean boutiques? Here's the answer.

According to an old newspaper article in the big pile I have here, Montreal's first sidewalk bench was installed at the corner of Union and St. Catherine July 8, 1962 (someone got a picture of that corner?)

They put a garbage pail next to it.

Not sure if it was the first sidewalk garbage pail too.

Save the Angels!

Local historical expert and FoC (friend of Chimples) Kevin Cohalan is leading a campaign to get these angels reinstated to their perch on that church at St. Joseph and St. Domq. Support the cause!

!-Q-? Ez-e- This NDG product's fave video game is probably Guitar Hero III. Why so?

He's 60. He has a son Colin who's 21. He left Montreal in the early 70s and supposedly moved back in 2002 but we're thinking that might've been a case of let's-not-and-say-we-did. We're thinking he's living in Toronto.

Hint 1- He counted Keith Moon among his friends. In fact when Moon came to Montreal this guy ..uh..appropriated one of Moon's famous Union Jack blazers, presuming Moon had a whole buncha back-ups. Moon however was near tears asking around after his jacket, which was his signature look, and apparently he had only the one. This guy had to pretend that he just found it. Moon was infinitely thankful to get it back.

Answer- Yes we have another brilliant respondent. It is indeed Corky Laing, drummer whose great claim to fame is having co-written the early pre-metallic anthem Mississippi Queen for his band Mountain. It is now featured among others on Guitar Hero III which means that he'll be making even more dinero out of this ditty. I once tried calling Laing for some legit reason that I no longer recall. I ended up chatting with his girfriend at length. She was chatty and inquisitive, as all the best people tend to be.

Spotted on Dante Street - what a name!

Threat to life...

Can you spot the threat to life in this photo? No, we don't mean the cigarette smoking wall supporter. Those leaves growing from the trunk of that tree will kill the poor thing if allowed to grow. The city is home to thousands such trees. If you're standing next to one at a red light, pull off the leaves on the trunk and it'll thank you by thriving for years.

Quiz - where is this and what is it?

One of Canada's most evil, notorious and discussed criminals lived here and committed his first crime at this place in Montreal almost 40 years ago. As far as we know, his crime career started one night he met the pregnant girl with mental issues from apartment 2 who was sitting outside because she couldn't sleep. Who was it and where is this?

Answer: Yes. We have a correct answer or two.

The killer was Wayne Boden, sometimes known as the Vampire Rapist. He bit the breasts of his victims and strangled them.

Much incorrect information has been written about Wayne Boden and I'm here to demystify the story, based on coroners and police reports.

First thing -in spite of some versions, Boden did not kill Norma Vaillaincourt in July 1968. Raymond Sauve eventually confessed to that crime, 26 years later. Boden had been suspected in that murder.

Boden's first victim was Shirley Audette, 20, 5'2", 135 and lived at 1831 Dorchester apartment 2. Boden, a presentable young salesman was living at 1849 Dorch #24. Audette had been treated for some time at the Douglas Hospital for mental ailments. In early 1969 she moved in with her friend on Dorchester named Kenneth Ehlert, 26. In October Kenneth had been working night shifts, which left her lonely and nervous, so she constantly phoned him and frequently sat outside the building, all the while feeling very nervous.

That's where her neighbour befriended her in a very murderous way at 2 a.m. He came and smooth talked her. She even phoned her boyfriend and mentioned it to him at 3 a.m. on October 3. But he called back at 5 a.m. and she didn't answer. She didn't answer becuase she couldn't. They found her body out back fully clad in red wine flares, turtleneck and a brown leatherette vest. She was five weeks pregnant. Ehlert supposedly told police that Audette had been involved in dangerous sex with some guy, which may or may not be true. None of the bodies had major prior bruising or other marks suggested that they had been recent habituees of rough treatment.

Regardless, that notion fuelled the awful suggestion that Boden's victims were willing accomplices to his horrible acts, which is an unspeakable awful and false suggestion.



Five weeks, Boden - a dapper young man who had moved to Dorchester Boulevard from Dundas Ontario just outside of Hamilton - set his sights on another unsuspecting future victim. Marielle Archambault, 20, 5'5", 105, originally from Joliette, worked at the Charbonneau jewellery boutique in Place Ville Marie and lived at 3688 Ontario Apartment 2. He apparently met her via one of the city's west end nightclubs. He picked her up from worked and presented himself as Bill. He would have sex with her and murder her afterwards, as he did with the first vic. She was found dead at her place 26 November 1969 at 1:45 pm. She wore brown pants, green shirt with three buttons missing. Her bra had been torn apart. There was no blood on her clothing but some on her cheek and elsewhere on her body. She wasn't very buxon but there were bite marks on her right breast. There were no drugs or alcohol in her system. Cause of death was asphyxiation. Her body was on the couch and the room was tidy, a typewriter on the table and a Francoise Sagan novel on a desk. She was found by the landlady Emilia Lamarre.

Before he moved to Calgary in May 1970, Boden would then move on to his third and most outrageous crime eight weeks later, the murder of Jean Way, a crime which several people never could get over.

As for the cops. They had no leads. At one of the victim's homes - possibly Archambault's home - police found the photo on the left and thought that it might be the killer. They showed it on TV. But it turned out to be the father of one of the victims. He was already dead anyway. Some say he looked a bit like Boden. I've still yet to see a photo of Boden, even though he apparently worked as a male model prior to his salesman days.

His third and final local victim was Jean Way, 24, 4'11", 110, of 1850 Lincoln #203. Police surmised that she apparently knew Boden well enough to allow him into her home but she was not his girlfriend.

She had been dating Brian F. Caulfield, 22, for a month. They worked together at Geoffrion, Robert & Gelinas on St. James where he was a stock broker. The evening prior the duo had been nightclubbing until 3:15 and he left four hours later. At 5:30 p.m on Saturday January 17, 1970 he phoned her, making a date for 8 pm. He showed up at 8:15, no reply. He had no way of knowing that she was being attacked inside at that very moment. He went to the Cock'n'Bull for a couple of drinks and returned at 9:30. He entered, saw she was sleeping on the bed but coudn't wake her. He saw she was dead but she was not cold. There were no bite marks on her body. There were clothing fibers on her left hand, which indicates her struggling against her attacker. There was a grey-blue wool belt around her neck but he didn't notice it right away. She had been strangled. Her body was covered with a green bedspread, except for the feet.

Caulfield walked to the police station and they returned to the scene with him.

A few people have contacted me over the years mentioning that Way's death was considered a huge blow to all who knew her. She had apparently planned to return east. Her family, father Lewis Way of Hare Bay, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland missed her so much that they lay her baby shoes in the concrete in front of their home so she would always be remembered.

And remembered, she was, just as were the other victims of the tragic murder spree that this demented killer went on here in Montreal.

Boden also killed another woman in Calgary. They bumped into each other in Banff, as they had been acquaintances from Hamilton. He was recognized due to a distinctive sticker on his car.

Boden eventually went to jail for life. He briefly escaped once in Montreal. He went to the Kon Tiki and got served with an American Express card. After he was caught an investigation took place to find out how a life long prison inmate could get a credit card. He died in prison in 2006 after being in jail for 34 years.

The point of rehashing all this gruesome and sad information is to state that the legend of Wayne Boden is false. His victims were normal girls, not sex cult fetish devotees. Let's respect their memories.

Montreal maps - proof that livin' ain't so bad here...

Various concerned researchers have been trying to dig up issues in Montreal proving that the poor are screwed, which seems fairly self-evident anyway.Here's the cancer map. It's sorta old. But showz you that they should kick the butts out in lowerland and the east end.

Here's the educational map. Not much book learning in that Ahuntsic-St. Michel - Park Ex axis.
Here's the 2001 welfare map.
Here's the immigrant map. Explains why you don't see black people in Verdun much.


Montreal is the national leader in single parenthood, at least based on the 2001 stats. We have 33 percent single parenthood. Places like the Point have about fifty-fifty single parent and double parent households.
Vdeo lottery terminals in the city as of about 2001. Seems like you'll have a place to play anywhere on the Main from top to bottom.
This map looks like it took a massive effort for not much result. Elsewhere it has been argued that poor neighbourhoods often have no access to grocery stores. The hypothesis was unproven here, the problem of grocery deserts are simply not a problem in Montreal, conclude the scientists.

These are maps demonstrating poverty on the island. A bit too complicated for me to analyze on a hot day.
This map of violent crime in Montreal demonstrates that if you don't live in the point or Hochelaga Maisonneuve or whatever that place in the far north east is - you'll be ok. I'd put up the map of crimes against property but that's even more meagre, there's only one tiny blue spot on the entire map.

There's a few more maps here.The heat maps in number six are particularly interesting.

Thirsty knob kneed beer guzzlers invade male domains

Montreal Gazette reporter Janet McKenzie and her smokin' hot lusty leggy secretary colleague Karen York are pictured here drinking 14 ounce glasses of draught beer, which cost 35 cents at Claude Janelle's Le Gobelet at 8405 St. Lawrence (it's a Cage'o'Sports now) on December 8, 1971.

They were making history by being the first women to drink in a tavern in Quebec. Well, in fact, they were actually the first women to drink in a brasserie, which was a new category invented by the authorities to allow taverns to serve women. The newly reopened Le Gobelet was the first to get a brasserie license.

Nowadays almost nobody has brasserie or tavern licenses. All together there are 22,555, liquor licenses out there in the province, of those, about half have bar licenses, the rest have mostly restaurant licenses - which means you have to have some food with your booze.

Nowadays, according to a liquor board official, Quebec is home to just 98 brasseries and 40 taverns.

A decade ago there were 24,177 liquor licenses in the province, which included 133 brasseries and 114 taverns.

How pimps express affection...

On November 21, 1971 Leonard Meredith, an American pimp living on Somerled in Montreal beat a girl who was foolishly under his influence. He was punishing her for not making enough money for him as a prostitute.

Rose-Ann Nazlian, 21, came up with him from the states, because she thought he loved her. He beat in the usual way but went overboard. He beat her so badly that she died. That wasn't the plan really.

He didn't have a car so he had to borrow one to dump her body on the south shore. Another girl working for Meredith, 17 year old Debbie Desmond saw the whole thing but kept it hushed up. But finally, on February 21, 1972 Desmond did the right thing and reported Meredith to the police. He plead guilty to manslaughter.

The sad demise of Peggy Coleman

38 years ago tomorrow (ie: June 7, 1970), Margaret Coleman, aka Peggy Coleman, 19, of Canoga Park, California, was travelling around Montreal with her friend Margaret Jones, 20, of Encino (pictured at left). The best friends were trying to get a ride to a campground they'd heard about in l'Acadie, southwest of Montreal when a smallish dark guy offered to give them a lift. Soon Coleman was dead of a broken skull and all Jones was injured by the side of the road. In her only interview, Jones offered California police a rambling story about being picked up by a guy in a "dark blue Falcon" near the St. Hubert traffic circle and feeling scared almost immediately after getting in. Police surmised that they were pushed from the car but Jones didn't have any clear memories and the parents refused to allow cops to grill her or make her take detector test. The parents of the girls fell out and there was apparently some insurance money that could be lost if they were proven to be hitchhiking. Coleman's parents nonetheless wrote to the Prime Minister and prodded other authorities to try to find answers to what they called their daughters "accidental death." We're not sure whether the culprit was ever nabbed but we'll report what we find out on this pixellated papyrus.

Boxing = murder

When the Jamaican Danny Tucker entered the ring against Reynald Cantin at the Paul Sauve arena on June 26, 1971 he surely never imagined that it would be the last thing he did. Ref Rosario Baillergeon stopped the bout near the end and Tucker was brought to the Maisonneuve hospital where they operated on him for a brain hemmorage. No luck. He died.

Q-what historically event involving two Montrealers does this photo represent?

The Montrealer who marched the planet

You think you've put a few miles on a shopping cart? Well Montrealer Jean Beliveau has got you beat. Since 2000 the neon sign manufacturer (not so many neon signs around these days) has trekked 75,000 kilometers around the world and not just to find a trimmer for those bushy eyebrows he's been hauling around.
His march doesn't have any particular point, he talks about helping children or world peace, or whatever, but really we get a sense that he just likes to wander around and snoop. Check out his site

Quiz-who ????

What Montrealer moved here from Toronto at age 21 and lived here for 39 years as an accomplished but unremarkable academic before leaving town at age 60 to quickly become one of Europe's highest ranking and most decorated people?Answer - we have a correct reply. It's University of Montreal psychology prof Vaira Vike-Freiberga, who continued to dabble in Latvian cultural activities as an ex-pat here in Montreal and in 99 found herself drafted to be President of Latvia which she did until 2007. She's not personally responsible for the controversial language tests for citizens which came about in 1995. You can't get a passport unless you can speak Latvian, which some consider a sorta of cultural war against the Russian minority, meanwhile authorites have further stirring the pot by removing monuments to anything that smacks of Russian influence.

Why Quebec men are shorter than in the RoC and its further implications

Cigarettes have screwed up this country in more ways than are immediately obvious to the eye.

Last year smoking killed 3,600 Quebec males and 2,600 females. Quebec has 24 percent of Canada's population but 31 percent of Canada's lung cancer deaths.

Quebecers have long smoked more than other Canadians. Francophones smoke between 5-10% more than their anglo counterparts.

Smoking also causes lung cancer. But recent data proves that it causes another health problem. A new study shows that boys who smoke throughout their teen years end up about an inch shorter than those who don't.

Quebec men smoke more and are shorter than men in the rest of Canada.

Although it's usually not mentioned in polite society - short stature is frequently linked to lower social status and more resentful attitudes. Shorter men earn less money and are considered less desirable to females.

So the toll smoking has taken on everyplace - but particularly Quebec - is massive. Smoking has not only orphaned children and caused countless painful deaths, but has also doomed Quebec's males to stunted growth and the stigma that comes along with it.

Quebec's men have also been the motor of separatism. I suggest someone study a possible height correlation between separatism and its supporters.

If health authorities want to prevent young people from starting smoking, they might consider a note reading: CIGARETTES CAUSE SHORTNESS OF STATURE.
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Notes from the study:
Boys who smoked did not gain as much body weight or height as boys who didn't smoke. For every 100 cigarettes per month increment in cigarette use, the boys were 0.7 cm shorter. If a boy is smoking about 10 cigarettes per day, or 300 per month, "in the end he'll be a little bit under one inch shorter than the boys who don't smoke," Ms. O'Loughlin said.

Smoking does not make teenage girls thinner but it will make boys shorter and skinnier, new Canadian research confirms.

In a finding that appears to prove, at least for boys, that mothers were right -- smoking will stunt your growth -- researchers who followed nearly 1,300 Montreal-area adolescents for five years found that a boy who smokes 10 cigarettes a day from age 12 to 17, or all through high school, will end up about an inch shorter than boys who do not smoke.

Q-where is this?

Chimples wants to drive motorcars. So late at night we take the company Montreal to the east end, (yes the same Alfa Romeo that I briefly posted here before he forced me to take it down) and we just drive around that loop to practice. A Coolopolis summer scab intern dug up an old article about this block from 1922. This block was a quarry, then it was laden with water which took a lot of pumping to empty. The plan was then to use it as a quarry again. The ashes from incinerated garbage from three garbage burning sites (one east, west, north) would be popped in there. Not sure if those plans ever came about, but if you figure this one out, you'll not only earn some treasured Coolopolis glory, but you'll know where to find a simian driving an Alfa Romeo Montreal wearing a Richard Gere mask and gloves (he has to pass as a human).

Answer: it's at Nicolet and Hochelaga, a few blocks west of the Olympic Stadium, just below Sherbrooke street.

Cocainomics - how drug consumption drives up rents

Rents have shot up here in Montreal, a city once considered ridiculously affordable.

One reason rents have risen is the massive financial damage caused when a tenant fails to pay his rent.

Under provincial law, a non-paying tenant can get three months for free, simply by not paying his rent. He often can get even more time depending on how long his landlord put up with his failure to pay. The financial loss caused to a landlord by non a paying tenant is relatively massive and potentially crippling.

The landlord inevitably has to increase his revenue and looks to good tenants to compensate his losses.

Thus the law that prevents a landlord from deadling swiftly with non-payers hurts paying tenants because good tenants ultimately subsidize bad tenants.

So why does a deadbeat tenant not pay his rent? There are many reasons but a significant portion of non-payers are people with drug addiction issues. I'd peg drug abuse as the problem in about 30 to 40 percent of cases.

So, yes, you are probably paying too much in rent. It's not exclusively due to the low vacancy rate or greed.

Q-whose funeral?

In September 1964 Montreal witnessed its largest funeral since the Duplessis do five years earlier. The person being buried was not a politician, statesman, entertainer, hell, we're not even talking about a public figure, or even a man.

Clue: there's a little hint in the picture which suggests where this photo was taken. That should give you somethign to work with.

Clue 2: There were many, many photographers present taking shots of those in attendance. But the photographers weren't from newspapers, family, or magazines.

Answer - YES! We had some excellent deduction in the comment section, including the ultimate correct response - it's the funeral of Rosa Michelotti-Cotroni, mother of the famous Montreal mob brothers Frank and Vito. The photo - judging by the vista at the end of the road - appears to be of the ultra-Italian Dante Street. Here's the newspaper report.

The scariest tree in Montreal

Dezery Park, at Prefontaine and St. Catherine boasts one of the city's most foreboding sights in the city to those who dare to enter. It's a mangled, twisted, embattled piece of living lumber. Its trunk bears the scars of whatever ravages it has endured.

If it could talk it would surely tell of animals nibbling at its bark, trucks launching salt at its base, rotten east end deadend welfare kids smacking their crack pipes on its loving tendrils (Hey, calm down!--Chimples). If you look at the detail you can see the pained expression on the face that its has built for itself, telling you a message of the lives lived in that part of town.

The end of an auction era

These bulletin boards at the east entrance city hall used to be jammed with ads pinned cheek to jowl announcing upcoming bankruptcy auctions that the city would conduct on sites throughout the island.

Those who failed to pay their municipal business taxes would receive a notice which warning them that the city bailiff would show up at their door with buyers who would snap up their belongings unless they could cough up all outstanding doughs.

There was an entire cult built around this tradition, regulars would zoom around town following from one sale to another, some of which consisted of a pair of cross country skies in a basement, others had everything but the girl.

These auctions are pretty much dead forever, as the city has abolished the business tax as of January 1, 2008. In truth they've saddled the business tax onto commercial landlords who are then forced to collect it from tenants and pay it to the city from within their property taxes.

So now if a business fails to pay its business tax it's a dispute between the landlord and the tenant and there's no municipal bureaucrats zooming around anymore. Sorta sad to see this tradition end. Those five ads were from early May and the last one took place May 17.

Gillian Anderson's connection to Kinkora Avenue in Montreal, demolished by Mayor Jean Dore

If you have the slighest idea what Gillian Anderson's connection to the Overdale block is, you should immediately procure a tinfoil hat because the aliens are giving you trivia answers, there's no other way you could possibly know this.

Answer: Her first husband Clyde Klotz, father of the child she bore in 1994, lived at 1450 Kinkora in the early 1980s.