On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Cotty <cotty...@mac.com> wrote: > On 25/5/09, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Depends on which side of "The Main" (St. Lawrence Blvd. to the >>English, Boul. St. Laurent to the French) he lived on. Much less so >>now than about 50 years ago, but that used to be the symbolic dividing >>line between the "two solitudes". > > All I remember is 'Souvenir Street'.
In fact my father worked about 2 blocks from there, on Greene Ave in lower Westmount. This was in the 50's and very early 60's and the office was operated completely in English - even francophones who worked there were expected to speak "the company language". Things have changed quite a bit since then... cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
