Did I ever mention how much I love Montréal?

No? Well then....

:D

(You thought I was going to go into a big 10-pager about how great Montréal is didn't you?)

http://helpsaveparkavenue.blogspot.com/

I could mention all the fun times I had with my mum, my cousin and a bunch of people going around various parts of du Parc. There used to be this cute little kids clothing store mum and I went to and I got these undershirts all the time and they used to come with big stickers of the logo (Ferries I think it was called). Oh and there's a beautiful saree/sari shop down there too. Or was. Oh oh! And the old radio station my cousin worked at for a few years is on the other side of a block near Parc....

It's next to impossible for you to have lived in Montréal and not heard of Park Avenue/Av. du Parc.

Us Montrealers have deep emotional attachments to our city's history and it's streets and such. *nods sagely*

If legislation does get passed, I'll go make myself a t-shirt reading: "It'll always be Park Avenue to me"...or something. And all three busroutes will get name changes (I mean there's three buses with "Av. du Parc" as a route name). The 80 was a cool bus.

To try and help non-Montrealers make sense of this, say one beautiful day Mayor Bronco decided to rename Crowchild Trail to Ralph Klein Trail. Without talking to the public about it. Or even better, he decided to rename Crowchild Trail or McLoed (I cannot spell it. =P) Pierre-Elliot Trudeau Trail. The cons would go bonkers for sure. Harper would come down too.

Then I realized, no one made outcries of "ARRRGH!" when they renamed highway 1 to Queen Elizabeth II Highway. So my examples aren't really at all concrete then.

Oh and I love the Canadian Museum of Civilisations btw.