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posted February 11, 2007

Montreal Gets Winter

Patrick Mullin for Metro Toronto:

I was walking along Montreal’s salt-stained Avenue Laurier when I spotted it. Fire! Yes, deep inside the wooded Parc Lahaie, cheery against the dim of a fading winter afternoon, there were not one, but two untended bonfires blazing.

This doesn’t happen in safety-crazed Toronto, where Dufferin Grove Park regulars are pleading to keep their beloved rinkside fires, and where there are actually signs reading “Caution: Water’s Edge” at a place called “Harbourfront.” So I stopped to investigate. Over the course of 15 minutes, about a dozen locals came through the park, many of them stopping briefly to warm up. That’s when it dawned on me — Montreal “gets” winter.

Thanks to Wallie Seto for finding this

Comment on Patrick Mullin's article from Montreal student Roxi Bechmann: I haven't seen those specific untended fires, but I have definitely seen other fairly unattended fires especially in the evening. There are a lot of festivals and festival-esque community things around here, and every one of them has an outdoor fire or two.


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