This quarry in Montreal-Est is the last active quarry on the Island.  They've got about 20 more years to go before the remaining gravel is scraped out of the pit. Then we're going to have a rather big hole to fill. Any creative ideas for the space? Photos taken october 4th and november 26th

Shuttle bus owned and operated by the town of Montréal-Est. Photo courtesy of Montréal-Est Town Hall. Backed by a law that grants them a public transit monopoly in Montreal, the STM has halted one municipality's initiative to shuttle residents to the nearest metro station. Citizens of Montréal-Est were often left waiting at bus stops in the cold as 3 or 4 overflowing buses coming from the Eastern tip of the island passed them by. So beginning on November 17th, the municipality of Montreal-Est began a pilot program to shuttle local residents to the Honoré-Beaugrand metro terminus free ...

This Shell building at 10501 Sherbrooke East caught my eye, although I suppose any kind of architecture stands out amid the sea of smokestacks and petroleum tanks that make up most of Montréal-Est. This Shell Refinery is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

Vue de la rive du fleuve, près de l'avenue Broadway à Montréal Est. Photo prise le 26 novembre.

L’église Sainte-Germaine-Cousin, située dans l’arrondissement de Pointe-aux-Trembles, constitue sans aucun doute l’un des exemples d’architecture religieuse moderne les plus intéressants de l’île de Montréal. Construite par l’architecte Gérard Notebaert, elle se démarque par l’audace de ses formes ainsi que par sa forme pyramidale. Cette église, qui fut construite entre 1960 et 1962, témoigne du renouveau de l’architecture des églises du Québec. Après le concile Vatican II, tenu à la fin des années 1950, l’architecture religieuse connaît une intense période d’expérimentation. C’est dans ce contexte d’exploration que Notebaert construit ...