Cee's Which Way Challenge

Cee's Which Way Challenge
Roads: gravel, asphalt, cobbled, dirt, freeway, expressway, highway, bridges
Indoor walkways: hallways, aisles, people movers
Outdoor walks: sidewalks, paths, trails
Stairs, elevators, escalators, or steps: indoors, outdoors
Railway tracks, monorails, ski lifts
Runways and starmacs
Ferries, canals and lochs
Parking lots, private driveways
Tunnels
Signs of any kind: directional, informational, store signs, wind vanes
Maps that are posted as signs

August 2018 - Montreal QC

We recently spent a weekend in Montreal.

Definitely Go West, Young Man!!

Montreal is just one large orange construction cone!

Central Station

Victoria Bridge

Ended or not ended?

Friday Finds

Starts with C
2. building
3. something I wear

The first will be the same, except we’ll work our way through the alphabet. The second and third will be different each time.
Hosted by Friday Finds and this is V4 or round 4!!!

Also playing along at ABC Wednesday

A-Z Guidebook is also travelling its way around the world and runs from the 15th to the 22nd of each month.

Eh to Zed

For this round of the alphabet I am going to celebrate Canada's 150 birthday by showcasing towns across the county.
I'm starting the Maritimes since there seems to be a multitude of small picturesque towns.

This week's letter is

Chéticamp is a fishing village on the Cabot Trail on the west coast of Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia at the western entrance to Cape Breton Highlands National Park which contains Acadian Trail. The Cheticamp River flows into the Gulf of St. Lawrence approximately 5 km northeast of the village. The community has almost 4,000 residents, a large majority of whom are Acadians and speak French natively.

Some bonus Cs from the area.

BUILDING  there is no end of building going on in Toronto. Every spare inch downtown is becoming a condo.
Snapped this from the bus as I headed downtown.

Something I wore - finally into summer clothes this week. John took this last Saturday at the City Hall art show.

December City Theme

This month's theme is TRANSITIONS -  Linking up with City Daily Photo.

November 2016 - Toronto ON

This one's for William, yes, Union Station is STILL under renovations!

I took these this week.


Considering the number of people who have passed through Union Station, the edifice has held up well. But the almost century-old facility is showing its age: much of it is in disrepair — peeling paint, cracked, damaged floors, leaky roofs and tired-looking passenger concourses that evoke the 1970s — space is used inefficiently, and the facility no longer meets the needs of today’s commuters.

The original entrance to the train platforms, I'm assuming they will leave this as is.

Union Station's revitalization is a $640-million initiative supported by investments of $164 million from the Government of Canada, $172 million from the Government of Ontario, and $340 million from the City of Toronto.

 Everywhere you look, inside and outside work is being done.

Union Station's revitalization will result in many benefits to commuters, including bigger, brighter transit concourses, more exits and entrances to the station, new PATH connections, repair and rehabilitation of an aging facility, and the introduction of an exciting and revitalized retail presence.

York concourse was finished last summer in time for the Pan Am Games and is a much brighter, more efficient space.

Cloud Gardens

Saturday Snapshots is hosted by West Metro Mommy. 

November 2015 - Toronto ON

I mentioned in this post that I would post more photos from the Cloud Gardens tucked away among the skyscrapers and behind the Bay (Hudson's Bay Company).

The Monument to Construction Workers by artist Margaret Priest holds a commanding presence.

Completed in 1994, contributions were made by 25 different trades throughout Toronto in 1m x 1m squares. Contributions include work with concrete, rubble, brickwork, stainless steel, glass and zinc.

It is like a concrete quilt of memories.

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“I wanted the monument to take the mystery out of the construction industry because a lot of it’s hidden,” says Priest in an interview that can be heard at the City of Toronto’s website.

 The descriptive plaque states: “The Monument reflects the contributions, seen and unseen, of construction workers to life in the city. It was created through the unique collaborative process in which the panels were designed by artist Margaret Priest and built by the members of The Building Trades Union.”

The electricals, the pipes, the foundation. So much of what a construction worker does is hidden. I wanted to pull that into a public site and make a museum of it, and the museum is this wall. The unfilled squares in this grid have a very particular place to play. The absence talks of ruin and loss, and it also speaks of the future – of what might be there.”

There is a reason it is called the Cloud Gardens. There is a tropical oasis hidden up this staircase and behind the memorial.

Quelle surprise!! Situated over a parking garage entrance is this mecca of quiet and serenity. I could imagine spending winter lunch hours in here with a book if I worked in the area.

Monday Walks 

Friday My Town Shoot Out Jun 13

Jun 13: Scavenger Hunt: High above, Facing Straight and Down Below - Show us these three plains wherever you are. Take a shoot looking up (sky, ceiling, tree branches, etc), then a shot facing straight, and lastly one looking down (earth, grass, floor, etc).

May 2014 - Toronto ON

The area outside Union Station on Front St. is under construction since forever. 

Union Station is Canada's busiest, most important multi-modal passenger transportation hub, a designated National Historic Site and a significant part of Toronto's history and identity. More than a quarter-million people use Union Station daily. The City of Toronto is leading Union Station's revitalization with three objectives: to improve the quality and capacity of pedestrian movement; to restore heritage elements; and to transform Union Station into a major destination for shopping, dining and visiting.

I took these photos standing in the same spot.

High above - the financial district's banking towers.

Facing straight

Down below

Friday My Town Shoot Out - May 2 CONSTRUCTION

I'm posting over here this week.

Theme - CONSTRUCTION

In Toronto we have two seasons, winter and construction!! The Gardiner Expressway, the southern east west highway into the city was closed last weekend to get it ready for some major construction work.

It passes by our condo so we have a bird's eye view.

Here is a Youtube video (rather long) showing driving into Toronto from the west before the construction.
It passes our condo at the 3:29 mark.

Gardiner closed last weekend in preparation for work.

On Monday morning the left lanes on both the eastbound and westbound Gardiner were closed between Park Lawn Road and Strachan Avenue. The closures are part of long-term construction work on the Gardiner that will continue through to 2016.

 Oh yes, there's other construction in the bottom right of this photo - TTC Toronto Transit Commission is working on the street car tracks.