Ok, enough of my very rusty and pathetic French. 🙂
Tomorrow I’ll be heading up to beautiful Montreal for the Quebec Library Association Conference. I’ll be giving a talk on the afternoon of May 4th entitled Building Collaboration with Wikis (the description — in English and French naturellement — is available in the program).
If you’re planning on going to the conference, let me know! I know no one there, so I’d love to have someone to eat lunch with at the conference. Or if you have any tips on “must-sees” in the city, I’d love to hear them. Adam and I aren’t staying long, but we plan to spend a good part of the day on Saturday walking around the city before heading home.
And, no, I will not be giving my talk in English and French! 😉
No bilingual talk?? Wimp!!
Hey, I’m sure I could do it if it were an ALL DAY WORKSHOP. Of course, the English version would still be just 1 hour long. 🙂
Well, if you’re just walking around for a day, then Mont Royal would be the place I’d pick.
Second choice if you’re willing to hop the subway would be the Botanical Gardens and Biodome.
I like Dorothea’s suggestions, and would add Old Montreal: take the metro to Champ-de-mars station (or walk, depending on where you’re staying), and wander Place Jacques-Cartier and the waterfront, see Notre Dame Basilica and tons of little art galleries, eat lunch at Olive et Gourmando (or Cobalt across the street, if the wait is too long).
Do readers from the Netherlands count too?
Kiddin.
Would love to visit Canada myself.
Have fun!
You could go visit my uncles and aunts and cousins there (I have lots — French Catholic family, what can I say?)
I’m very jealous! Here’s wishing you a great time in Montreal!
French? With a last name like Deschamps? I never would have guessed. 😉
I was going to suggest getting a smoked meat sandwich at the infamous Bens (aka Ben’s Deli), but am dismayed to discover that my favourite Montreal eatery closed last year 🙁 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben's_Delicatessen_&_Restaurant
I was at Bens on a road trip with the university band eating smoked meat the night that Ben Johnson won Olympic Gold for Canada — and the whole place cheered and everyone was so excited… (in case you are too young to remember the scandal: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/27/newsid_2539000/2539525.stm)
Okay, I digress. I love Montreal and I will chime in to agree with Dorothea’s suggestion and also insist that you eat Poutine at least once before you leave. Oh, you might also want to check out the suggestions on this wiki: http://wikitravel.org/en/Montreal
Tu as au moins une lectrice Québécoise!
Old Montreal is a tourist’s classic (and indeed really pretty), but if its a nice sunny day Saturday you might want to walk on St-Denis Street (from metro Berri-UQAM) for an animated street. That same metro station would allow you to visit the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec library building, recently built.
Oh Meredith — You may just as well call an Irishman a Scot! I am part Québécois and part Acadien with some Scottish to boot. (My Irish first name came from My mother thinking Ryan O’Neal from The Love Story‘s name to be so nice. Kind of like all the Jacquelyns that came out in the 60s).
Now Didier Deschamps — that’s a Frenchman. 🙂
My favorite eatery in Montreal is called Chu Chai — a fantastic vegetarian Thai place with a 12 page menu. It’s unbelievably good and very reasonable for Montreal (a city known for good — not cheap– food!). Located in the plateau area at 4088 Saint-Denis. (it was a 20 minute or so walk from McGill, through a pedestrian only nightclub area)
Have fun!
Would a kiwi froggie do?
Anyway, Quebecois is a French dialect quite hard to get used to if you have learned French at school. So there is no feeling sorry, I think. But the accent is ‘ tres mignon’.
Hope you enjoy Montreal!
J’espère que de nouveaux wikis québecois complèteront la liste de bibliowikis francophones que j’ai réalisé :
I hope that some new quebecois wikis will complete the list i made of french-speaking lis-wikis :
http://biblio.wikia.com/wiki/Bibliowikis
From what I see, people are rather using wikis for making small sites easily/ or for making short-term and small group projects.
Long term collaborative work, and editing unknown people’s content, is a dimension harder to set, and for the moment only Bibliopedia attempt it.
Shucks! I just left Montreal for the summer. My unfortunate LIS school schedule means I left the Seattle area just in time to miss the ALA mid-winter, and Montreal just in time to miss the QLA conference. Oh well, perhaps once I’ve graduated I’ll be able to attend some of these things more readily. Did you meet anyone from the McGill GSLIS?