Wow, I lived on 25th and D'Herelle, instead of turning left like in the video, you would have turned right and it was the 6th duplex down on the same side of the street, our landlord was Mr Longo. Pino pizzeria is just to left at the corner. I had a bunch of kids that all played on the street, it may even be me on the bike in front of the camera....so odd to find this
The Olympic Stadium was being built over budget,quickly and with lots of problems! Later on after the Olympics,200 ton pieces of cement fell off that frame!Lucky no one was around! The retractable roof design never worked.Basically the place was a disaster!
there's no way this video is 1975.. are u telling me that place is a skeleton, and the following yr, it's ready for the 1976 olympics?? NO WAY. unless i am way off here, how can a place as big as the Big O be built and ready in 1 yr or less? doesn't a stadium take 3 or so yrs to build? maybe this vid is 1973 not 1975.
This was just one year after French became the sole official language of the Province of Quebec, losing it's official bilingual status. And I think in that year, or maybe in 1977, the city of Montreal also lost it's official bilingual status. Note: I'm referring to the City of Montreal (proper), not the entire island of Montreal. But basically, in terms of linguistic balance, the city and island of Montreal was better back in the 1970s, than today, about 40 years later ! It's a shame in my eyes, especially as English is my native language and my only language too.
I don't think Quebec was ever officially bilingual but it certainly had more English visible on things. Not sure if Montreal was officially bilingual but English was certainly treated like an official language back then.
Well, when I said Quebec was officially bilingual, I really that it was bilingual by de facto. It didn't really have an official language or languages. The use of English and French in the Provincial Parliament was governed by the British North America Act of 1867.
Francophones will never admit that Mtl went down after 1976! You can feel it on the shit roads and highways, the education and healthcare... The will always have that inferiority complex even with the French people!
All French Quebecois should've been assimilated into the English speaking majority decades ago, if you ask me. It happened in America. And the important benefit of that assimilation was the establishment of one nationwide language, with no language barrier or language conflict. Because in the USA, English is the one official un-deniable language. I think that French Quebecois should start to begin to question whether it is actually worth keeping up their backward language wars, when about half of people in the Province of Quebec, both Anglophones and Francophones, have knowledge of English. The knowledge of English as a percentage of the Provincial population is growing year by year. People may argue that Quebec's culture will dissapear if French becomes a minority 1st language in the Province. But the truth is, only a part of it will die, for Quebec culture isn't all about French Quebecois culture is it? It certainly isn't. Montreal used to the New York City or Big Apple of Canada, as recently as the 1970s (4 decades ago). Despite attempts by the Parti Quebecois and other anti-English Quebecois nationalists to rewrite history, even if their version of history is false, the architecture has always been influenced by British, French and American architecture. Grand buildings, both recent and older, going back at least 2 centuries are present all around the city, reminding people of it's great bilingual history. Don't listen to anybody who says its French city. For for about 3 decades in the 1800s, from 1830s to 1860s, the city had an English speaking majority.
Actually, not really. Having English as an officially language in every single Province of a country (It doesn't to be the only officially language of every Province so for example English and French can be co-official in Quebec at Provincial level), makes the running of country much more efficient and reduces the risk of geographical language barriers. Of course, in the Province of Quebec and northern New Brunswick, you weren't assimilated into the English speaking majority of the country, Canada, but you've gotta realise something. As recently as 1971, at least 16.5% of Quebecers spoke English as their 1st language, not French, a very big minority. In 1976 on the island of Montreal alone, about 25.6% of people spoke English as their mother tongue. This is not including immigrants, who made up 13.5% of Montreal Island's population in 1976, but the majority of immigrants were learning and thus assimilating into English speaking Canada, because English was the working language of Montreal back-then. In fact, about 59% of people on Montreal island spoke French as their mother, which almost 6 out of 10. But of course, the French Quebecois, about 81% of Quebec's population in 1971, wanted to stamp out minority languages, especially English, because that's what the French like doing. I mean France, from the early 19th Century, all the way until the 1960s, had a policy to encourage the language shift of all language minorities including Germans in the Alsace and Lorraine, Occitans in southern France, Bretons in Britianny and Dutch in French Flanders, into French-Speaking citizens, even though, back in 1791, only half of the population of France could speak French. A bigger percentage of people speak French as their 1st language in France, than in Quebec and it was always that way, since the 19th Century ! Even today, the population that speaks English as a 1st language (and I am aware that some of those people are bilingual in English and French or another language, but a minority of the English language minority in Quebec ), makes up 13.7% of the Provincial population, as of 2016, but the Province has officially and technically outlawed English. They only allow municipal English signage and commercialism in municipalities and counties were at least 50% of people speak English as a 1st language. But it has to be 50% or above, if it isn't then the language come in and tell the municipal or county council that the Bilingual signage has to go and French-only from then on. This alienates English speaking people, of all ancestral backgrounds. The language police harass businesses too, all around the Province, from small family owned businesses to multi-national corporations. The language Police, the language laws Bill 22 and Bill 101 and anti-English Canadian sentiment from French Quebecois from the mid-1970s onwards, resulted in 300,000 English speaking Quebecers leaving the Province in the next 2 decades. Basically, a exodus of people leaving their homes, where most of whose families had lived for generations and moving elsewhere within their own country. Last of all, 1867, when Canada first became a country, a quarter of Quebecers spoke English as their 1st language. I'm not making this up. I found statistics that say this.
Impossible that it was in 1975 because the display of ARRÊT STOP signs appeared only after the adoption of Bill 101 in 1977 in municipalities in Quebec.
You understand that you can see Olympic Stadium being built for the 1976 Olympics right? The people in the video, I know very well, they were married in 1975. Nice try detective. Don't tell me it's impossible.
@@calixa The Olympic Games was in 1976 but the law 101 for French on STOPs only happened in 1977. My opinion is that this film was shot in two years of difference? People kept the rolls in the super8 camera like photo cameras until it was done to get them developed.
