This Town Has Weird Shops 

I can’t believe there was no Goldie after shot. I wanted the Pantene commercial moment.

Goldlie's suitcase segment is one of the most adorable things I've ever seen. your enthusiasm and nostalgia for the little guy is very infectious - I wish I could find the follow-up video :c

I think Plaza St-Hubert probably has the highest concentration of unique stores in the city. As a geographer, I maintain nothing will ever replace a map made by professional cartographers. A paper map is like a vinyl record. Aux Quatre Points Cardinaux to me is a brain and eye candy store. More please, especially quirky restaurants. Those are the ones we need to help out after they can reopen June 22. 🌈

There’s a button shop called Rix Rax on the corner of St-Hubert and Gilford on the Plateau. It sells sewing trimmings like zippers, lace, ribbons but mostly just buttons.

Are those little Teddies that the big teddies get to comfort them in the hospital?! Too cute!

There's another lamp shop I've walked past a few times called L'allumeur on Notre-Dame in the griffintown

When I was bringing mouldy Goldie to Canada (all the while wondering if I was introducing some foreign spores to the pristine Canadian ecosystem) I gave Goldie some air and introduced him and his travelling companion to a somewhat bemused young girl who was travelling to India with her father. Unfortunately my attempt to record this somewhat whimsical attempt to spark jealousy on your part did not survive my primative tech skills. Alas!

If you're interested, there is two Acadian restaurants in Verdun. Les Îles en Ville and Chez Jacquie et France. Verdun has a large population of Madelinots, people from the Magdalen Islands, in the gulf of St. Lawrence. There's actually more people in Verdun that have ancestry from those islands than there is living there. So best place for seafood in Montréal, personal opinion. You can even eat seal meat too. Maybe not weird/strange, but unique at least.

We want Goldie ! We want Goldie !

HAHAHAH the Goldie outfits segment made my day. I laughed out loud

Show us Goldie

Great video. Regarding durability : My Ikea table and chairs (granted, the fabric was changed), a hutch and a buffet were bought 25 years ago in Germany and shipped to Canada in a container (don't ask) ... Still fine today.

Librarie Michel Fortin has international books and sold me a French text book from France back then. You can order other language text books from this store as well. This is a very niche library, I think no other library in Montreal sells a Cornelsen or Klett book to learn German. Then there is la belle province which seem to be a resto chain but the signs look different and my friend from Montreal Nord said: "ah go to La belle Province" and I was like "which one?"

Paige! Great vid and hilarious inserts. This should really be an entire series and you should pitch it to Historia channel (our weird Quebecois history channel)

I'm going to La Maison de l'Aspirateur toute suite and buying that shirt

I've been to Quatre Points to get road-trip maps of specific areas before leaving when I'm going somewhere I don't have cell service! Feels better than trying my luck at gas stations en route.

i can't believe Goldie never made a return :( unless there were complications at the hospital and he never made it.

Ive totally been at Wilensky's light lunch before the lock down, I found out they dont take credit and had to go to coffee shop across the street to use the ATM haha I will point out mile end has also become the new sort of tech hub, as I work there, they repurpose the old mill and factory buildings into some 'hipster' office space, and for the most part if you have a place to plug in a computer and can hook up a good internet connection your golden. Which may create the illusion of tourists as often times tech companies will just import the labor they want

Hello Paige. I'm a new subscriber and came across your vlogs via a jump from another Canadian vlogger looking at the Canadian rail system. Three hours later, I am still watching your vlogs, not a complaint but a compliment to your ideal timed sized vlogs of 13 mins for the most part (for those that I've watched so far), subject and easy access to meat of the matter. I may have missed it, or you may not have mentioned it in the vlogs I've watched so far but your accent fascinates me. As near as I can tell there are some similarities to a Boston accent on words like car or caah :) and your vlogs have a lot of American TV references. I think I am also hearing a bit of Australian in the mix on your lower pitch in the Quebec's Video Game vlog. I say this all to ask is this a typical (anglo) Canadian accent?

i saw a cool shop last weekend that was all lamps edit: ITS THERE ITD IN THR VIDEO

In san Francisco we have a pirate supply store

I still buy Lonely Planet books and paper maps. You can think what you like about that but I just find it more comfortable to handle them and easier to quickly refer to them. It may take the death of the last baby boomer to finish that shop.

mars would have topped this list if it was still open

How dare you introduce that whole Goldie thread and not include the payoff. That's RU-vid terrorism!

Those are some pretty cool money laundering fronts. Much more imaginative than manicurists.

always see tons of abandoned giant bears on @fucknomtl. wtf? is it all the mcgill students??

Waffle House and huddle house are lunch counter type restaurants and I don’t think they are going anywhere .

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Do you remember the Dyson we used to clean the townhouse project I was project managing? We still have it and it's still going. I would guess 15 years old!!