What makes a rue a rue? Rue de la Police, a tiny little street that runs between Guy and Pierce has no street fronts with addresses on it. Why does it merit a name? Shouldn’t it by rights be an alley? I don’t think I’ll be insulting anyone by saying that it qualifies as the ugliest street I’ve travelled so far since no one really lives on it. The Commission de toponymie, the provincial government organization responsible for managing Quebec place names has a whole paragraph on the origin of the name. It takes longer to read the description than to walk the whole length of the street. The only redeeming feature is this mural.
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Megan
9/4/2016 05:40:32 pm
I walked down that rue many times without realizing it was in fact an official rue. I feel so enlightened!
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