Hi,
If you want costumes, the McCord Museum will probably be your best bet.
http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/. Check their online catalog as well. A
little hard to navigate, but they have many amazing items and they're not
all on display, at least not all at the same time.
The Pointe-à-Callière is interesting as well, but it's an archeology museum,
not a costume collection. No fabric there, but a visit of the first
settlements of the city. Lots of arrowheads, but also more recent stuff,
pottery, glass, other household items, all arranged by date, and the
fundations of the very old building underneath the museum.
http://www.pacmusee.qc.ca/indexan.html It's in the Old Port, so you can
visit the area too, although it's probably starting to be a little empty at
this time of year - and it will be windy too. There's a great Science museum
in the Port too.
You can also try the Stewart museum. http://www.stewart-museum.org/map.htm.
Few articles of clothing, but very, very interesting items, most in the 17th
to 19th century range, IIRC. Not very big, but the exhibitions are usually
very interesting.
If you want fabric, the usual location is on St-Hubert street, north of
Jean-Talon. It's the so-called fabric district. But there's a couple of
other places as well, out of the fabric district, for example a shop called
Rix Rax for buttons and notions. http://www.rixrax.ca/ (another annoying
QuickTime site - if you need the address, let me know).
I don't know of a good independant library. Most of them have been swallowed
up by Renaud-Bray and Archambault. There's Olivieri but it's out of the way
of major attractions. For used books and CDs, there's a few on Mont-Royal,
east of St-Denis. Mont-Royal, both east and west of St-Denis, is THE place
to go for used clothing - and used things in general. Some very fashionable
stuff too.
If you're still there December 2nd, the Salon des Métiers d'Art opens that
day. You'll have the cheesy artsy stuff, but also the very interesting
modern art objects to buy, as well as a few local fine food producers - some
of what they sell is not available in stores. Entrance is free.
Try www.montrealplus.ca for all (well... let's say a lot of) Montreal
activities.
If you're into food, take a trip to Jean-Talon market. Parking is not easy
so try to go during the week. The market itself and the streets around are a
real feast. Literally :-)
For general shopping, restaurants, those kinds of things... The French side
is St-Denis street, between Ste-Catherine and... oh... about St-Joseph. The
mixed, a little more chic street is St-Laurent, between Sherbrooke and
St-Joseph. (St-Laurent cuts Montreal in half - French on the East, English
on the West side, more or less). Where the English (and most tourists) go
for bars and restaurants is Crescent street, mostly between de Maisonneuve
and René-Lévesque. You can also try Ste-Catherine street from Peel street
down to about Berri street - and even down to Papineau.
But if you're looking for anything in particular (antiques, crafts, Japanese
food, paper, tea, fancy men's hats - whatever) let me know. I don't know a
lot of places, but maybe I can help - yes, I know, costumes and fabric and
books :-) Unfortunately, I do most of my shopping for those things online!
Other than that... frankly, we rarely know our own city very well :-)
Oh, and BTW, Canadian Thanksgiving is in October :-) It's long gone by
now...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeanine E. Swick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historic Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 9:37 PM
Subject: [h-cost] O.T. traveling to Montreal
I'll be in Montreal the week following Thanksgiving. What would be some
good sites/museums to visit? Costuming, unique fabric, books....
Jeanine
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