Comments on: Montreal Geography Trivia No. 4

By: Yul B.

Yul B. — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:36:38 +0000

Interesting. My MapArt book doesn’t have the Dorchester name for Montreal East on either the map or the index. But Google does.

Not the first error I’ve found with MapArt, either. I should write them and complain!

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:19:03 +0000

Bingo. Give yourself a pat on the back.

By: Alanah

Alanah — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:14:57 +0000

Got it! Group A all have segments in Pte-aux-trembles. Dorchester really threw me off, but there is a section of the old anglo name out east there!

As for Sherbrooke and Notre Dame, they do exist in pte-aux-trembles, but aren’t segmented…

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:19:58 +0000

The answer will come on Monday if nobody gets it by then.

Come on, just expand your horizons a bit.

Literally.

By: blork

blork — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:16:41 +0000

This quiz is dead. Givvis the answer!

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:04:05 +0000

I was about to give you a point for that, but there’s a St. Antoine in Lachine.

Try again, you’re getting warmer.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:41:28 +0000

Ok I think I got it. The names in group A are used on multiple streets within the city of Montreal. The names in Group B are unique to one street in the city of Montreal. There’s a Sherbrooke Street in Beaconsfield, so technically it belongs to Group B according to my phrasing, but it would be part of group A if you include the entire island.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:28:14 +0000

You are making an assumption. Try again.

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:27:40 +0000

How about this? The streets in group A switch from being one way to going in both directions. The streets in Group B are either all one way across their entire length, or they run in both directions their entire length….Except St Jaques switches to a 2 way street in NDG, which would put it in Group A, so I guess that’s wrong too!

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:21:11 +0000

Perhaps I’m making a false assumption myself, but it seems to me that it’s impossible to zoom in on ‘the neighbourhood they occupy together’, since Ontario and Dorchester (to take two) occupy neither the same borough nor the same municipality.

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:35:29 +0000

Blork,

one of your assumptions is wrong.

Here’s a way to test it:

1. Find the names in group 1 on a map
2. Zoom in to the neighbourhood they occupy together
3. You’ve made an assumption. Repeat from step 1.

By: blork

blork — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:58:18 +0000

I’m about ready to give up. Number 2 was about the fact that rue Ontario is divided up into different bits. That doesn’t work here, as Ontario is in the first group, along with Dorchester, which is NOT broken into bits (at least not with the same name) and is separate from the second group, which includes the chopped up de Maisonneuve.

So it’s not about one group being continuous and the other not. Nor is it about one group crossing different urban environments.

So I’m stumped. But I will blame it on the phrasing of the question, which asks “What do the following names have in common…” which implies it is the NAMES not the STREETS THEMSELVES that have commonalities and differences.

So you’ve confused me too much. It’s all your fault. ;-)

By: Christelle

Christelle — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:01:46 +0000

group a has unconnected parts? :P and not group b?? :P

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:32:29 +0000

OK, here you go then:

It’s somewhat related to MGT No. 2.

By: blork

blork — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:21:24 +0000

More hints! I’m really stumped on this. It’s not the orientation on the map, it’s not the one-way or two-wayness…

???

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:47:51 +0000

Edna, you fail AGAIN.

De Maisonneuve, St. Jacques and St. Antoine are all new names for old streets.

Come on, anyone? Do I need to give another hint?

By: Edna

Edna — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:40:46 +0000

Umn … they were all once known by other names?

By: Fagstein

Fagstein — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:41:29 +0000

Nope nope nope.

Here’s a hint: Sherbrooke and Notre-Dame could be placed in either category, depending on how you phrase the answer.

By: serge

serge — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:19:15 +0000

Group A goes north/south group B east/west.

By: Desmond Bliek

Desmond Bliek — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:38:42 +0000

My guess is that one could say that the metro runs under the latter group (at least in certain stretches), but I’m not entirely sure about Saint-Jacques. It’d have to be for only a short stretch between Vendome and Place-Saint-Henri stations.