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The McCord Stewart Museum is a delightful photography museum in downtown Montreal. I visited three of its exhibitions. Indigenous Voices of Today, part of the permanent collection, showcased more physical items than photos, but was quite interesting as the photos were of people wearing the displayed clothing.

Costume Balls: Dressing History 1870 to 1927, contained a good number of fancy dress costumes and photos of the women who wore them. The exhibit also explained that magazines of the time often contained drawings of possible dresses that women would copy for their own use. An image of the magazine drawing and a photo of a woman wearing a copy were set out side by side. You’ll note that portrait photography of the time was very formal.

Pounding the Pavement, Street Photography in Montreal was great fun as I love doing street photography. Photographers’ work was arranged by theme – so Daniel Kieffer’s photos were all of protests though I’m sure he shot more than that. Clicking on an image will give you a larger view.

Here are a couple of examples of my own street photography from today.

I took a VoiceMap walk of Montreal’s “golden mile” which was mostly about finances and famous people. VoiceMap sells pretty good and not too expensive self-guided audio tours that you can follow on your phone. It’s GPS enabled so if you stop to look at something, the audio stops too, and restarts when you reach the next place of interest.

It was commencement day at McGill University. The photo banner on this post is the main gate to the campus. It was a lovely day for graduating.

By far the best part of the day was my dinner with The Edible Other. I booked a food tour for Monday led by a Michelin trained chef who sent me a text asking if I was interested in the dinner. I was a bit suspicious since there was a part payment in advance, but after doing some research dived in. The dinner consists of five courses from around the world with a wine pairing for each dish and fascinating commentary from Chef Rob. There were 10 of us at the dinner which was, I think, in his own apartment, and by the end we were all great friends.

Chef Rob does not give out the location of the dinner until 24 hours in advance – this added to my initial doubts. And the text telling me where the dinner would be put my spidey senses on alert. The address was a 5 minute walk from my hotel.

I have blacked out the address as Chef Rob says it needs to stay VERY private. 🫣 Our entire group arrived early, afraid to be late, and had to wait in the hall. I peeked around the corner and was relieved to find that it looked promising. I mean all that wine on the counter … We were seated a few feet from the counter and could watch Chef Rob cook and the helper dress the dishes.

Here are our five dishes this evening.

And here are the four wines and one beer that went with our meal. And here is our happy group after dinner.

I cannot recommend The Edible Other highly enough! It’s not cheap, but it’s delicious and educational and fun!

This has been a long post and a long day. Bonne nuit. À demain.  🥱