de l’arrondissement de Ville-Marie Bulletin WINTER 2011 Your elected officials 3 Business news 4 Snow removal downtown 5 A map of your borough 6 Culture 8 This winter, have fun Sign up for winter activities 10 outdoors! ........................page 9 Credit : Tourisme Montréal Your borough at your service This winter, keeping the streets and sidewalks clear of snow will remain a priority for your borough. Our workers have already been busy for several weeks preparing equipment and planning routes to cope with snow and ice, to make sure that residents, workers and visitors can get around safely in the borough. We will also be paying special attention to outdoor sports facilities, so that they can be enjoyed by all ages. Read on and consult our website to see everything your borough is doing for you. Have a good winter and Happy Holidays! Make it your destination for fun, shopping, fine dining and Alain Dufort festivities! Director, Ville-Marie Borough E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemariesemballe • 12,000 businesses SHOPPING IN VILLE-MARIE • 1,500 restaurants • 35,000 indoor parking spots • 16 metro stations 2 - Winter 2011 Bulletin Your Borough Council wishes you all a happy New Year! In 2010, we went all out to improve the quality of services for you downtown. Our borough is changing quickly and Holiday hours attracting more and more residents. It Both Accès Ville-Marie and the permit counter will be closed from December 24 to is also being transformed by all kinds of January 4, inclusive. You can still call 311 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., however, if construction projects, many of which will you have any questions or comments. finally be completed in 2011. Quality of life downtown remains our priority. We want Household waste and recycling will be picked up according to the usual schedule. See our website for hours at sports, culture and recreational facilities. an even cleaner environment, one that is safer, more vibrant and more welcoming. The coming of the New Year E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemarie is also a time for me, on a more personal note, to wish you and your families much happiness, health and prosperity. Borough Council meetings If you would like to ask any questions of councillors, please sign up at the meeting starting at 6:30 p.m. Meetings begin at 7 p.m. Gérald Tremblay Mayor of Montréal Tuesday, February 8 – Council room, 888, boul. De Maisonneuve Est, 5th floor [email protected] Monday, March 14 – Council room, 888, boul. De Maisonneuve Est, 5th floor Monday, April 11 – Maison de la culture Frontenac, 2550, rue Ontario Est Jocelyn Ann Campbell Montréal City Councillor Saint-Sulpice District (Ahuntsic-Cartierville) [email protected] Richard Deschamps Montréal City Councillor Sault-Saint-Louis District (LaSalle) Executive Committee member [email protected] Accès Ville-Marie offices Sammy Forcillo Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Montréal City Councillor Peter-McGill District Borough Office0 City Hall [email protected] 888, boulevard De Maisonneuve Est, 5th floor 275, rue Notre-Dame Est Montreal (Quebec) H2L 2S8 Montreal (Quebec) H2Y 1C6 Permit counter ( 311 Pierre Mainville Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. B Champ-de-Mars Montréal City Councillor Except Wednesday,10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sainte-Marie District ( 311 [email protected] B Berri-UQAM François Robillard Click on to send us your comments and suggestions online: Montréal City Councillor E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemarie Saint-Jacques District [email protected] Published by the Ville-Marie Borough, Division des communications Circulation: 70 000 // Printing: JB Deschamps // Graphic design: www.gxcommunication.com 0 Wheelchair accessible // / Wheelchair accessible with companion // ( telephone // B metro // E website // �Hearing disability // �Visual disability Winter 2011 Bulletin - 3 Vua Sandwich Business news Designer : Jean-Pierre Viau Design Think about renovating: the city could reimburse 33% of your expenses! > Close to 60 merchants in the borough have invested in updating Succeeding in Montréal … Lots of their images, helping them to stand out from the competition. downtown merchants have renovated with the help of the PR@M-Commerce Mr. Ho, for example, owner of VUA SANDWICH, on rue Saint-Denis in the heart of the Latin Quarter: “The PR@M-Commerce program gave subsidy program! me access to advice and assistance from design and architecture professionals when I wanted to renovate my premises. The work The Ville-Marie Borough is supporting definitely added to the value of my business, and I already have lots of faithful, regular customers who come back to my restaurant time and assisting merchants and owners of after time.” commercial buildings through this very attractive program, by offering them For more information: (311 or E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemarie subsidies to renovate and upgrade their premises. Subsidies can be as much as one-third of the cost of eligible work. [before] [before] Le Comptoir de Cathy Estefan [after] Restaurant Crudescence [after] Designer : Demers et Bernier Architect : L’Atelier d’architecture L. McComber 4 - Winter 2011 Bulletin Snow removal downtown Handling all that snow is quite a challenge in a We need your help! downtown area like Montréal’s, with its some Remember that you can do your part to simplify things for municipal 200 kilometres of streets and 320 kilometres workers during snowstorms. How? of sidewalks. It’s a colossal task that calls for • Don’t shovel your snow onto hard work by nearly 170 municipal employees. the sidewalk or into the street • Leave your garbage bags and Traffic density, the many cars parked on main recycling containers on your streets and the number of major institutions property rather than on the that have priority for snow clearance all make sidewalk • Respect no-parking signs it a very complex operation. • Park your car parallel to the sidewalk and not on an angle For more information on snow removal, visit our website: A new winter brigade E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemarie A team of specially assigned workers will be roaming downtown streets this winter, to intervene rapidly at certain strategic spots. Credit : Megapress Thank you for your They will be spreading abrasives on the most highly travelled understanding sidewalks, removing ice from manhole covers and filling potholes, among other tasks. A snowstorm right in the middle of rush hour is a headache for drivers and snow-removal machinery operators alike. Using public transit makes it easier for everyone to get around and do their jobs. A new technique for de-icing sidewalks Year after year, Ville-Marie continues to seek the most efficient solutions to make sidewalks safer. This year, we are trying something new, in a limited area: a mixture of beet juice and salt. The benefit of this innovative blend is that it remains effective at very low temperatures and reduces the use of abrasives – all of which means less impact on the environment and equipment. For more information on snow removal and off-street parking during snow-removal operations, visit our website: E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemarie Winter 2011 Bulletin - 5 6 - Winter 2011 Bulletin Winter 2011 Bulletin - 7 Ville-Marie gives you access to high quality libraries and concert halls. Contact our facilities to get details Culture on their programs. Maison de la culture Frontenac 2550, rue Ontario Est 0 B Frontenac A key institution in the Accès culture network, the Maison de la culture Frontenac invites everyone to meet artists and admire their work. Theatre, dance, music of all kinds, film and visual arts. Over 45,000 audience members and visitors every year. Come see for yourself, it’s free! Frontenac Library Hours 2550, rue Ontario Est 0 B Frontenac Tuesday to Thursday, 1 to 7 p.m. Friday to Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Hours Monday & Friday, noon to 6 p.m. Information : (514 872-7882 or Tuesday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemarie/mcf and E accesculture.com Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Chapelle historique Information : (514 872-7888 or E ville.montreal.qc.ca/villemarie du Bon-Pasteur 100, rue Sherbrooke Est 0 Père-Ambroise Library Your chance to see some up-and- 2093, rue de la Visitation, Floor 3 0 B Beaudry coming musicians and international stars at this legendary concert hall. Hours Monday and Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Most concerts are free. Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Hours Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday & Thursday, 1 to 8 p.m. Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Friday to Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m. Christmas special, December 18 2 to 3 p.m. – (ages 4 to 8) Information : (514 872-5338 Hortense, la poule bigarrée survoltée (in french) Program details : E ville.montreal.qc.ca/chapellebonpasteur A fun puppet show by Brigitte Brideau 10 to 10:30 a.m. – (16 to 24 months) Centre d’histoire de Montréal Storytelling with Michel (in french) 335, place D’Youville 0 Paid admission Entertaining stories set to music Hours, Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information : (514 872-1633 Information : (514 872-3207 or E ville.montreal.qc.ca/chm Montréal Children’s Library Two exhibitions running until March 13 1200, avenue Atwater B Atwater Made in Montréal ? Our inquiring researcher, Mademoiselle B., takes you along Hours as she investigates some of the 4500 objects in the Centre Monday to Friday, 10 a.m.