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At its opening, Place Desormeaux was the largest mall in the South Shore [65] as well as the fourth in the Montreal area after Fairview Pointe-Claire, Galeries d'Anjou and Place Versailles. [66] Tenants in the 1970s included Steinberg's, the Bank of Montreal, Banque Canadienne Nationale, Reitmans, J B Lefebvre and Laura Secord Chocolates. [67]
First IKEA outside of Europe. IKEA withdrew from the market in 1987 because of stagnant sales, [9] then returned in 2006 by opening a store in Funabashi, Chiba under a distribution partnership with the Mitsubishi Corporation. [10] [11] 6 Germany: 1974 Eching [12] (near Munich) 54 IKEA's largest market. Berlin alone has four stores.
The 2014 novel The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe by French author Romain Puertolas features a trip to an IKEA store in Paris, France. [268] The 2014 horror comedy novel Horrorstör is set in a haunted store called ORSK, modelled on IKEA, and the novel is designed to look like the IKEA catalogue. [269]
The following is a list of notable shopping centres in Greater Montreal. Couronne Nord. Boisbriand. Faubourg Boisbriand [1] Deux-Montagnes / Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac.
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Quebec City in 2008, La Maison Simons gifted a restored fountain, the Fontaine de Tourny , imported from France. The fountain was originally positioned in Bordeaux 's Allées de Tourny, named after Aubert Tourny , a French intendant remembered for his contribution to the beautification of Bordeaux, Quebec ...
Riots in September 1981, occurring particularly in the Vénissieux neighborhood of Les Minguettes, were some of the first of their kind in suburban neighborhoods in France. In the summer of 1983, riots again occurred in Les Minguettes, attracting significant media attention, and marked the first time cars were burned as a protest in France.
Ville-Marie (French pronunciation: [vil maʁi]) is the name of a borough (arrondissement) in the centre of Montreal, Quebec. The borough is named after Fort Ville-Marie, the French settlement that would later become Montreal (now Old Montreal), which was located within the present-day borough. Old Montreal is a National Historic Site of Canada.
Urban Exploration Montreal - A 2004 photo and video documentation of the abandoned 9th floor; May 1931 issue of the Journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (Volume 8, Number 5) with photos and a brief architectural review of the restaurant shortly after it opened (Click View/Open and see pages 181-186 in the downloaded PDF file)