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Canadian Passport - How to Get a Passport within 2 weeks
As you all probably know by now, US will require Canadians to present a passport to enter US whatever your means of transport is.

There are 2 ways of applying for a passport:

Either by mailing an application to Passport Canada
or visiting a Passport Canada office and applying in person
Chatting with some of the employees at the passport office I’ve found that it takes a significantly shorter time to go to a passport office and apply in person. When you apply in person your application is verified on the spot, you don’t have to mail out your birth certificate and you receive your new passport by courier within 2 weeks. If you mail out your passport application you’ll receive your new passport within 3 months.

Although the press claims that Passport offices are overwhelmed with people and you have to wait for hours and hours, it took me less than an hour at the Ottawa passport office to finish the whole thing! The secret is to go nice and early and have your application filled out and ready. Right now the Ottawa office caters to 1,000 walk-in applicants per day. In January, 2008 they are expecting this number to increase to 5,000.

There is also a new guarantor policy that makes finding a guarantor a piece of cake! Anyone including family members can now be a guarantor as long as they have a valid non-expired Canadian passport.

So here’s a summary of my tips:

Don’t mail in your application, visit your nearest Passport office and apply in person.
Go early in the morning.
Don’t postpone applying for a passport until 2008.
Get anyone you know with a non-expired Canadian passport to be your guarantor.
Hope that helps

If anyone has any experience applying for a passport please share it with us.

 

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上面是搞笑的图
下边是蒙特利尔的停车处：自行车

 

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This is the view of the Montreal skyline, as we sailed up the St. Lawrence River, near the end of our voyage from Rotterdam. The Polish ship, the Stefan Batory, arrived at the dock in Montreal at exactly 8:00 AM, and it took three hours to get the vehicles, and all the people unloaded.

The RV was unloaded by a crane and a cable, then the Canadian Customs looked at absolutely nothing as we drove the RV, "overloaded" with luggage and boxes of goodies, out of the port building.

The had asked that the RV have almost no gasoline in the tank when it was loaded in Rotterdam, so we could not drive very far until we bought gasoline. We had no Canadian money yet, so we drove to the nearest gas station that took our Visa card.

 

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oldest skyscraper of montreal

 

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在古老的市中心

 

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The city's old fortifications with the modern part in the background
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以下介绍蒙特利尔的教堂，它们是蒙特利尔的特色建筑，当你迷路时，把它们作参照点吧。

St. Joseph's Oratory Facing Queen Mary Road


Metro Côte-des-Neiges - 3800 Queen Mary

A major site of Roman Catholic pilgrimage and worship, St. Joseph's began with the devotional impulse of a humble monk called Frère André. His original tiny chapel, begun in 1904, is still extant on the west side of the church shown here, which was begun in 1924 and finished in 1956. The dome is the world's second largest, after St. Peter's in Rome.

Religious visitors sometimes climb the steps in the middle, praying at every step; more pragmatic ones walk up normally or take one of the free shuttle buses from the base.

Inside there are essentially two large churches one atop the other, as well as side chapels including the candlelit hall leading to Frère André's tomb.

 

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Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica has nothing in common with Paris's except the name. It's a neogothic building dating from 1829, constructed on the site of a much older and smaller church which had been outgrown by its parishioners. Notre Dame is noted for its lavish and beautiful interior - stained glass windows, gold-tipped polychrome carvings, paintings, statues, and especially its lavish altarpiece. It also has a notable Casavant organ and its big bell, le Gros Bourdon, is the largest bell on the continent.

Old postcard of Notre-Dame

 

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Marie-Reine-du-Monde

René-Lévesque at rue de la Cathédrale

Completed in 1894, Montreal's Roman Catholic cathedral was designed as a 1/3-size replica of St. Peter's in Rome, down to a copy of Bernini's baldacchino over the altar. Even at this scale the church is pretty grandiose in effect. Everything echoes.

Inside, on the left, a gated crypt contains the tombs of the city's archbishops and cardinals, including that of Bishop Ignace Bourget, who spearheaded the project to build the cathedral. There are several large paintings of events in the history of Nouvelle-France and one detects no irony in passing from a depiction of the conversion of the "savage" to another showing a fiery attack on the colony.

 

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Notre Dame
de Bonsecours

Métro Champ-de-Mars - 400 rue Saint-Paul E., its back wall (left) facing the Old Port

First established in 1657 by Marguerite Bourgeoys, the current building dates from 1771; its façade dates from 1890. In 1998, restoration work revealed several beautiful murals that had been hidden for a century or more. The decor is simple but elegant, with a nautical flair deriving from the chapel's longtime vocation as the Sailors' Church. The hanging lamps in the form of sailing ships are especially pretty.

There is a museum and gift shop, and visitors can climb the tower for a good view of the Vieux-Port. Opening hours vary around the calendar; the phone number is 514-282-8670.

Old postcard showing view from the port

 

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Two Downtown Refuges

St. George's Anglican

1101 rue Stanley (entry by la Gauchetière) - Métro Bonaventure

Built in 1872, this neo-Gothic gem is now wedged between Windsor Station, the IBM building and Place du Canada. It's a truly pretty little church with lots of delicate decor, carvings, fancy font, wonderful stained glass.

St. Patrick's Basilica

460 René-Lévesque W. near Beaver Hall Hill (entry by side doors)

Regarded as the home church of Montreal's many citizens of Irish Catholic descent, this downtown church is less a tourist spot, more a quiet retreat for downtown workers in search of a little peace. Built in 1847, the tall, elegant Gothic structure has been extensively restored in recent years.The elaborate yet monochrome altarpiece, the heavy altar lamp with angels, and the stained glass are all notable features.

 

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http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/china/
中文版本蒙特利尔旅游网站

 

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蒙特利尔地下城
加拿大蒙特利尔地下城Montreal′s underground city

关键词：综合地下

背景：蒙利特利尔因为它每年4到5个月的冬季而闻名。由于有了地下城，商业区已经扩展了一年12个月中的商业和社会文化活动。

地理位置：这个长方形的，大约12平方公里的区域恰恰被卡在两个重要的地理景观中间。北面是皇家山脉(MONT-ROYAL)，南面是圣劳伦斯河。

商业：实际上，10个地铁站和两条地铁线与3万米的地下通道、室内公共广场、大型商业中心相连接。地下之城实际上就是另外一个蒙特利尔。为了避免上面的恶劣天气，每天有50万人进入到相互连接的60座大厦中，也就是进入到超过360万平方米的空间中，其中包括了占全部办公区域80%和相当于城市商业区总面积35%的商业空间。

历史：20世纪50年代，城市主要商业区开始形成。这里修建了拥有1040个房间的伊丽沙白女王酒店，集会中心正对RENE-LEVESQUEBOULEVARD，以前被称为道彻斯特(DORCHESTER)。

交通：提到地下城，就不能不提到蒙特利尔的地铁和它独一无二的特点。首先，地下铁路系统普遍位于地下10到15英尺，周围布满岩石。那些位于周边建筑物地下一、二层的中层空间用来作为过道或者行人自由活动区域，穿越邻近建筑物的地下层就可以进入车站。

 

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