Bernard street

Bernard street in Outremont has once again been made pedestrian-only for the summer. It used to be and still is largely a neighborhood shared between the bourgeois francophones and the Hasidic Jewish population of Montreal. It's a beautiful area of stately homes and mature tree-lined avenues which tell visitor one better have a healthy income to live here. For the Hasidic population some of the homes have become multi-family dwellings in order to be affordable.

I like to come here sometimes and take in morning coffee over the sounds of birds, rustling trees and animated kids passing by while making their way to school.