So Montreal has a mount, if not a mountain. A high hill that overlooks the city and is largely parkland (and a cemetery). So I took the bus up to it
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The main sight of the area is the huge St Joseph's oratory. Like many such catholic edifices built a century or so ago, it seems a massive white elephant. Most of the Catholics here did not seem local, but on bus tours from elsewhere in the world. Its cavernous interior is obviously not much troubled with worshippers. Catholics seem to love to pour money into grandiose ostentatious projects, rather like tinpot dictators do.
It is only the crypt that looks appropriate for an actual church service
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