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April 19th, 2008

Lower Town

Posted in Canada by Christopher DeWolf

On a quiet, cold weekend in Griffintown, the looming skyscrapers of downtown can seem like an illusion, so incongruous a backdrop do they make to the empty streets and dormant industry.

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