Eglise St-Viateur
Outremont
September 4, 2005 | 11:14 a.m.

I had just left breakfast on Avenue Bernard, the main drag of Montreal's Outremont section, when I walked past this church, Eglise St-Viateur. It was a quiet Sunday morning and parishoners were slowly making their way to worship.

I love architecture, though I'm not always a fan of churches. This one, however, I loved -- if only because the framing and the sky turned out just right. Montreal's famous for its churches. During a visit to the city in 1881, Mark Twain once famously declared, “This is the very first time I was ever in a city where you couldn’t throw a brick without breaking a church window.”