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AUTHOR: HAROLD GELTMAN May 1,2007---
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SUBJECT: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS CANADIAN ART PAVILLION IN THE FORMER ERSKINE AND AMERICAN UNITED CHURCH, 3407 &
3q07A du Musée Avenue PUBLIC CONSULTATIONS: April 17,2007 and May 8,2007 at the #1414 office of the "Consultation" ystelle Beaudry:l-514-872-8510,Information
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Harold Geltman est un citoyen Canadien qui partage son temps avec plusieures domaines d'intérêtd avec le but d'amétiorer différents items de la qualité de vie. à l'héritage culturelle de cette site, Pour rendre justice le mémoire est écrit en anglais avec la réalisation que toutes les travaux et futurs de cet projet s e r o n t l u s
et seront offert en anglais et français et avec possibilité d'autres langues. La 4ième page est en français et parle aux MONTREALAIS: sur sa comportement. INTRODUCTION 1 am not an amateur nor a professional in the realm of ART. My mother was the artist in the family and 1 am responsible for trying to translate her wishes with respect to the future of WOMEN and ART. While painting and collecting came easy for my mother,it is not as easy to carry out her wishes,but there is much
work to be accomplished. 1 have memories of attending various religious and nonreligious events in the Erskine and American Church and area.
But particularly.1 remember my many many walks along Sherbrooke street and taking a few minutes to stop and read the sayings posted on the Church bulletin board.THANK YOU. 1 have not consulted the file nor the documents made available by the OCPM.1 assume that there i s available some history Church,the origins of its name and other relevant data to the of the future of the building. RECOMMENDATION In appreciation of what the Erskine and American Church did for Montrealers,pedestrians and interested observers with the many years of its established outdoor panel calling upon a minute of reflection,I believe that Montreal should take al1 the required steps to secure the relevant place and time within the proposed museum to display the history of the geographical site,the history of the church,history of the name ERSKINE and AMERICAN and a few examples to give thanks of the many phrases and sayings posted on the outside,
and how that came to be. QUESTION: Who made the decision to limit and/or name the museum with
respect to Canadian art? Does this have to do with the origins of the
name ERSKINE and AMERICAN? 1 s the decision irreversible?
QUESTION: What was the influential role of the names ERSKINE and American through the years? Did it have anything to do with American tourists and/or American tourisms and American interests? 1 think we ought to be careful to not alienate something that perhaps once functioned in favour of GREATER MONTREAL. For example, in 1953, pitcher Car1 Erskine of the Brooklyn Dodgers, (verify if he ever played for the Montreal Royals) led the National League with a 20-6 won-lost record and a .769 average and in that same
year Brooklyn Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella delivered a .312batting
average,with 41 home runs and a league leading 142 RBI=runs batted in. ERSKINE and CAMPANELLA brought great faith to many young kids of that year,which happened to be the fifth win for the NEW YORK YANKEES in consecutive WORLD SERIES,before Toe Blake and the Montreal Canadiens dynasty came along,while respecting the 1953 Canadiens Stanley Cup win Meserole,editor,l989,
of 1953. (Source: 1990 Sports almanac..Mike
Houghton Mifflin Company Boston: pp53-70)
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PUBLIC CONSULTATION, may 1,2007
INTRODUCTION (al1 names and statistics subject to verification) Let me put it this way. Suppose the RICHARD and CANADIAN
United Church on some corner of fifth avenue in New York City was designated to be converted into a MUSBUH OF AMERICAN ART, would the Canadian people feel slighted? True Casey Stengel's 5 in a row WORLD SERIES wins in the 1949-1953 years was a record before Toe Blake's 5 in a row 1956-1960 years of the STANLEY CUP,but neither team matched the 8 in a row of the Boston Celtics and Red Auerbach £rom 1959-19h6. 1 am trying to give you an idea of the role of the influence of sports in the northeast and the enthusiasm it inspired amongst the people of Boston,
New York and Montreal in those years from 1949-1966. New York city was represented i n the World Series £rom
1949-1964 a total of 15 times out of 16 years,and the only missing
year was 1959 when the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago a former New York City team.
WQite Sox. The Dodgers,being
These were the golden years for New York City,which became the city to emulate world-wide.because j t put together a formidable athletic KNOW-HOW IN THE WORLD OF BASEBALL which radiated not only in the 5 boroughhuEhe rest of the United States,Canada and the rest of the world.whathbaseball did for New York City is what New York City did for SPORT CITIES AROUND THE WORLD. What the ART WORLD did for New York City is what it couldn't do in Europe and that was to be brought together with so many other parts of the culture of a metropolitain city, much like baseball grabbed New York City by its shins and roised the city to be envied,detested and gawked at not because it had GREAT MUSEUMS,BUT
BECAUSE IT PULLED OFF SO MANY GREAT SPORT YICTORIES GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE OVER
IN THE WORLD OF BASEBALL AND THAT WAS
WHELMING MAJORITY OF THE PEOPLE. BASEBALL in those days was truly THE WORLD SERIES OF SPORTS,before the fractionalisation of sports and fractionalisation of television removed the magnetic quality of appreciation. I've taken the few minutes of your time to explain why
the sport fans of Montreal have put themselves in such an awkward world-wide position. Montreal can not be great when a City is divided against itself. The Sports World nor the Art World can not deliver something that rides above
division,when the purpose of the division is to deprecate,d&viate and alienate.
Montreal i s paralyzed from within itself because of an
inability to design,find and build a winning cultural-athletic
formula that can over-ride the seething divisiveness between the
two triads of: CANADIAN NATIONHOOD AND QUEBEC NATIONHOOD,
CANADIAN AUTONOMY and QUEBEC AUTONOMY and QUEBEC SOVEREIGNTY and CANADIAN SOVEREIGNTY. This fight
to the finish of clandestine,covert
and overt fundamental differences is tearing apart the athletic and Montrea1,and the more we try to cover it up, the cultural scene of more mistakes we make,affecting
al1 other lifestyles and decisions. Maybe Montreal's days 01 winning are over. Maybe the winnings of the 21st century are no longer to be athletic ones.
Maybe professional sport spoiled itself and ruined so many other ancillary support systemsd but it pains me to have to watch,hear
and observe so many decisionsphon-decisions that have not been thoroughly thought through. Our objective should be t o b u i l d the greatest good for the greatest number in the overwhelming majority of Our workings, without forgetting the small numbers. Al1 of our thinking and projects should be dovetailed towards uniting al1 Montrealers,all Québecers and al1 Canadians for annjversary
the objective of BRINGING BACK THE WORLD T O EXPO '67 50th to AGAIN MAKE EXPO THE GREATEST WORLD FAlROF THE "21ST CENTURM
IN 2017. 2017 i s our year on the WORLD CALENDAR.IF WE LET THIS GO BY, WE WILL HAVE DOOMED OURSELVES TO A LOSING CITY MADE UP OF A LOSING PEOPLE. The greatest symbol that speaks LOUD AND CLEAR FOR THE PEOPLE OF MONTREAL IS THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER GEODESIC DOME. IL i s Our
Building,our Tour Eiffel and we continuously downplay it Empire State because it was A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Let me put it this way: Montreal and MONTREALERS are obsessed with a tyrannical wish to not be anything and everything American,which has almost become a n incurable disease eating away at al1 of the good the city has to offer.
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THAT I S THE ERSKINE & AMERICAN ART PAVILLION
.) S e n d o u t i n v i t a t i o n s t o t h e 5 0 A m e r i c a n S t a t e s
t o come t o M
ontreal
one s t a t e p e r y c a r f o r t h e n e x t 5 0 y e a r s f o r t h e purposes of e x h i b i t i n g t h e known a n d unknown a r t i s t s o f e a c h o f t h e 5 0 S t a t e s , 2 ) E a c h S t a t e c a n b r i n g i t s own c u r a t o r a n d n e g o t i a t e a r e a s o n a b l e a n d w o r t h w h i l e r e n t a l f e e w i t h t h e M o n t r e a l museum o f F i n e A r t s a n d c i t y o f m o n t r e a l i LONG-TERM DISCOUNT R GEODESIC DOME G I F T L I N K .
3 ) T h e o b j e c t i v e i s t o r e c i p r o c a t e a n d p a y b a c k t h e k i n d n e s s g i v e n t o C a n a d i a n s when t h e C a n a d i a n b o y s f o u n d j o b s i n t h e A m e r i c a n c i t i e s o f N e w Y o r k , e h i c a g o , D e t r o i t a n d B o s t o n f o r t h e 5 0 y e a r s of hockey b e f o r e t h e o t h e r Canadian teams j o i n e d t h e expansion o f t h e N a t i o n a l Hockey L e a g u e . 4 ) T h e o b j e c t i v e i s t o r e c i p r o c a t e a n d p a y b a c k t h e t i m e a n d s p a c e
g i v e n t o C a n a d i a n a r t i s t s i n t h e U n i t e d S t a t e s a n d m o r e p a r t i c u l a r l y
t h e c u l t u r a l a r t i s t s of t h e l i k e s o f : André- Philippe G
agnon,
C é l i n e D i o n , C i r q u e d u S o l e i l a n d many o t h e r s t h a t h
a v e b r o u g h t
Canada g r e a t e r
C a n a d i a n World r e c o g n i t i o n b e c a u s e of t h e r e c e p t i o n and openings g i v e n t o Canadians i n t h e U
nitedStates.
5 ) T h e o b j e c t i v e i s t o b e g i n EXPO 2 0 1 7 , t e n
years before t h e g a t e opens
i n 2017 w i t h t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n of a l 1 k i n d s of o f f e r i n g s and e x p e r i m e n t a l i n v i t a t i o n s i n t h e MONTREAL EXPO 3.017 QUADRANGLE: PARC JEAN DRAPEAU--STADE OLYMPIQUE4JAKDIN BOTABIQUE--VIEUX PORE R
VIEUX MONTREAL--CANAL DE LACHINE & LAC ST.LOUIS
.
6 ) THE ERSKlNE & AMERICAN ART PAVILLION OF THE MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS w o u l d b e a p e r f e c t e x a m p l e o f how t h e i s l a n d o f M o n t r e a l
w o u l d c o m p l i m e n t t h e o b j e c t i v e s o f EXPO 2 0 1 7 a n d v i c e v e r s a . 7 ) W i t h 9 - 1 0 y e a r s o f e x p e r i e n c e p r i o r t o t h e o p e P i n g o f t h e EXPO 2 0 1 7 , i t w o u l d s e t i n m o t i o n a t r a i n o f momentum a r o u n d t h e
W o r l d w h e r e b y M o n t r e a l w o u l d r e p a i r t h e d a m a g e o f i t s LOGEXPO ' 6 7
by g i v i n g t h e W o r l d t h e o p p o r t u n i t i e s t o n e g o t i a t e t h e i r own a r r i v a l s
and s t a y s i n a l 1 k i n d s of i m a g i n a t i v e ways a n d means.
8 ) The
o b j e c t i v e would b e t o r e p a i r t h e n e g l i g e n c e g i v e n t o t h e A m e r i c a n p e o p l e ' s r o l e i n t h e a r r i v a 1 o f t h e g e o d e s i c dome w h i c h
g a v e t h e STAMP OF APPROVAL f o r t h e A m e r i c a n s t o come t o M o n t r e a l
i n r e c o r d n u m b e r s . T h e ERSKINE & AMERICAN ART PAVILLION w o u l d b e a s m a l l way o f s a y i n g THANK Y O U . Do y o u r e m e m b e r t h e m a n y p h o t o s h a n g i n g f r o m t h e c e i l i n g o f t h e g e o d e s i c dome a n d how t h e p e o p l e r e a c t e d t o t h a t f o r m o f a r t ?
America g a v e l e g i t i m a c y t o t h e POSTER GENERATION a s l e g i t i m a t e ART.
9 ) W i t h r e s p e c t t o t h e o n e y e a r term f o r c u r a t o r s , t h e a r t c o a c h o f t h e
A m e r i c a n a r t t e a m s . A n o t h e r o p p o r t u n i t y t o s a y t h a n k you f o r t h e j o b s
given t o coaches: Rernard Qeoffrion,Michel Bergeron, Jacques Lemaire,
Michel Therrien,Alan Vigneault, Denis Savard, Claude J u l i e n ,
L a r r y R o b i n s o n a n d t h e many many o t h e r s t h a t a r e t o b e m e n t i o n e d
a n d t h a t h a v e come £ r o m b i r t h a n d a o r w p r k i n Q
uébec.
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A f i r s t s t e p i n r e p a i r i n g t h e d a m a g e when t h e M o n t r e a l e r s a l l o w e d t h e m s e l v e s t o b e a n t i - a m e r i c a n i z e d i
' n t h e i r s e n d i n g
t h e Montreal Expos o u t of t h e c i t y , w h i l e keeping t h e s o u v e n i r
of t h e u n i l i n g u a l f r e n c h p l a q u e of J a c k i e R o b i n s o n . ( v e r i f v if t h p r p
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, - i s a n e n g l i s h v e r s i o n o f t h e p l a q u e a n d i f i t was b i l i n g u a l
from t h e o u t s e t . )
What w i l l h a p p e n t o t h i s b r i e f , t h e i d e a a n d t h e s u g g e s t i o n s ?
W i l l t h i s b e c a t e g o r i z e d a s a n o t h e r IDEA FROM LE HAROLD DE LAVAL,
ANOTHER IDEA FROM LE HAROLD DE LA RUE LOUISEVILLE DE LAVAL,,and b e
g i v e n a PALINDROME R O N D POINT TREATMENT O F " B E I N G SHOT DOWN, i n t h e h i s t o r i c a l t r a d i t i o n o f PIERRE LAVAL £ r o m FZaance?
How many t i m e s
h a s M o n t r e a l u s e d a n d l o r b e e n u s e d b y t h i s LAVAL e s c a p e r o u t e t o boondoggle Harold Geltman and n
o o d M o n t r ~ a li d p a s ?
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LA POLITESSE MONTREALAIBE
Les Montrealais devront investir dans la politesse mondiale pour les prochaines 10 ans. h'ous avons besoin de nous inventer un atmosphère de comportement qui permet toute la population de servir l a cause de 1'EXPO 2017 comme ceci sera notre propre maison. Imaginer des concours de po1itesse;de.s évenemenb de diplomatie; des JEUX DE COURTOISIE; beaucoup plus facile de faire la lutte pour faire étendre la politesse que de faire la guerre au rndesse. 0
Pourquoi voulons-nous faire un musée dans une église? Parcequ'ont ne saicnt pas quoi faire avec nos églises? Pourquoi faut-il suivre la ligne de tradition de toutes les Musées du Monde? Et si c'était l'an 2017;quel invitation ferons-nous à qui pour établir quel kiosque/pavillion dans cet église? Faut-il attendre à l'an 2017 pour penser comme l'èee de llEXPO?
On vient juste de rdflechir dcs années de 1967 et 1'EXPO '67. Je remercie toute les poulations qui ont contribués à faire revivre
des bonnes mémoires. Quoi de mal de parler de ces bonnes souvenirs?
La pratique va nous aider à faire mieux pour l a prochaine fois et pour
toutes les autres bons souvenirs.
ECOUTEZ-MOI BIEN Nous sommes rendu au point des futurs estimations de la population en l'an 2050. On parle des B8S~BNSABILIT@S
DES CLIMATOLOGIES pour l'an 2050. Il y a des investissements planifié pour l'an 2050. La ville de Chicago vient juste de gagner la ville candidature des Etats-Unis pour les jeux Olympiques d'été de l'an 2016.Ceci,un an avant 2017 et ils travaillent déjà dans l'ambience de la compétition pour trouver leur place dans le calendrier mondiale de 2016. Avez-vous un plan pour le YUSEE ERSKINE AMERICAN D E L'ART CANADIEN? Qui estimez-vous saura votre clientèle entre 2007-2017 et après? Harold Geltman vous a présenté un plan pour 50 ans:2007-2057.
Les enfants au naissance en 2007 seront 10 ans en 2017 et 50 ans en 2057. Quel âge aurez-vous? Avez-vous des plans pour votre vie dans 1 0 ans et 50 ans? On a des estimations de 9,000,000,000 de peuple sur la NAVETTE PLANETE TERRE en 2050.Est-ce que le peuple de Montréal a compri comment
la ville a changé depuis 1 0 ans et 50 ans à cause du changement dans
la quantité et qualité de la population mondiale?
Montréal a besoin de trouver des débouches alternatifs. S i les Québecois voient le eiiGîdIN CANAaIRN comme un cul desac et un sens unique et s i les Canadiens voient le CHEMIN QUEBECOIb comme unique,pourriez-vous me dire comment nous un cul de sac et un sens allons faire du chemin ensemble avec ces attitudes confrontationnels? Pensez-vous que j e pose mal le problème? Vous les journalistes,les observatcurs.les commanditateurs au radio
et la télévision,vous avez toutes des responsabilités dans cet domaine.
Quel sorte de chemin pour vos voyages 2007-2017?
On se crée des milliers de nicbde p o d e s dans nos chemins et nos idées et nos attitudes en crEants des milliers de nids de poudes
dans les chemins,idées et attitudes des autres. NOS VOIRIES CULTURELLES ET INTELLECTUELLS NOUS COUTENT DES FORTUNES. L E 8 VOIRIES CULTURELLES ET INTELLECTUELLES SANS L'EXPO 2017 PEUT S E TRADUIRE EN CATASTROPHE MONDIALE. On n'échappera pas à cet désastre. Des bonnes espoires voyagent avec des bon travaux. AU TRAVAIL 2017. COMPUTER INSTRUCTIONS 1) Verify al1 g r a m m a t i c a l , t y p i n g , d i g i t a l errors for further discussions.
2) This 4 page brief i s self-protected £rom t h e f t , l o s s , f o r g e r y , f r a m e s ,
identity thefty shot downism" , blackmail, shredding,plagiarism,
accusations of mind control and any similar acts designed to thwart the delivery,workings and/or readings of such brief.
3) Anticipate & intercept the anti-Harold clique trying to b o o n d o g e
parallel rumors of obfuscations and irrelevancies.
the brief with 4) Anticipate & intercept the anti-American clique intervening tosabotage
the ideas of the brief with their anti-Iraqi-anti-war interferences.
5) Harold Geltman i s responsible for al1 errors of fact resulting £rom
not having read the documents on file. 6) Anything else that should be brought to my attention on 7) WHO WILL NOT READ THIS BRIEF UNLESS YOU DELIVER IT