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Post by canuck on Aug 23, 2020 15:37:55 GMT -5
I believe I may have figured out “Get permission”. When our country was formed during Confederation, permission had to be granted by the British monarchy to form an independent nation. The monarch at the time was Queen Victoria.
Since we needed her permission to form Canada, we again need her permission to dig out the Canadian casque.
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Post by canuck on Aug 23, 2020 20:03:52 GMT -5
Royal Victoria Hospital was founded in 1887 when George Stephen and Donald Smith donated the money for its construction. The mayor of Montreal at the time supported the hospital being built on the mountain parkland, despite protests from ecologists. That mayor was John Caldwell ABBOTT, who later became Canada’s 3rd Prime Minister ( and was the 1st PM from Quebec). His cousin Maude ABBOTT was a doctor who worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital and became quite famous in her own right. EDIT: 1 more thing of significance with Abbott, he was also the 1st Prime Minister born in what became Canada. Our first 2 Prime Ministers were born in Scotland and would be targets of the current U.S. President.
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Post by choice on Aug 23, 2020 21:04:30 GMT -5
Oh no I'm not doing that again! Last time I brought up ABBOTT and suggested V5 for Montreal I got a truck full of push back. V5 spells out ABBOT and missing a T so I borrowed one from last line.
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Post by canuck on Aug 24, 2020 23:00:26 GMT -5
I didn’t really want to go there Choice, it’s just where the clues led. Got to Abbott through historical connections to the site, rather than pulling the name out of the acrostic...so kind of the reverse of how most people would make the connection.
As for “Get permission”, feel what I wrote is the correct solution for that verse line. It just makes sense in the context of Canada, still going to the British monarchy to this day for permission. I’m sure most of you don’t know who the Governor General is (current one is a head case), but basically it’s a person appointed by the Prime Minister who is the British Monarchy’s representative in the Canadian government. During Royal Assent the Governor General acts on behalf of the Monarch and approves a bill passed by Parliament to make it law. In the case of the verse it points to Queen Victoria (old hospital’s namesake).
As for this area being discussed 14 years ago, don’t think that’s a bad thing, proves there is merit to this idea. Actually if you look in the space over the left shoulder in the image it looks like there are a couple vertical poles that look very similar to the one on Mount Royal in that old Q4T thread (communications tower). I think we are dancing around the solution, if we can refine some of these ideas it may lead to the casque. Don’t throw in the towel on this one just yet...
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Post by choice on Aug 25, 2020 12:53:41 GMT -5
The hospital area is a good area to poke around. Packed full of those crow steps. Also there are a few references to crows and steps. Obvious ones are the steps on his neck and shadow of the steps by the legeater. Then that leg/foot hidden in the legeater putting on a clog or a crow pecking at it! Then there are the prominent crow's feet at his eyes.
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Post by goldhunter on Aug 25, 2020 17:17:47 GMT -5
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Post by choice on Aug 25, 2020 18:34:35 GMT -5
Well it's the October image so you'd think Halloween may be involved! Unmarked children's graves may complicate things. Again, Allan means stone.
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Post by canuck on Aug 25, 2020 20:04:43 GMT -5
I really like the bird theme clue Choice! Anyone familiar with a Martlet? It’s a stylized bird without feet and just happens to be the mascot of McGill University. The old Royal Victoria Hospital is adjacent to McGill and in recent years has been purchased by the university. A Martlet would definitely go with a Legeater, one doesn’t have legs and the other enjoys dining on them!
EDIT: The head of the Legeater in Image 9 is absolutely a Martlet upside down! The ears are actually a forked tail and it has no legs...that’s a Martlet! Even that weird “U” shape from the eye back to the ears of the Legeater make sense, that’s the front of the wing.
Definitely in the right area, keep pushing forward!
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Post by goldhunter on Aug 25, 2020 20:37:22 GMT -5
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Post by choice on Aug 26, 2020 0:19:56 GMT -5
Speaking of Martlet, what's that symbol on the crows steps? Kinda like an upside down fleur de lis. Shields with X too. goo.gl/maps/qqFFvvw8Fn6RmbTP6
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Post by goldhunter on Aug 26, 2020 6:40:58 GMT -5
Wow, choice. That SO MUCH reminds me of the clock hands in image 7.
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Post by byrnietuney on Aug 26, 2020 7:07:00 GMT -5
Seems to be a possible mount point for 'through stone' metal bolts to attach to... metal brackets, or maybe directly into and through wooden beams, behind the stone work you see - in this case, to keep the stone block wall snuggly against the interior wooden beams, while those beams act as support for the upsidedown 'V' shape of the roof between those two stone block walls. goo.gl/maps/wWjMyR3ShkUPqCJSA
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Post by goldhunter on Aug 26, 2020 9:50:24 GMT -5
Speaking of Martlet, what's that symbol on the crows steps? Kinda like an upside down fleur de lis. Shields with X too. goo.gl/maps/qqFFvvw8Fn6RmbTP6choice, you need to give this to anyone who believes Montreal is for image 7. Is it possible JJP got this image mixed into the wrong painting? Nah.
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Post by choice on Aug 26, 2020 11:34:35 GMT -5
OK, I posted it on Q4T I7. What is this? Phoenix or rooster? Roosters are considered flightless, right? goo.gl/maps/CA14cGfyggdMgYpB6Tons of crow steps across the street too,
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Post by goldhunter on Aug 26, 2020 14:18:07 GMT -5
Looks "rooster" to me.
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