A stone-faced, "tour character" cop stares down the crowd in the staging area. Like their real life counterparts, the Montreal police, these stone-face enforcers carry no guns.

Lady cop tour character "isn't having any of it" from the crowd. She has a night stick and she means business!(2003 Tour de L'lle)

Steve Klein and Trudy Hutter scan the crowd for the last member of our group, as the participants approach the finish line coming into Parc Laurier and the end-of-ride festival.

Trudy Hutter and your humble gallery owner enjoy the shade as we wait for the last of the group to cross the finish line

Notice the typical steps (to the second floor apartments) that predominate in that section of Montreal...

One of the two inflatable cans that straddled the finish line at the entrance to Parc Laurier.

Parc Laurier, south lawn...

John Chiarella in Montreal's Parc Laurier at the end of "Le Tour de L'lle", 2003

This "Tour character" with his Popeye calves, feather duster seat, and high-pitched voice complained, woefully (and in two languages), that he anticipated an extraordinarily arduous journey riding the 200 KM back to Ottawa with that particular appurtenance being substituted for his stolen bicycle seat.

...at the finish line festival in Parc Laurier

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