General notes on Image 9

• This is the image for October and the immigration reference is to the Netherlands.
• This image is thought to be linked to Verse 5 and a casque in Montreal, Canada.

Specific Observations

  Please record your notes about this image in the list below.  Use the letter/number grid to identify the point on the image that you're describing.  To keep things organized, 1) please start each observation with a letter/number combo (in bold), and 2) add new observations in the right place on the list to keep everything alphabetized.

• D5 - The jewel is an opal, the birth stone for October.
• D7 - The smooth outline of the hat changes to irregular bulges here.  The shape of the outline must be significant. 
• F7 - The strands of hair here are probably forming numbers or letters.  If letters, they might be JSA, JSH, or JSR.
• G6 - The irregular shape of the white collar on the right is a reasonable match for the St. Lawrence River where it flows through Montreal.
• H4 - The flower is a calendula, the birth flower for October.
• H7 - The square symbol above the dog contains an X indicating "10" (for the tenth month, October).  It also appears to contain runes (see below).
• I4 - The number "67" (or possibly "467") is hidden in the flower.  The "6" could also be a musical note. 1967 is the year that Montreal hosted the universal exposition.
• I7 - The gold-colored square that contains the "legeater" dog could be a reference to the Golden Square Mile, a neighborhood at the foot of Mount Royal in Montreal.  The legeater dog is the most distinctive feature of this illustration and it may be a reference to a lamp post at 1440 Rue Drummond in the middle of the Golden Square Mile.  (See below for more info.)
• J6 & K6 - The hands appear to be forming some kind of symbol, possibly a church.
• K4 & K7 - The sleeve cuffs with a checkered pattern are very similar to the sleeve cuffs in Image 1.  In both cases, the squares start very clearly and distinctly at the top and then fade away toward the bottom.

Other Notes:

• The painting has a definite resemblance the self-portraits painted by Rembrandt, including Self-Portrait with Beret and Turned-Up Collar.  Rembrandt was a Dutch artist, so the connection works with the immigration reference.
• The left half of the background is dark and the right half is light.  In addition the individual is smiling on the left side of the image and frowning on the right.  If you place a mirror along the line of the jewel and the nose, you can create either a smiling face on a dark background or a frowning face on a light background.  (The smiling, sharp-nosed fellow with the wide hat and high collar looks very much like Napoleon Bonaparte. Note: There is a restaurant in Montreal named Bonaparte, close to the St. Lawrence River.)

• The combination of a happy face (representing comedy) and a sad face (representing tragedy) is a traditional symbol for theater and acting.  This may be a reference to some nearby place where plays are performed.  Next to the Salvation Army Montreal Citadel (verse 5) there is an old theater...
• Several people have suggested that the design on the front of the shirt might actually be a map of the area on the southeast side of Mount Royal in Montreal.  (Click on map below to see a larger version.)

• Under this interpretation, the zig-zag neckline would be the "stairstep" boundary of Mount Royal Park.  The lowest point of the neckline would be the Trafalgar School (which also has the stairstep profile).  The legeater dog in the gold box would be the George Stephen House inside Montreal's Golden Square Mile.  And the flower could represent the rosette window at the College Dawson.
• The Abbot's fingers form an X more or less directly over Edifice/Academie Bourget, however, his hands take up so much space in the picture that the "church" he's creating could be the Anglican Church of St. James the Apostle (Rue St. Catherine X Rue Bishop), or the Soeurs Grises Convent (there is a mall on the NW side that has a large arch-shaped window that could be the "arc of lights" from the verse). 
• All of the clues currently point to areas on the north and east sides of Mount Royal in Montreal.  It might be very helpful to find some students at McGill University who would be interested in working on the puzzle.

Image Matches

The "legeater" design on the shirt matches the (bizarre) bases on the lampposts outside the George Stephen House in Montreal, Canada.  The house was built in 1883 for George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen.  The lamps are an Italian design and very similar lamps are still in use in Palermo, Sicily.  (See photos here, here, here, and here.)  However, no other examples of this design have yet been found in North America.     The George Stephen House is located at 1440 Drummond Street in Montreal, near the center of an area called the Golden Square Mile.  Between 1926 and 2011, the house was used for the Mount Stephen Club.  The club closed in 2011 and the house is now being converted to a hotel that is expected to open in 2015.
The shape beside the legeater dog has not yet been explained.  It appears to be formed from a series of connected squares with a few curves on one side.     If the gold-colored rectangle represents Montreal's Golden Square Mile, it's possible that this is a cross-section or floor plan for one of the historic buildings.  To identify the building, we may need to look at aerial photos from around 1980.
The pattern on the man's neckline resembles the roof of Trafalgar School for Girls in Montreal.  The Trafalgar School is located at 3495 Simpson, across Avenue du Docteur Penfield from Percy Walters Park, on the east side of Mount Royal.
The calendula appears to contain the numbers 76, 67, and/or 767. The Expo in 1967 and the Olympics in 1976 both took place in Montreal.      An alternate interpretation would be the number 757 (see image at far right).
The square with the X appears to contain two runes.  The one on the left appears to be wunjô.  The one on the right appears to be a reflected version of laguz.
Some people have suggested that the broad, low profile of the man's hat might be a representation of Mount Royal.     If the man's head represents Mount Royal, it would make sense that the face would be half sad, because half the hilltop is taken up with a cemetary.     This photo was taken from the northeast side of Mount Royal, looking to the southwest.  The obelisk in the foreground is the monument to Sir George-Étienne Cartier.  It has stood in the park since 1919 and may be connected in some way to the search.	By Montrealais at English Wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2974363
The collar of the man's robe may have an outline that represents the roads around Mount Royal.  (Note that the map at far right is turned almost upside-down, so north is at the lower right.)     If this interpretation is correct, the lowest, central park of the neckline (between 4 and 5) would correspond to the George-Étienne Cartier Monument on Av du Parc.  The stretch between 3 and 4 would be contained inside the campus of McGill University.
The right side of the white shirt collar forms a very reasonable representation of the St. Lawrence River, as it flows northeast through Montreal.
The left side of the white shirt collar forms the outline of southwestern Quebec, where the boundary drops south, turns eastwards for awhile, and then makes a final, short drop to the south beside Montreal.
The shape of the Montreal and Laval islands could be shown in the man's mouth and chin...
... or perhaps in the man's mouth and nose.  Either way, it's a strong match for the city of Montreal.
The hair contains various curves that could be numbers.
The steps and checkerboard may be a nod to the Sunlife Building that borders Dorchester Sq. in Montreal.  (Note that the outer edge makes the "stairstep," while the windows form the "checkerboard.")

Latitude / Longitude Hints

Montreal is between the latitudes of 45 and 46 degrees north.  It is between the longitudes of 73 and 74 degrees west.

Questions, questions, questions...

• Is there some significance to the way the hands are clasped with certain fingers raised?
• What is the meaning of the two runes in the square above the "legeater dog"?