Of course, Vancouver is not Montreal, but on Davie street there used to be a restaurant owned by a 'Montrealer'.
It was a good place for hot chicken: two slices of white french bread, chicken in the middle, peas on top, and gravy.
The best poutine in BC is very hard to find; it usually is from moving resto trucks that you see on highways and where the driver/owner/chef ordered his cheese (curds) from Quebec. ...Very rare. Some small towns too sometimes approach but do not equal the true spiritual ingredients.
* Less than three weeks before summer: Snowmobile machines are resting in their garages, for most people, except the ones living higher up in altitude (snowy mountains of the wild America).