Originally Posted by
o2bmmw
Thank you for your detailed explanation! I greatly appreciate it! I am not sure I follow your explanation of the picture though. On your picture, if I want to go to the "Centre Ville" would I be turning left?
Yes. My apologies though — the picture I attached to post #2 doesn't relate to my poor description of the unintuitive-to-Americans directional signs. I've found a picture that really should help:

In the pictured signs, the ones on the left ("Toutes Directions" and the two signs below it) aren't actually pointing left. They're pointing straight ahead. This can be confusing at first but you'll soon get used to it.