The Guaranteed Milk Bottle in Montreal

This giant milk bottle has been on the Montreal cityscape for many years. It was put up by the old Guaranteed Milk Company, which may have had its factory or delivery department on present-day Lucien L'Allier just below present-day Rene-Levesque. The street names have been changed to reflect our changing times . . .  so Dorchester Blvd. is now Blvd. de Rene-Levesque, and so on... My great uncle Victor Parker used to work at a dairy on Lucien L'Allier, I am not too sure what he did, but he lived with his mother until she died around 1949 and then he was relocated to the Douglas Hospital by his three brothers. He died in 1969.

The hotel that can be seen on the right in the photograph below is now gone, and new bigger buildings have been erected on this location. The milk bottle is always about to be demolished until someone hears about it and calls for it to receive some kind of special status as part of Montreal's history. The milk bottle is now rusting out and is covered by graffiti . . .