The tour of 2226 Girouard Avenue begins...

Standing on the landing at the front door at 2226 Girouard, here's a view of the street and then looking south to present-day Blvd de Maisonneuve (formerly Western Avenue) that runs perpendicular to Girouard. The western end of de Maisonneuve is at the Loyola Campus of Concordia University (after it passes a recreational field, there's a bend in the street and it becomes West Broadway); it continues east all the way to the the east end of the city. Running parallel to de Maisonneuve are railroad tracks. In fact, this used to be quite a country area, with Western still a dirt road and long walks back in the '30s and '40s along the tracks. My maternal grandparents lived at 2217 Hampton, the same block (below Sherbrooke Street West) as 2226 Girouard, but several streets west of here. Girouard Avenue was widened in the 1930s or 40s and front lawns were eliminated, and street cars used to run along the street. How times have changed . . .