Christmas Morning in Harlem, NYC, 2008

Christmas Morning on Morningside Drive, 2008

Stairs at the Art Gallery of Ontario, summer 2009 (2)

Stairs at the Art Gallery of Ontario, summer 2009 (1)

St. James Anglican Church, Quebec

St. James Anglican Church, built in the early 1800s, is located in St. Jean sur Richelieu, Quebec (near Lacolle, which is a border crossing from Quebec's Eastern Townships to New York State). When the church was constructed there was a large English-speaking population in the Eastern Townships (including members of my paternal grandmother's family who attended the church over 125 years ago), but for various reasons the English-speaking population has dwindled over the last fifty or sixty years. For more information, visit: http://www.morrisseyfamilyhistory.com/.

St. Cunegonde Church in fall, rue Notre Dame, Montreal

Notre Dame de Bonsecours in Old Montreal

My maternal grandmother

Here is a photograph of my maternal grandmother, taken (I believe) at Westmount Park, around 1922. Her maiden name was Chew, and she was married to my grandfather, John R. Parker. My mother is on our right and my Uncle John, her only living sibling, on the left. An older child, Willie, died before my mother was born; a doctor was called when he was ill but by the time the doctor arrived, intoxicated, the child had died.

St Anthony of Padua Church

Located on St. Antoine Street in Montreal, near where our family used to live, the old St. Anthony Church was demolished for the building of the Ville Marie Expressway. The new St. Anthony's is a much more humble building.

From the old St. Anthony's Church, seen through the window on the far right of the church doors.

This is the Ville Marie Expressway directly across the street from St. Anthony's Church, where the old church was located.

Photo from 1963 before the Ville Marie Expressway was built

Turret Cigarettes

Here is the same Turret Cigarette advertisement as in the previous post, except that now debris has been cleared away from in front of it. This advertisement was protected, in pristine condition, because it was between two adjacent walls for many years. Since this photograph was taken someone has painted graffiti over it.