Alexis Nihon Plaza, 20 October 2011

This reminds me, when my mother worked at the Sir George Williams University library 
(Concordia University as of 1974), she used to stop on her way home and have something to eat
at this snack bar; strange irrelevant memories that return to one 

Lots of people still miss Zellers, a discount shopping store; they always had
quality items; that era is gone now although The Bay, that now owns Zellers,
has made part of some of their stores "Zellers"

 

Driving home from work on 28 September 2011

 

Philip's Square seen from The Bay, 26 February 2011

Photographs of Philip's Square taken from The Bay on Ste. Catherine Street on 26 February 2011.

Somewhere on Mount Royal

It was the end of April 2011; I was walking on Mount Royal, the mountain at the center of Montreal and a very popular park. The spirit of trees is not only in the tree, it's in the shadow of the trees, it's in the roots and branches and the seasonal change of leaves, from green to fall's variety of colours to these bare branches and the carpet of leaves on the ground. 

Phillip's Square from The Bay

All but one of the following photographs were taken in 2011 when we used to go to The Bay and my wife would buy clothes at The Bay's Jacques Vert department, I think it was on the second or third floor. In Vancouver The Bay has a terrific cafeteria, full course meals, while the cafeteria at the downtown Montreal Bay store is good but not great.  Next to the cafeteria is a small, free, museum on the history of The Bay and it's worth visiting. Some of these photos were taken from the dress department just above the Ste. Catherine Street entrance to The Bay; that's Phillip's Square directly across the street, this is the entrance where the organ grinder played back in the 1950s.

Spring 2011

June 2011

Where the Burger King is located was the location of the Art Association of Montreal; June 2011

Birks is on the right, now it has a hotel built on top of the original store

The Canada Cement Company building behind the statue of King Edward VII

Taken from Ste. Catherine Street, this is the entrance to The Bay, in 2013