At Loyola campus, 18 August 2025

Photographs taken a year ago, on 18 August 2025, while walking on the Loyola campus of Concordia University, the chapel, classroom building, and grotto where a statue of the Virgin Mary watches over the campus.

  

A herb garden, 31 August 2025

Yesterday—it was the last day of August—I visited the city/farm garden behind the Hingston Hall residence at Concordia University (Loyola Campus). I’ve visited this garden for many year; it is thriving and the herb garden is growing better than ever. This was a good summer for gardening!

Elf dock 

Common primrose 

Milkweed 

Worm wood 

Mullein

Bee balm

Horse raddish

White sagebrush 

Chives

Leaving the herb garden 

31 August 2025

Loyola Campus, 07 March 2012

 

Loyola campus of Concordia University

 

Vanier Library 

Loyola College, Montreal

Not far from where I live is the former Loyola College (on Sherbrooke Street West near West Broadway); it is now, as of 1974, a campus of Concordia University. Concordia University was created by the amalgamation of Sir George Williams University, which was associated with the YMCA, and Loyola College, which was a Roman Catholic institution. Loyola College is one more institution built by Montreal's Irish community, as is St. Mary's Hospital. The college seems to have retained its heritage and religious foundation, as far as this is possible in today's secular world. Hingston Residence is on the campus, William Hingston being an important historical figure in Montreal. There is a free shuttle bus service for students that takes you to the downtown campus in a half hour, or less depending on traffic. Vanier Library is found here as are newer science buildings. 

Photographs taken the morning of 9 September 2023.

This is the new science hub at Concordia; visit the science hub located on the Loyola Campus. 

Hollyhocks at Loyola College

Photograph taken from the parking lot of what used to be Loyola College but is now part of Concordia University. For some reason, in recent years, these hollyhocks are cut down sometimes even before they bloom. This year they are a beautiful sight; sometimes I take seeds from these hollyhocks to grow them in my garden, but rarely with much success. Considering they are a fairly common flower, growing like weeds in this neighbourhood, I have little luck growing them.