Made in Montreal

Coincidentally, there was a second fire (this time on Elmhurst Avenue) only two streets over but in the same city block a week after the fir...

Here is the apartment building, on Westmore Avenue, where there was a fire on 05 September. These photographs were taken on 13 September 202...

05 September 2025 After last night’s rain and heavy winds—broken tree boughs, many branches littering the streets, loss of electricity—after...

  At 2217 Hampton Avenue, around 1953 Not long ago I wrote about my grandfather, who was a fireman, and about a steel fire department shovel...

                                     A month ago, when a shovel that had belonged to my grandfather broke, I was shoveling snow on our front...

My grandfather, John R. Parker, and his bride, Bertha Chew; photo taken in Blackburn, Lancashire. I don't like to admit that I never lik...

My grandfather, John R. Parker, was captain at Station/Caserne 46 on Somerled Avenue back in the 1940s; it was country back then, apple orch...

Both my grandfather, John Parker, and his brother, Thomas Parker, were firemen in Montreal; they were born in Blackburn, Lancashire, England...