Morning walk, 29 May 2025

Things seen when out walking . . .

Someone's means of transportation

In the window of an Indian restaurant on Somerled Avenue

 

  

The former home of Canadian poet, Irving Layton, on Monkland Avenue

A sculpture on someone's lawn

 

My mother's home on Montclair Avenue, where she lived from 1963 to 2007

Kensington Presbyterian Church, 21 April 2025

I visited Kensington Presbyterian Church because the polling station for the 28 April 2025 Federal election was located there; I thought this church had closed long ago but I see, in their website, that although the congregation is smaller now it is still very active; "We are a Christian community worshipping in the heart of NDG — since 1896! The community of NDG has changed a great deal since then, and so have we." The church, the place of worship, is now Knox Centre for performing arts. The church is located at 6225 Godfrey Avenue, in NDG

 

St. Augustine Catholic Church, 11 April 2011

I remember when I attended St, Augustine Catholic Church, it was for my grandmother's funeral. I can remember the approximate date, it was 26 April 1965, the day before my fifteenth birthday. But I don't remember going to the cemetery for the burial, one forgets so many things and wonders "where was I?" "what was I doing?" “ why didn't I go?" "who was I with?" There must have been other funerals that day, my grandmother's casket was one of several and I remember the priest who officiated. This was the church of my Auntie Mabel; she died in 1960. My grandmother was Protestant and never went to church, she could marry my Catholic grandfather on the condition that she raise the children as Catholics, but on Sunday mornings she said her boys needed their sleep and most of her children were nominal Catholics and married Protestants. 

It was an Irish Catholic church.

 

A walk on 09 March 2016

 

On 03 December 2010, walking in NDG

Corner Montclair Avenue and Fielding Avenue

Caserne 46, Fire Station 46, on Somerled Avenue

St. Monica's Roman Catholic Church on Terrebonne

St. Thomas Anglican Church on Somerled

 

Tony, Knife Sharpening

First you hear the bell ringing, then you see Tony's knife sharpening truck passing by your home. If you have knives, garden shears, or a lawn mower that needs to be sharpened, just wave to Tony and he'll stop his truck at your door and in a few minutes whatever you've had sharpened will be ready to go!

Demolishing Ecole Ste. Catherine de Sienne, late February 2018

Ecole Ste-Catherine-de-Sienne was demolished due to asbestos in the original construction; a new school with the same name was built on the site. Located on Somerled Avenue near Coronation Avenue.