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.

A house on Connaught Avenue

 Mid-June, 2023.

Where Trenholme Park meets de Maisonneuve

De Maisonneuve Blvd West, between Girouard Avenue and West Broadway Avenue, used to be called Western; up to the early-1950s it was a dirt road. It was country-like back then and people would go for walks along Western. From 1950 to 1954 we lived at 2226 Girouard with my grandmother and Auntie Mable, and my grandmother's sister, my Great Aunt Essie. That's seven people in a fairly large flat, but it's still a lot of people. My mother's parents lived at 2217 Hampton Avenue which is a short walk along Western from Girouard. Today, de Maisonneuve is a through street, you take it to avoid traffic on Sherbrooke West; only the stop signs slow people down. There is a bike path and the train tracks running beside de Maisonneuve are used by commuter trains going from downtown Montreal out to the West Island and beyond. The CPR long ago gave up passenger service to other cities on these tracks. 

    Here are some photographs, taken yesterday morning, of de Maisonneuve Blvd at the bottom of Trenholme Park. Trenholme was mayor of NDG when it was a separate municipality from Montreal, now it is part of the NDG-CDN Borough which, by the way, has a larger population than the province of Prince Edward Island but none of the advantages of being a province. k 

    BTW, the streets on either side of Trenholme Park are Park Row East and Park Row West; Sherbrooke Street West on the north and Blvd de Maisonneuve on the south.

Looking south to de Maisonneuve Blvd

Looking north to Sherbrooke Street West

Some of these maple trees must be seventy to eighty years or older

de Maisonneuve Blvd West

The modern 1960s building above is a part of the park; there used to be a skating rink below the building which is where I lost teeth playing hockey...

Honey bees at hydrangea flowers, July 2016

A favourite activity, watching honey bees foraging for nectar and pollen in flowers... here is the latest video on that.

Chanting at the Buddhist temple

Out walking in Montreal West when I made a detour back to my own neighbourhood, the borough of Notre Dame de Grace. Passing the old Rosedale United Church on Terrebonne, seeing the labyrinth outside of Dewey Hall, and that the Hall is now a Buddhist Temple. Standing outside the temple and listening to the chanting coming from inside...

Waiting for a bus

Sunset at Gilbert Layton Park