Montreal on 28 January 2013

 

Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral 
Marie, reine de la monde

Windsor Station, once the head office
of the Canadian Pacific Railroad

St. George's Anglican church, across the street
from Windsor Station

St. George's Anglican Church

A statue of Sir John A. Macdonald, as is
typical today the statue was attacked,
splattered with paint, decapitated several times,
toppled from where it stood, and finally removed

Sir John A. Macdonald

Windsor Station, mid-2000s, Montreal

Windsor Station on a spring day, mid-2000s.

From ERM's office at Windsor Station, Montreal

Here is my mother's note, written on October 3, 1979, regarding the following photograph (first, below). I remember that day, she gave me the photograph and I kept the note with it and dated it at the time.

Taken in the late 1930s (or early 1940s), this photograph (taken from my father's office window at Windsor Station, then the C.P.R.'s head office in Montreal), you can see St. James' Cathdedral (renamed Mary Queen of the World Cathedral around 1950, for the year of Mary) beside Dominion Square in downtown M0ntreal.



This is the parking lot behind Windsor Station, on St. Antoine Street (where the Bell Centre is now located).