Made in Montreal

At the estate sale of the late Stephanie Dudek, Vendome Avenue, 20 July 2020 The first issue of the new online periodical http://poetry-queb...

This is what's left of Hermine Street, where my great grandmother, Mary Callaghan, lived, only a block from St. Patrick's Church whe...

Here is the Black Stone. It was 150 years ago, in 1859, that the Black Stone was erected. The Black Stone, also called the Black Rock, is s...

Back in July 1978, I visited my friend R.R. Skinner at Boisville, his home in Camberley, England. We had first met a few years before, in Au...

This is Blackie, a cat I found in our barn at The Cedars when he was only a few days old. I called him Black Lightning, because he moved so...

View from Pointe Calliere Museum in Old Montreal after a Jung Society  of Montreal end of year luncheon. My review (below) of two new books ...

Not a photograph, but a copy of a page from Lovell's Montreal City Directory for 1845-1846 (the complete directory is available online f...

Here are a few, final, photographs of St. Matthew's Church taken two or three years ago. I suggest matching them with previous photograp...

World War Two had been declared, the Royal Family visited Canada and were in Montreal in May 1939, that's 70 years ago.... These photos ...

My mother (holding our cat Simey) and Graham Nichols (my stepfather), whom she married in May 1963. The playroom at 4350 Montclair Avenue. ...