Made in Montreal

My maternal grandfather, John Richards Parker, came to Montreal with his wife around 1912. Here is a photograph of him, at the Central Fire...

This image of a stag, a totem animal, is located at Mount Royal Cemetery.

Yes, we now know what it means to run around like "a chicken with its head cut off" with this collection of signs directing us to ...

My photo of Restaurant Bertrand I visited Restaurant Emile Bertrand once with my father when I was a child (around 1955). It wasn't unt...

Taken one fall day at the Chateau look-out on Mount Royal.

Bonsai at the Montreal Botanical Gardens.

Carp at the Japanese exhibit, the Montreal Botanical Gardens.

Sonja Skarstedt Sonja Skarstedt 1986 Sonja Skarstedt, after a long battle with cancer, died on Friday, July 31, 2009. Sonja was a dear frien...

In Richmond, BC (above), or was that Steveston? CZ and I out one day with Hilde and Denis... (my son's name is Jake, so restaurants wi...

A photograph (above) of Le Grand Seminaire from Sherbrooke Street West and then some photographs (below) taken on the grounds.  Beginni...

These are photographs (above) of the twin towers at the Grand Seminaire, which is located on Sherbrooke Street West near Atwater S...

My grandfather, John Parker, worked here as a fireman after he emigrated to Canada around 1914 from Blackburn, Lancashire, England. My mothe...