Made in Montreal

My friend, Audrey Keyes (Veeto), used to say that wherever her mother lived in Montreal she could see the Oratory. She could walk out of her...

It is not unusual to have snow in April, as we did this year on April 21. It is even possible to have snow in May which is why garden planti...

We used to go to the Just for Laughs Comedy Festival on rue St-Denis (https://www.hahaha.com/en). During the day there were activities, a tw...

I'm not saying that this building (it's the Village Shopping Plaza located on the corner of Robert Burns and Cote St-Luc Road), and ...

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 r...

It's quiet here on the Loyola Campus; classrooms are empty, dorms closed, library closed, no students on campus for over a year.    Faci...

Walking along Westminster Avenue below Sherbrooke Street West, I found a Leonard Cohen decorated mailbox. Must mail all of my letters here. ...

My grandfather, John R. Parker, was captain at Station/Caserne 46 on Somerled Avenue back in the 1940s; it was country back then, apple orch...

On this first day of spring, 2021: enjoying re-reading Irving Layton's Waiting for the Messiah . Layton writes, The importance of Montre...

19 March 2021.  

Apartment building entrances on Sherbrooke Street West between Montclair and Coronation;  18 March 2021..