Made in Montreal

Phillips Square in 1916 Phillips Square, located across the street from The Bay department store in downtown Montreal, has always interested...

Snow clearing (the dump trucks, snowblowers, sidewalk cleaners have already passed) in progress on what looks like a nice winter day, but it...

There's nothing you can do in the garden when it's winter and -25 C (or colder), except stay in-doors, read a book, watch Morse on V...

Hi Ho, Hi Ho It's off to work we go,  A few months ago I heard our former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney say that Canada needs a larger p...

This is the view of the St. Pierre River from Toe Blake Park, looking through or over the chain link fence between the park and Meadowbrook ...

Here is the final memory of going downtown with my Auntie Mable. It is the organ grinder in front of Morgan's Department Store who I rem...

I wrote a poem about going downtown with my Auntie Mable, the poem was published in A Private Mythology (Ekstasis Editions, 2015).  Downtow...

Stephen Morrissey at Eaton's Department Store around 1960 Here I am around 1960, at Eaton`s Department Store on Ste. Catherine Street in...

People used to go shopping, to movies, or to restaurants downtown on Friday evenings; they'd go shopping downtown on Saturday afternoons...

I have been fascinated by Percy Leggett since I read his obituary in 1965 (see other posts on Leggett on this blog). He was a genuine eccent...

Here are photos of a Canada Post delivery truck advertising new postage stamps in memory of Leonard Cohen. I have never really been a fan of...

Some things stick in one's memory. One event I remember is hearing, when I was a child, my Uncle Alex (Morrissey) saying that someone wa...

  On Meadowbrook Golf Course.