Made in Montreal

  The Fugs first album, 1965 Monday, nothing Tuesday, nothing Wednesday and Thursday nothing Friday, for a change a little more nothing Satu...

  Lord when I look at lovely things which pass, Under old trees the shadow of young leaves Dancing to please the wind along the grass, Or th...

  The thing is to accept (and even like) the very thing about life that upsets one the most because we are moving  irreconcilably  to death....

  At Mount Royal Cemetery, 2016 Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so; For those whom t...

  Irving Layton and Stephen Morrissey, 1997  At the end of the garden walk the wind and its satellite wait for me; their meaning I will not ...

  Photographs of Alexis Nihon Plaza, taken in April 2010, downtown Montreal.

Summery weather has arrived, early this year, it's been +20 - +25 C since last Friday, and I've been outside raking the grass of las...

Looking at these old photographs of the Alexis Nihon Plaza I am flooded with memories, all of them happy. The literally hundreds of times I ...

From the library of Canada's website: Born in Ireland in 1825, Thomas D’Arcy McGee was a poet, journalist, author, Irish patriot, Canadi...

When I used to visit Cote des Neiges Cemetery (and adjoining Mount Royal Cemetery), both located in the center of Montreal on Mount Royal, I...

On this day, 7 April 1868, almost a year after Canadian Confederation, Thomas D'Arcy McGee was assassinated in Ottawa. There was an incr...