Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Great Aunt Essie's bedroom
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Hallway to kitchen
Friday, October 9, 2009
Grandma's bedroom
Cupboard in the bedroom; the woodwork (now painted over) is quite nice, elegant |
That open door in the adjoining room is the entrance from the stairs |
Looking from the bedroom to the dining room |
Window in my grandmother`s bedroom |
These are all photographs of my grandmother's bedroom. Above, looking at the bedroom from the dining room. The others are of the cupboard in the room and the room in general.
There was an open house that I visited and took photographs of my grandmother`s last home, photos and visit took place in spring 2009. She lived here, on Girouard Avenue, from around 1924-25 to her passing in April 1965, and then her two sisters stayed on in the flat until 1968-69. I don`t think I had ever been in her bedroom, the door was open during the day and the foot of her bed was visible at the entrance to the room. During the day she often sat just to the right of the bedroom door, in the dining room, and the radio was playing. It was kind of an open-concept room, at the top of the stairs you entered to a foyer and the foyer opened to the dining room, other rooms were off this part of the flat. The flat was built in the early 1900s. (updated 15 September 2023)
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Auntie Mable's Room
This was my Auntie Mable's bedroom, where my parents slept when we lived here from 1952 to 1954. The room is in the front of the flat, facing onto Girouard Avenue. She seemed to have "modern" furniture, compared to the rest of the flat, but maybe it wasn't all that "modern"... I remember sitting in this room on my father's lap, spelling "c.a.t." and "d.o.g." and looking at cartoons cut from the Saturday Evening Post.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Living room & dining room
Sunday, October 4, 2009
In dining room & view
Here's the view from the window in the first photograph. It's a courtyard between the two buildings where there used to be a tree, and then just a bit farther away from the building you have the lane between Girouard and the street to the west. Many of the properties on Girouard have been renovated... alas, 2226 Girouard is not one of them; it's present state gives some idea of what it was like back in the fifties, without furniture.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Girouard Avenue: The Living Room
You realize that this used to be a really nice flat. The word "flat" is British, so it is ironic in largely French-speaking Quebec that we use this word. I don't believe that these units are referred to as "flats" elsewhere in North America. A flat is a self-contained unit with its own front door to the street, unlike an apartment that has a front door leading to a hallway of other people's front doors, and a lobby and door to the street. My grandmother's flat was surprisingly large, around 1000 square feet, and has a very nicely laid out floor plan. Living room in the front, large eat-in kitchen in the rear, large dining room in the middle, and a foyer and door to where stairs lead to her second floor flat. It is a very liveable living space.
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