Good morning !
I’m sure some persons will remember this spot in Verdun
JM
THANKS for stopping by, I do my best to acknowledge when someone leaves a comment,you do not have to be a member here & everyone is welcome. Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
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Hi. JM As a child I always thought that was a neat looking garage. Great cars shown there.
Nice old photograph JMH,.where did you find this one,? Remember quite a few garages had some character in their style/ architechture,.........they look more a live than the plain jane generic stuff around these days: Look at the old pumps at this one,...............Very Good shot ,.JMH hf&rv
JM, What corner is this. and is it a WW2 photo. Guy
Hi Les, Thanks for the comments. You once lived close to that place ... BTW, it’s a Champlain Service station JM
Salut Guy ! Re: Armistice Day Parade - Black Watch, Verdun (1937) I'm sure you can find the street and the corner JM
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Sorry I'll try to clean that up a bit: News. Armistice Day Parade - Black Watch, Verdun / Conrad Poirier . - 7 novembre 1937
Des restrictions s'appliquent sur une ou des unit챕s de rangement. Consulter le panorama 'Contenants' pour lire le libell챕 des restrictions. Nous voyons le r챕giment des 짬Black Watch쨩 d챕filant dans une rue de Verdun en kilts avec leurs cornemuses, lors de la journ챕e de l'Armistice. Nous apercevons un garage Champlain, des passants et des automobiles.
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VERDUN (VILLE : QUEBEC) click on the 'see the image' and the whole site is aactually a good one, Good find JMH,....again I had forgotten about this site,.it does have a lot of interesting stuff,......... it's hard to Remember all the resources,available to us,.I almost never bookmark these sites,.as I usually am alerted to them again,while looking for other stuff,.....always good to be reminded ,Thanks for the Memory Prompt.................................. http://pistard.banq.qc.ca/unite_chercheurs/description_fonds?p_anqsid=20071021105007497&p_classe=P&p_fonds=48&p_centre=06M&p_numunide=804168 Here's the homepage link: http://www.banq.qc.ca/portal/dt/accueil.jsp?bnq_resolution=mode_800 hf&rv
I do Remember a Champlain Station at the corner of Rielle & Verdun Avenue,....but I don't Remember those castle style turrets,.on this building,.but several garages had similar style,.....Calex/Supertest,Champlain /Fina/ & I think a few White Rose stations had similar styles,.( I guess it was a style of the times),..... I do see that Champlain Sign on this building,.........but if that's the one then I would think the picture is taken from almost in front of the old Guardian newspaper in the 4300 block of Verdun Avenue. looking towards Rielle ,and the BlackWatch Band marching on Verdun Ave hf&rv
Les, you’re right. Champlain Service Station at 4410 Verdun Ave., Verdun (SW corner of Rielle) JM
Thanks JMH,.your msg's always make us have to think... hf&rv
JMH ,the picture you posted would have been taken from this corner(roughly) I took this photo sometime in the early 80's ,on a visit back to Verdun,.......... my friends & I would stand inside that apartment building (when we were kids) too warm up in the winter,.and further down the street,was the Verdun Guardian (later Messenger) & at one time Mackasey's Trophy store . .and directly across the street from that apartment building & on the opposite corner from the Champlain Gas Station,.was an empty lot with a couple of large 'Billboards' and Danny B & KenCm3 ,.& a few of our other friends would climb up to the top,& watch the people on Verdun Ave......maybe sneek a cigarette................hahahahaha hf&rv
Bonjours JM, Another question, at what corner is the garage, north east, north west, south east or south west. The river is east, Montreal is north, west is the aqueduc and south is LaSalle. I presume that the military parade is marching on Verdun avenue. If they are marching towards LaSalle, then the garage is on the northwest. If it is marching towards Montreal. then the garage is on the south east. Confusing ? Guy
SW ...........corner of Rielle & Wellington,.........assuming that Verdun runs E-W, and Rielle N-S , regardless of what a compass might say...... hahahahah Have Fun & Remember Verdun
Les, Then, according to your logic, the garage was on the south (river) and west (LaSalle) side. According to a compass on a map, the garage was on the south (LaSalle) east (river) side. The problem is that when we look at a map of Verdun, it is always shown lengthwise with the aqueduc on top and the river on the south, but if you look at the compass, the needle is in the direction of Montreal, wich is north. The photographer would have been standing at the northwest corner when he took the picture. The enclosed map explains it all. (I hope) Do you follow me? Guy
Salut Guy ! The convention for Montreal is not related to the geographic (magnetic) North but to St. Lawrence Blvd which divide the city East and West. JM
South (River) West (Lasalle)
Exactly JMH thank you,.............it's long been known that Montreal doesn't refelct the proper directions,......the River obviously has to run West to East, consequently making the (what we call the South Shore) in the South..........hahahahah Oh well we get the idea,......................... hf&rv
Montreal is an island in the middle of the St. Lawrence river, le fleuve St. Laurent, the outlet of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal is 30 miles (48 km) long and 10 miles (15 km) wide. To its north is the slightly smaller sister island of Laval. The island is on close to a 45째 angle, but most inhabitants treat long streets like Sherbrooke and Ste. Catherine as running east-west; they may also be unaware that these streets curve with the crescent shape of the island. When a Montrealer refers to east-west, they mean parallel to the river. Keep in mind that there is an east side and a west side to Montreal; address numbers increase as you move away from the "main" (rue St. Laurent). Nord=North, Est=East, Sud=South, Ouest=West, so 1000 Ste. Catherine O. is west of St. Laurent, and not near 1000 Ste. Catherine E. Montreal History and Geography http://hcibib.org/perlman/guide.html A Native's Guide to Montr챕al, Qu챕bec, Canada Last updated: 2007-11-05 Accesses since 2006-01-10: 18,205 Just one of those weird quirks : but I have always wondered why the sun would rise in the South ( according to Montreal & set ,somewhere in the LAurentians ) ....................hahahahahaha hf&rv
I am a bit confused on this one.There used to be a Calex gas station with that castle style on the corner of Willibrod and Verdun that was there probably until the late 70's. But it didnt stretch to Rielle.... But that would mean Saint Willibrod school is to the left in the photo....
Ken M
hi. kencm3 You can see the garage on the corner of St. Will. in the background they are marching towards Mtl. Ron.
Hi Ken that gas station you see is right across the street from the old StWillibrord's Boys school,...... being a Champlain Station,it was certainly on the River/Lasalle side of Verdun & Rielle ,.the band I agree is marching towards Montreal, but I don't see the Calex station in the picture,althopugh it would have been on the same block as the Champlain Station,.but at the other end of course on Willibrod & Verdun,........you can also make out a Coca-Coal sign on the beick wall in the lane behind the Champlain Station,.and if you Remember there was a little Grocery Store there,........ Calex Stn V School Yard E R D U N Champlain Station >>>> >>>>> StWillibrord's School (Boys ------------------------------- A ----------------------------------- Rielle Av V ------------------------------- E -------------------------------- Billboards Pharmacy / Apartments Hope that helps,......... hf&rv
Hey Les you can't see much of the Calex station but you can see the 3 pumps. And we did sneek a smoke or two sitting up in the billboard. Danny
Yes DannyB your right I can see the 3 pumps there now,.My bbrother moticed them right away,.........Usually I spot stuff like that,.but missed that one on the first pass.................Yikes , I'm going blind/old / forgetfull/& stupid I guess.............hahahahahahah hf&rv Do you Remember the little store beside the lane,that ran off Verdun Av towards Wellington,....on the right hand side of the lane ,right at the lane,.was 'Paul's ( at least that what we called it)..& he would sell us cigarettes 2 for a nickel,....................... Yikes !! hahahahahah
Hi Les, I remember buying smokes there. Victor Moore lived a few doors toward Wellington and we would go in and buy loose smokes for a nickle. We were in a very low grade in school and they would still sell them to us. Today we would be calling the cops if somebody sold our kids smokes at 7-8-9 yrs old. In our school days everything was available at arms length if you had the bucks and we always seemed to find the bucks with a little help from our friends. There was a lot of sharing going on. And imagine we all had a tab at our local hangout like Pop's and he would keep a close watch on it. If you were lucky on the pinball you could pay it off with credits. Danny
Les The shot of the medical bldg on Rielle and Verdun. I actually lived in there for awhile. They have apts on the top floor..not the best view. get to see Quinn Lane and some sheds..still not bad place..always had that drugstore smell when you walked in. Lad
Good Recall: the lad: .the drug store smell .....I distictly Remember exactly what you mean,.even after 45 years.........as kids we would hang around in the foyer to warm up,......I have some sort of memory of being asked by someone in the drug store,to deliver one of those little white bags to a house nearby,...I guess it was someone's prescription,.......... ? QuinnLane one of the few lanes that actually had a couple of houses in it ,with real street address's .........at least on the building,.... another school friend lived down that lane opposite the Lumber Yard which was on Gordon,..Paul Figueroa(sp?) he also had a brother Gary,.and a siter Ann(???)...............all these thoughts just popping into my mind from those days as a kid........There used to be a Taxi stand right there on Rielle beside that apartment building.........That building still looks sort of newish for Verdun,..........and it's probably been around there for more than half a century.............YIKES !!!! hahahahaha HF&RV
the lad: I meant the lane that ran perpendicular to QuinnLane ( as where the Lumber yard was,(Gordon Av) & the old warehouse bakery yard ( Rielle) anyway you get the idea............. hf&rv
Les Know the lane and lumber yard you talk about..taxi stand I think is gone...not sure. Did Gary F play football for Black and Gold? As for the bldg could be that old at least the windows acted like it in the winter. Church on corner of Gordon and Verdun has been levelled and is now condos. There was a business in Quinn Lane do you remember what it was? Lad
the lad: Gary may have played but I'm not certain of that. as for the business in the lane,.there was an auto body shop,.that I used to play on the roof of,...............I think it had a green sign on it,.but this would have been early 60's,.I moved from there to Wellington Street,.and then to Lasalle..then Vancouver Island........................................... hf&rv
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Hi Les and Lad ! Quinn Lane in Verdun (1964-65): Three addresses: 4340, 4342,4350 L & M Auto Repair Regd at 4350 http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/lovell/src/1964-1965/8.Annuaire_montr%E9alais_des_rues/Q/110780_1964-1965_2148.pdf JM
Thanks JMH,...I had forgotten about that conversation,........I played on the roof of the suto repair shop,( although I think it was an autobody shop,.but it may have been mechanical repair ,)............ I think i have a picture around somewhere of the back of the house on Verdun Av,.from Quinn Ln. I will try to find it............ Incidentally I sent an article to Fresco ( email) mentioning some recent purchases for the City of Victoria here,.they are adding 16 new double decker bus's to the fleet,.....I rode one of these several months ago to take that picture for you of an intersection here in Victoria that you had asked if I knew where it was,........ I think I asked him to forward it to you( but I'm not sure).......I know you & he have an interest in Bus's & Trams/Streetcars,.etc etc ... Thanks for the information,.on Quinn Ln hf&rv
Les,
Thanks so much for the article. Double decker busses are fun but I think it would be even more fun if Victoria brought back streetcars to the city. Nevertheless I think this is a great move purchasing the double decker busses.
I listened to Art Bell last night. A repeat from 2001. An oldie but goody. Hope all is well out in God's Country-Fresco
hi.. zoom in on those pumps.. Gas was 6 cents a liter!! Beer was 7
I took the following photo of the corner of Rielle and Verdun yesterday. Quite a change compared to JM's 1937 photo. Guy
Yea, it sure is. The depanneur, or beer store as we might have said once upon a time, just down Rielle on the other side of the lane was run by Marc Vaillaincourt for about 25 years until about 10 years ago. He was probably the last guy, perhaps even in all of Montreal, to have started on the beer bike and ended up buying the buisness and eventually the whole triplex. Service was notoriously slow, but on holidays or election days you could get a brown bag from him - just took a few hours to get there! He passed away in the mid to late 90's - not even 60 I think, and like with so many other types of buisneses the family really had no interest in keeping it going.
KenCM3 Remember Vaillaincourt's as well.Can recall going there to pick up order and seeing him pull out black note book he kept so you get it and pay later.He knew everyone and where you lived...Never said no as far as I know..My mom would call up and just give her name and he knew the order almost..you are right it took a while to get there. Hell I was visiting her one day later on and the door to the apt. swung open and the order was just place inside the door. I forgot about him and I said to her what was that..she just said Vaillaincourt's. Said it all.. Piece of history...and the store with the wooden floors would creak when you walked in... Thanks Lad
Hi Guy ! Thanks for the photo. ref: http://groups.msn.com/VerdunConnections/thebadside.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=51095&all_topics=1 The caption of the photo reads: COIN RIELLE ET VERDUN, CÔTÉ SUD EST should it be COIN RIELLE ET VERDUN, CÔTÉ SUD OUEST ... ? JM
JM I used the magnetic direction rather than the one you suggested. The actual corner is the river side (south) and Lasalle (west) as you mentioned. Guy
Was this ever a Joy gas station ??. they use to sell a gasoline that was full of crud and jamed up your carberator in no time a all, but of course they sold same for a discount
Hi touchy826 ! If my memory is right, the Joy station (then Calex) was on Verdun av., between Rielle & Willibrord (on the South side). JM
The Gas Station at Rielle & Verdun was most definetly a "Champlain" station..with a rather bigger than life photo of Champlain with a weird old hat & long curly hair cascading out the back of the hat....... and Regardless of Magnetic Compass......the station was on the South/West corner of the Verdun & Rielle............. perhaps a point of view best left to the future generations to follow us.........................hahahahhahahaha Does it really matter ??? HF&RV Even old pioneers would not have disputed the direction of their main focal point 'the river'............................it runs east to west .....regardless of it's meanderings along the way,................. Should we 'contest' the powers of the great Divide too.........they don't exactly follow 'direct' lines either..............hahahahhahaha but I'm still almost vertsin that the St Lawerance does flow East...............................any questions? hahahahha Have Fun & Rememebver Veerdun Lol
Hi touchy826 ! More precision: If my memory is right, the Joy station (then Calex) was on Verdun av., between Rielle & Willibrord (on the South side), slightly West of the Champlain Stn which was located on the South-West corner of Verdun av. and Rielle. JM
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