Les,
Did you post this photo and what date as I seem to think you did. I am looking for its origins .
Guy
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 Guy ! You know that I was professor of chemistry at University of Quebec at Chicoutimi (UQAC). G챕rard Arguin was our rector during many years. I didn’t know he was from Verdun. I’m also interested in finding the origin of that message and who posted it in the first place. JM
Hello Guy,.because it's Academie Richard,.there is a good chance I may have posted it,.knowing that JMH went to that school,.but I cannot remember exactly if I did post it ,.as I've posted hundreds of pics ,..over the years,.and unfortunately I don't remember which site I may have found it. I do ususally suggest ,that people 'save' the pics posted ,and many have done so,.I will try to look through some of my folders & files and see if I can locate that shot again,..... Many things are found ,just by chance,as I usually search for Montreal or Verdun type of stuff,.and you can literally come across thousands of leads,.and occasionlly stumble on some great old photo's that may spark a memory for some & not for others,...I'll keep looking .... HF&RV
Is that Maggie in the stroller? Of Les on the tricycle?
Steve, where did you come up with that photo? You posted it on another thread in colour. The colour seemed unreal. Judging by the clothes on those women, the boards on "the boardwalk" and the stroller it is way before my time. I would guess 30's or 40's. Great picture!
Maggie the hussie hanging on the rail has no bra on and is showing off her knees.Has to be later than the 40s.Type Verdun Boardwalk in google you'll see some good stuff. Steve
Maggie here is the address for that picture and the one in colour: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ef7987b2d677231be466a7d9e12d62c3&topic=284673.msg1681980 Steve
Maggie I was wrong and you were a little closer in about 1925ish, I would guess. Steve
The Boardwalk was a 'make work project' during the depression,.1925 would be too early,.as I beleive the boradwalk was built on top of the manmade dyke to control flood waters of the river,....... Many years a go we posted a story about an over zealous formean who was trying to push the men too hard to work,.( as the men were working to offset & earn their Rekeif chq's).so the foreman was warned once ,.with a group of the men puttting him inside a big toolbox of sorts,.and then 'rolled him down the embankment towards the waters edge...............They never had a ny problems with him again,.as after they let him out,.he apparently was as nice as pie....to the workers. I will try to find the site where I saw that story originally,... I see this phot ( a good one I might ad) was part of a 'colouring project,.to colourise the photo.at least according to that web site,.. hf&rv
Les In my computer I can't find it at the moment the dike starting around the Grand T. Club went up between Will'rd Ave. and where 1st. Ave. is now. That would be early 30's. I could be off on the dates. In that Pic. the house to the left seems to be further out along Lasalle. Ron.
Hi Ron I think your right on that time line,...30ish..... I have soem info on it too,.but where do I start looking,....Yikes hahahaha I'm sure we'll come across ,.I know we have posted a lot of this infor before,.but same deal,.where do I start looking,.................I notice a lot of old websites have changed over the years ,so finding the same stuff may prove difficult (but who knows ,might find some new stuff too) hf&rv
Les Imagine the cost of that lumber today and the arm of the men who hammered those spikes into it. Ron.
Les I found that at http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=Verdun+Aqueduct&meta= the fifth one down and they made the mistake of calling it a walkway next to the Verdun Aqueduct 1925ish.I just posted what was there. Steve
Please colour boardwalk Family History Local History Hi dollylee, it was taken in Verdun, on the island of Montreal, in about 1925ish, I would guess. It's the walkway alongside the Verdun Aqueduct, ...
www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=ef7987b2d677231be466a7d9e12d62c3&topic=284673.msg1681980 - 92k - Steve
Hi Ron ,it looks to be about 35 planks (roughly) across ,..I would like to know ,just how much lumber was actually used,...that's one expensive boardwalk ( by todays standards) Part of the reason it was made of wood ( so I 've heard over the years) was because the Mayor around that era,.his family or he ,owned a Lumber Yard,.abd when the Gov't of the day,.set out with these make work projects,.he ( or his family,were oddly enough) quite ready to supply wood,........hahahahaha If they owned a cement plant,.guess what ,.it would have been called the Cement Walk..............hahahahah Now ,that would be a rareity wouldn't it,.a politician Lining His Pockets...................hahahahaha HF&RV
Les. Nothing ever changes does it?
I have been in touch with the owner of the "boardwalk" photo. She can name some of the people in it and will get back to me soon.
From the photo's owner in the U.K.: " I believe the woman on the left is a Williams nee Paterson or Moore."
Hello MaggiMck,...... I wonder if the Moore name is ,from the Elevator Moore's ,....... there were several of them,& one of them Buddy Moore,.became a VP of LCCHS ( Lasalle Catholic etc etc ).....a good guy,......one of the Moore's met an early demise ,by falling ( as I understand it) down an elevator shaft) KungFu, correct me on that if I'm wrong,.......I don't Remember the name of the Moore that fell,.but I know we have had a few members who did know him personally,.... However that's edging off topic a bit ,.as we don't know ,if it's the same family as portrayed in that Boardwalk Photo...... HF&RV
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