Start Sweeping ,cause like the sign in the picture says "A Clean City Begins on your Doorstep"........HF&RV
...ps: click on the photo ,to make it larger ( easier to read,)
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.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Why Wait for Spring
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Les,
Your right, Verdun has always been a relatively clean city, although during my photo taking escapades, I found that there is room for improvement as I previously mentioned. I have noticed that the small garden area in front of the houses could be kept cleaner. The Evangéline Hickson area is very bad and I will take photos when in that area to show what I mean. I noticed that the year 1971 is shown on the truck. I wish all those old photos had the year shown. Thanks for posting it.
Guy
Guy
I like that saying, "A Clean City Begins On Your Doorstep!"
I like mine also. "A Clean Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste!"
Winston this Gazette paper is for you & (whoever else worked in the stock exchange)
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DpQtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Yp8FAAAAIBAJ&dq=montreal%20stock%20exchange&pg=7004%2C5171840
........Once you've read this article you can scroll over the other pages in the same paper,and on the other pages are ads for the opening of the New Stock Exchange at Place Victoria........
You can also read page by page or enlarge the page your on etc etc ,.You'll figure it out, HF&RV
Great pictures.....Thanks Les. In a picture of The Montreal Exchange, which shows some board markers, and some traders sitting down. In the right hand corner is a trader by the name of Gerry Gadley. He and I worked for O'Brien & Williams. Although it is fuzzy, I am standing with my back towards him, directly behind. There is another picture that shows part of the new Exchange floor not yet completed. In the upper part of the picture, you can see pillars. In the far left pillar is where the PLQ placed the bomb the blew the exchange up. At the time I had been sitting on the Exchange floor , on a bench directly in front of the 2nd pillar. For some reason I got up, walked up the 2 steps to the booth that was directly under the visitors gallery and right next to that 2nd pillar. Within seconds, there was a huge blast. The trader I had gone to talk to said; "What was that?". I reponded by saying; "That was a bomb you a*****e!!!!" When the air had cleared, I looked down to the bench that I had been sitting on just seconds before, and it was no longer there. Can you say ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER???? I know I can!!!!
YIKES !! Winston,.that's a Barbasol Close Shave for sure......I knew that the stock market could be volatile,..but hey that's ridiculous..........
On February 13, 1969 the Front de libération du Québec set off a bomb at the Stock Exchange, injuring twenty-seven people. No one was killed.
.Here's the Montreal Gazette containing that story:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SugiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EqAFAAAAIBAJ&dq=bomb%20goes%20off%20at%20montreal%20stock%20exchange&pg=1022%2C2986671
Your Lucky ......................HF&RV
you know those were very strange times .....you could feel the tension at all times around the city
Here is a list of the 'Bombings to Date' in the Montreal Gazette from those times,.....Scary stuff really ,Think if that was hapenning around where we live these days:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SugiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=EqAFAAAAIBAJ&dq=bomb%20goes%20off%20at%20montreal%20stock%20exchange&pg=1777%2C2986088
keep scrolling down,after reading this Bombing list, & you will read the list of names of the 27 people who were injured,in the blast......
....TENSION...... HF&RV
John do you remember also the time the water main broke and flooded the whole bottom floor. I was on my way in that day . I ran in and jumped on the escalator that's when it hit those doors and gushed in down to the bottom floor. The power was cut off I hiked up to the 19th floor I think, once there they told us to go home. So down the stairs we went I was young then. I could not even get up there now, damn I couldn't even outrun the water. We went drinking after that. Remember Michael's?
That flooding rings a bell. But at my age bell ringing is something that is a constant.... Were the Washer's the ones from The Point???? that you use to hang around???
They lived on Egan is older brother was Dave I believe he was in charge of the data center at Sunlife.
If they were from the point previously I have no idea. Didn't all Verduners come from the Point first? Just joking
One of the Washer's was a girl named Norma....
Now that you say that I seem to remember there was an older girl but hey this was when I was pretty young and we didn't associate with the olser siblings. I will bew going to lake MacDonald in the summer and Terry is still there I will ask.
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