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.
Our society (SHGV) has received an enquiry asking if we recognize this building. The lady in question found the photo in her old shoe box. I never saw this photo before and may not be from Verdun, however, perhaps a member may recognize it. Notice the escape chute on the right.
Guy
Keeping with Guy's thread about Corona,...Heres' an example of the 'family size' Remember when we called them that......this example is for sale on ebay,..for about $14.99,.for an empty.....Sheeeeeeeeesh !!! didn't we buy this stuff for about .15 cents full of Kik Cola..Yikes' that's a mark up baby loo................... "Aye Carumba"..... (Bill , that's for you ,hahahaha)
This add of the Corona Soft Drinks Ltd appeared in the 1954 Guardian. Judging by the numerous delivery trucks appearing on the photo, they must have done a lot of business specially in Verdun. The address shows 0650 Atwater wich would have been near Verdun Avenue. I know from previous research that they had an address on Verdun avenue near Atwater wich is now Henri Duhamel Avenue. I previously took photos of that area including in the lane and saw some old buildings wich may have been part of their bottling plant. There was mention of this company on the old site so I guess there are still some Verdun old timers around that remember the CORONA solft drinks.
Guy
MADRID – Montreal singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, who turns 75 next week, was released from a hospital in Spain hours after collapsing on stage during a concert, hospital sources said Saturday.
Organizers of his concert in the eastern city of Valencia said he had fainted on stage Friday night after being stricken with food poisoning.
Witnesses told Spanish media Cohen was performing Bird on the Wire about half an hour into the show when he lost his balance as he went to pick up a guitar.
He was saved from falling by backing singers, but moments later he collapsed again and was helped off stage to receive treatment from a medical team in the concert hall.
He was then taken by ambulance to hospital, from which he was discharged in the early hours of Saturday, the hospital sources said.
A clip from the concert posted on YouTube showed him sitting on a platform on the stage and then keeling over sideways.
He had performed three songs - Dance Me to the End of Love, The Future and There Ain't No Cure for Love - before he collapsed.
A member of his band, Javier Mas, came out almost an hour later to tell the thousands of people gathered in the Luis Puig Velodrome that Cohen was suffering from a stomach complaint and would not be returning to the stage that night, but that he hoped to reschedule the show for another time.
Valencia was the penultimate stop on his nine-concert tour of Spain, which is due to end in Barcelona on Monday, his 75th birthday.
Born in Montreal, Cohen published books of poetry before embarking on a singing career with his smash debut album Songs of Leonard Cohen in 1967, which included one of his best-known songs, Suzanne.
He quit the music scene in the early 1990s, living at a Buddhist monastery in California, where he was ordained a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and took the name Jikhan, meaning "silence."
But he was forced to return after he was swindled out of his retirement nest egg by his former manager.
His most recent album, Heather, was released in 2004. And last year, he embarked on his first world tour in 15 years.
His music has inspired countless artists and more than 1,000 renditions of his work have been recorded by R.E.M., Elton John, Jeff Buckley, Joe Cocker, Willie Nelson, k.d. Lang, Tory Amos, Nina Simone and Peter Gabriel.
His songs have also has been used in dozens of movie soundtracks such as Natural Born Killers and Shrek.
These type of thieves should really be treated a bit differently,.perhaps a trial in the states instead,where they will put you away,...Just ask Bernie or Conrad.......lol
MONTREAL – Failed financier Vincent Lacroix will get to sleep in his own bed for the first time in 20 months on Sept. 27.
The man convicted in 2007 of swindling $115 million from 9,200 investors in his now-defunct Norbourg Group of mutual funds has been granted full parole, his lawyer Clemente Monterosso confirmed on Friday.
Lacroix, 42, has been living at a halfway house since being released on day parole July 21.
He was convicted on 51 Quebec Securities Act violations in a 2007 civil trial and was sentenced Jan. 28 to 12 years behind bars – a term subsequently reduced to 8 1/2 years, then last month to five years less a day by the Quebec Court of Appeal.
But he could return to prison for as long as 14 years if found guilty on the nearly 200 criminal charges of fraud, conspiracy to defraud, conspiracy to commit forgery, fabricating documents and money laundering laid by the RCMP following their investigation into Norbourg.
Jurors are being selected for that trial which could begin next week.
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Just waiting for the final enveloppes stuffed with brownies,to land on the right desks,before a final OK is given to expropriate some buildings to make way for a new complex or something....... Lower Main actually which ,if I remmeber correctly was in sad shape way back in the 70's ??
MONTREAL – The city’s executive committee is expected to decide on the next steps for the $160-million lower Main redevelopment project Thursday, André Lavallée said Wednesday.
He specifically refused to confirm or deny whether expropriation orders, and how many, are among the steps planned.
Lavallée – the member of the executive committee responsible for urban development – is the city’s point man on the project, which is meant to help revitalize Montreal’s old red-light district along St. Laurent Blvd., between Ste. Catherine St. and René Lévesque Blvd.
Members of the top city committee met to discuss the project Wednesday, he said in a brief interview, “but we are waiting for answers to some questions.”
“We are also waiting for some information from the Quebec Ministry of Culture.”
In early August, the Office de consultation publique de Montréal issued a report suggesting that some elements of the project be reconsidered.
The plans as submitted for the consultation hearings would require the demolition of eight buildings, including several neo-Roman greystones built between 1890 and 1930.
janr@thegazette.canwest.com
Some of Our members will feel some nostalgia ,for this story,.Murray's Restaurant is closing for good........ (even my Mom worked there a long time ago,) Oh Well time march's on,perhaps it can be replaced by a nice McDumpy's or something equally as tasteful(or tasteless)
........maybe they can tear it down & make something usefull out of it..............lol
Please share your Murray’s memories in the box at the end of the story.
MONTREAL - Although many had been hoping for a comeback, it appears the city’s last Murray’s Restaurant, in Town of Mount Royal, will not reopen.
Facing bankruptcy, owners of the landmark restaurant in the Lucerne Shopping Mall have applied to a Quebec court for creditor protection.
Among the creditors are TD Canada Trust and First Capital Realty, the corporation that owns the strip mall where the restaurant is located.
“There will be no reopening of Murray’s,” said Mike Ouellette, a Montreal accountant representing Mounir Yassa and his wife, Alice, the restaurant’s owners since in 2007.
Since the restaurant closed at the end of July, Ouellette said, there has been interest from two potential buyers.
But, he added,“it didn’t work out.”
“It’s very unfortunate,” said Louis Voizard, a vice-president with First Capital Realty, one of the restaurant's creditors.
“It was a popular restaurant for many years."
Voizard said the restaurant owes First Capital $36,141 for “rent-related items.”
TD Canada Trust, a second creditor, is owed $211,422, according to court documents.
This summer, Mounir Yassa said, he was well aware of the restaurant’s storied past and, for that reason, he had tried to keep it afloat.
But it was a losing venture that was costing him between $8,000 and $12,000 a month, he said.
After the Murray's restaurant on Sherbrooke St. W. in Westmount closed in 1999, the Murray's eatery in T.M.R. became the last one standing in the city.
The chain, which got its start in the 1920s, once served diners in Montreal, Ottawa and Toronto.
ccornacchia@thegazette.canwest.com
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