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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.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Best of Montreal 2009 according to Montreal Mirror
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Changes to the Main.........well Maybe
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
Bye Bye Murray's
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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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Hogg Family were very active in commerce
A little article from a couple of years back re: Hogg Family ,....originally from the Westmount Examiner
From milk to mallets: lecture traces Hogg family history
By Caroline Breslaw and Grace Hogg
Article online since October 4th 2007, 8:26
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She began by pointing out that her ancestors left Scotland's Selkirk Valley in the early 19th century along with thousands of other emigrants. Her great, great, great uncle, grain merchant William Kerr, was the first of the family to arrive, settling in Montreal in 1829. He rented the Samuel Gale farm on the eastern edge of the old city limits – near today's Jacques Cartier Bridge. He prospered by selling hay and vegetables to the British army. In 1863, Kerr's niece, Margaret Laidlaw, married fellow Scot Walter Hogg; together they had three children.
In 1888, with the help of Uncle William Kerr, their eldest son, George Hogg,
began a career as a dairy farmer in Longue Pointe, in the city's east end.
In 1901, George and business partner William Trenholme purchased the
fledgling Guaranteed Pure Milk Company. The dairy was one of the first
to pasteurize its milk, gaining it a reputation for safe, reliable products at a time when unhygienic food processing and poor sanitary conditions contributed to a high infant mortality rate.
In addition to being president of the Guaranteed Pure Milk Company, George also operated the Purity Ice Cream Company and served as mayor of Westmount
from 1926 to 1930.
In 1948, George's son, William Hogg, succeeded him as president of the milk and ice cream companies. In turn, William was followed as president by his son, David Hogg. The dairy was sold to Ault Foods Ltd. in 1989.
In 1992, George Alexander Hogg, great grandson of George Hogg, opened
Hogg Hardware at 4833 Sherbrooke St., the site of the former Pascal's. Today, many family members, including George Alexander's bothers, Dave and Al, are involved in the business.
Members of the Hogg family have lived in Westmount for almost 100 years. They moved to the city in 1914, when George Hogg, his wife, Genty Drummond, and family left their Longue Pointe farm for a newly constructed home at 3637 The Boulevard. Four subsequent generations of Hoggs have also made their homes in Westmount. In 1977, as a tribute to his father, William Hogg established the George Hogg Family Foundation, a charitable organization which funds numerous Montreal charities.
During the animated question period, Grace's father, David Hogg, answered questions about the dairy. At the end of the evening, a group photo was taken of the many members of the Hogg family present.
Obituary Clarence Hill
My uncle, Clarence Hill passed away on the 3rd of September at the St Anne's Veterans Hospital. He grew up in Verdun with his 8 brothers and sisters. The family home was at 1090 Woodland Ave. He lived at 1281 Godin in the early sixtys and worked at Canadair and then Brown Boveri. The following is from the Gazette on Saturday:
| Clarence Hill | ||
| HILL, Clarence 1917 - 2009 At Ste-Anne de Bellevue Hospital on September 3, 2009, Clarence Hill passed away at the age of ninety-two years. He will be sadly missed by his wife Adele, his daughter Dolores (Pierre), brothers Harold (Helen), James, Thomas (Marie), Norman, sister Florence (Dick), his brother-in-law Philip, with many nieces and nephews. A service will take place on September 14 at 11 a.m in the presence of the urn at Rideau memorial Gardens, 4239 Sources Blvd., D.D.O., 514-685-3344. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated. | ||
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Monday, September 14, 2009
Big Milk Bottle getting saved .maybe the Cows are coming back two or (too) ...lol
Montreal's iconic Guaranteed Pure Milk bottle, currently covered in rust and graffiti, is about to get a makeover, thanks to Heritage Montreal and several soon-to-be-announced sponsors.
Scaffolding is going up around the bottle and work is expected to start by the end of the month on cleaning and repainting the structure, Robert Turgeon, chairman of the board at Heritage Montreal, told Metropolitan News. Turgeon said Heritage Montreal expects to announce the cost of the project and the names of sponsors in late September. The work should be completed by the end of October, he said.
On the scaffolding, workers have installed signs that read SauvonsLaPinte.com, which sends people to a Facebook page about the project.
From Heritage Montreal's file on the bottle (before it found sponsors to pay for its restoration):
The Guaranteed Pure Milk dairy plant, a remarkable Art Deco building which attests to the presence of the milk industry in the heart of Montreal, was built in 1930. It supports a water tank shaped as a giant riveted steel quart of milk 10 metres tall built by Dominion Bridge of Lachine. The milk bottle is almost a poetic emblem of the downtown area, a naïve architectural element which contrasts with the more monumental features of the neighbourhood.
The Guaranteed Pure Milk dairy plant and its milk bottle bear witness to the past presence of the agro-processing industry right in the heart of the metropolis as well as a reminder of the traditional means of delivering milk.
Shut down in the 1990s and used as a site for shooting TV series, the building faces an even more uncertain future with the arrival of the E-Commerce Place. Promoters would preserve only the façade of the building. What will happen to the milk bottle? Moreover, the bottle is suffering from lack of maintenance; the metal is rusting, and its appearance has been affected.
Héritage Montréal intervened as part of a coalition to request that the E-Commerce Place project pay greater attention to its urban environment, and in a manner less devastating to the site’s heritage. Industrial heritage continues to be a subject of concern by the organisation, which wishes to embark on a specific protection project for the milk bottle.
- Andy Riga
Restoration underway,..............HF&RV