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| Random folk doing Tae Chi on the last-remaining slice of green space in Oxford Park |
Please have a look at it here, and feel free to comment on that site.
By the way, I don't know what hyperlocal means and I certainly don't want to encourage its use, so don't start peppering your conversation with that word and blaming me for it.
And as a further treat, here are some photos by Conrad Poirier shot of Oxford Park, the top two in 1938 and the last one, the doggie show, in 1940.
Thanks to HaroldRo for finding these among thousands of pics in the Poirier archive.
And if anybody seeks to know why the CDN-NDG administration has been so ineffective in dealing with serious issues, (and I include recent issues such as their inability to keep charity groups from placing awful metal industrial boxes around the area), then have a look at this video of the most recent borough council meeting. Borough mayor Lionel Perez and fellow party member Marvin Rotrand bicker unpleasantly with councillor Peter McQueen, all of them looking like children in a schoolyard fight insulting each others' backpacks. Shameful and pathetic all round. 
It's probably not a good thing to become too attached to a neighbourhood since they unfortunately tend to deteriorate as their populations shift and the residences and infrastructure succumbs to climactic conditions and negligence.
ReplyDeleteHow many children stay in the same part of town with their parents once they grow up and want their own homes?
Name just about any neighbourhood in major North American cities to see the decay.
Yes, "gentrification" may delay the inevitability but it isn't always successful.
Time to move on to better pastures.