A new road will be built uniting de la Verendrye to Pitt. You might be familiar with Pitt as the street you saw when you were totally lost somewhere down in Cote St. Paul or St. Henry or whatever that area is called. This will provide an added way to get out of Verdun, something that many would recommend.
As you continue east on DeLaV, you have to either hop onto the 15 north or south, somewhere inthere there will be another option, go straight on through to the other side.
As you continue east on DeLaV, you have to either hop onto the 15 north or south, somewhere inthere there will be another option, go straight on through to the other side. 
For reasons not entirely clear to myself or Chimples of any of the seventeen interns here, this venerable old building at Pitt and Dunn is to be demolished, presumably because they plan to widen the road.
This is the end of Pitt, the side that will be connecting to DeLaV. The bodyshop will be demolished and the business moved to Lasalle, in February, according to what the guy told me.
The new neighbourhood doesn't have a ton of spectacular stuff going on but this building on Gladstone is very cool. I bumped into the owner a couple of years ago and he told me that it was once a school. Couldn't find much about it though. The area is a mix of residential and commercial, lots of guard dogs. If the St. Remi tunnel were adapted to have an entrance to this area, it would be even cooler.
This area was once informally called American Town. There was a company called American Axe (or something like that.) The old school building you showed may have once been the town hall of this area. When the Saint Remi Tunnel was opened in the 1950s, this area was partially cut off from the rest of the world, a task later finished by the building of Hi-way 15. Now you need 2 compasses to get in.
ReplyDeleteThe city started to kick residents out in the early 1980s and assemble land for an industrial park, the PRAIMONT Cabot.Residents complained and got some media coverage at the time.
Heh. I like how Google Maps thinks the Lachine Canal is the Saint Lawrence River. It is the same water after all.
ReplyDeleteThe old Tri-Steel building in which the body shop is located is all or partially owned by the Doak Brothers who also have other real estate holdings in the Point and along the Canal, and whose building converted to lofts on the old Crane Plumbing site is known in town as THE place for raves with hot young girls looking to score with older men.
ReplyDeleteClose, but according to the MTQ plans what you need to do is extend your red line through to St. Patrick parallel to Angers. Gladstone and Dunn will be truncated and linked to each other to form a loop that doesn't connect to the La V. extension. Where Pitt now parallels the Autoroute, there will be both an offramp/onramp lane and a new Pitt that does connect up with the La V. ext.
ReplyDeleteAccording to Lovell's Directory for 1931-32, that building at 1611 Gladstone was occupied by the Protestant Board of School Commissioners.
ReplyDeleteAs for the projected new street link-ups, the latest Google map as of January 2013 shows no activity as yet.