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| Graham survived the dynamiting & died in '38 |
Graham was given his Lordship a few years before and it's easy to see that opponents might have seen this as him selling out young Canadians in order to get a title. It was the last title given in Canada before the Nickle resolution set in, so you could say he wrecked it. Herbert Ames was also very supportive of conscription.
Now those who attacked Graham's Cartierville mansion did not succeed in killing him and were not that hard to find. They had held many anti-conscription rallies.
Others disassociated themselves from this hard line and said that the Brits should simply find Brits that went AWOL in the states rather than conscript Canadians. They seemed to think there were countless such people.
The Google-scanned Montreal Gazettes are not available for the dates in question so reporting on the event is spotty and it's unclear to me right now what sentence they received.We know that seven were arrested September 1, four more on September 4 as the plot to kill PM Borden and Parliament was exposed. Fellow-conspirator Joseph Luduc shot himself in Lachute a few days later as he was being apprehended. Joseph Tremblay admitted that the gang had a long list of targets.
In the spring of 1918 nine went on trial and five were immediately dismissed, including one named Romeo Wisintainer. The jury had trouble deciding the fate of the other four.
Strangely some were described as cocaine addicts.
Lalumiere seems to have co-operated with the authorities to great lengths, in fact he supposedly even removed the bullets from his co-conspirators' weapons before an attempted assassination.
Atholstam's place in Cartierville is now a park, called Beausejour Park.
Press mogul Baron Atholstan's home was dynamited, presumably by anti-conscriptionists
ReplyDeleteThe landing of a BOAC Brittania in the early 60's at Cartierville Airport . instead of Dorval.
ReplyDeleteBelmont Park?
ReplyDeleteClosure of the Cartierville airport?
ReplyDeleteOr the conversion of its agricultural landscapes into the present medium-density industrial clusterfuck?
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At one time direct Electric train service from CNR Cartierville station at Gouin via Val Royal and the Mount Royal Tunnel to Central Station.
ReplyDeleteThank You.
RAF pilot Captain Brian Peck flew the first airmail flight in Canada from Bois-Franc Field to Toronto's Leaside Field in 1918, carrying 120 letters.
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What was the address in Cartierville...where was it located vis-a-vis a current-day mark?
ReplyDeleteBelmont park for sure. Otherwise there was no reason to ride the 17 to the end of the line at Spot Bowling.
ReplyDeleteIt's a big park now, just west of that insane asylum. I have the link at home. I'll add it later.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day, before the present urban flustercluck, the reason you went to Belmont Park was so you COULD ride the 17 streetcar.
ReplyDeleteThank You.
OK, found it....where Parc Beausejour is today, on Gouin between Laurentien Blvd and Toupin. Hans Sontag, the "Father of the 211 Bus", when he was Superintendent at the old St-Henri Bus Garage, lived on Toupin (he later headed up the Caraquet NB Chamber of Commerce, and then retired to Niagara Falls).
ReplyDeletePark Beausejour, in the summer months usually a nice quiet place during the week, can on any given weekend descend into a noisy racket of unruly families with their cook-out clutter--some of whom even brazenly drive their cars right into the park to unload despite the signs at the gate forbidding motorized vehicles--as is the law in most city parks.
ReplyDeleteSpring flooding from the Back River has on occasion sent huge chunks of ice into the northwest end of the park, a force of nature so strong that the thick metal fence has even been bent right over and breached, requiring complete replacement.
The former public toilet/rain shelter in the eastern part was closed and shuttered for years until it was reconstituted into a pseudo snack-bar with toilet facilities.
Some playground equipment, such as childrens' swings have been removed and not replaced, and ridiculously loud, high-powered rivercraft seem to take delight in soaring endlessly back and forth, disturbing the peace. Are there no laws against this?
Cyclist and hiker access to the park was recently improved when a bike/pedestrian path was connected from the underpass at the west side of the Lachapelle Bridge then linking directly from the top ends of Cousineau and Crevier Streets, across a wood planked overpass, and then along the shoreline directly into the park, thus providing visitors with an option to avoid traffic on Gouin Blvd.
Your caption on the photo, "Graham survived the dynamiting but eventually died", might imply to some that he eventually died of injuries sustained in the bombing, while nothing could be further from the truth as Hugh Graham passed away on January 8. 1938.
ReplyDeleteSee: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Graham,_1st_Baron_Atholstan
Closure of the Dragon House restaurant on De Salaberry (near corner of Lachapelle) 10 years ago? ;)
ReplyDeleteWhenever I think of Cartierville, I think of that Chinese food restaurant and how I miss it!
Cartierville? The only reason anyone could possibly have to go there was Belmont Park. And while St.Aubin Ice Cream at Cote Vertu and Laurentian wasn't quite Cartierville, it was close enough.
ReplyDeleteY'know, it was good enough when we called it "The Cartierville Bridge", I still haven't gotten used to "Pont Lachapelle".
By the way, I once got into an impromptu race with a guy in Hull. from Hull to the Cartierville Bridge, all via Route 8 (now 148) in 90 minutes. In the middle of the night you hardly even notice Lachute, Thurso, and all the other dipshit towns along the way.
In the olden days.. Cartierville was happening! Chez Maxime next to Hotel Pierre (is that area even considered Cartierville?); people would actually swim in the water in the 40s, 50s, 60s, early 70s.. so yeah, the entire strip of land north of Belmont Park/along Beausejour Park was like a beach (without sand).. Au Pot Disco Bar and Le Harem (bikers' hangout?)... Val Royal train station... McDonald's, Harvey's, Lafleur ...
ReplyDeleteomggg Dragon House... best eggrolls EVER!!!
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ReplyDeleteCool! Someone else who remembers how awesome Dragon House egg-rolls were (or that dark, thick and sweet plum sauce they kept in little bottles on each table!). Do you remember their pineapple chicken? I would kill to taste that again!
Did you know they still have a sister restaurant in Lachine called Dragon Loon Wah? EXACT same egg-rolls, but sadly the plum sauce and everything else has changed.
Update re. Beausejour Park:
ReplyDeleteVisiting there recently on a weekday, it was relatively peaceful There were few visitors--with the exception of barking dogs in the neighbourhood west of the forest and someone's child having an incoherent screaming fit out of my viewing range--probably near the new kiddie playground apparatus which replaced the older, long-removed swings that I'd mentioned in my earlier post.
Furthermore, there are now signs forbidding barbecue cookouts in ther park, among other things like golfing and unleashed dogs.
Anyone know exactly where Atholstan's house was located? I would guess it would have been in the northeastern sector.
My brother and I used to juke school in the '80s, me grade 7, him his senior year, and we'd hang out at the park until my sis and mom left the house. He'd send me every so often to check if the car was gone. My eyesight was so poor I had to come dangerously close to the house to see if my sister's orange Datsun was gone. Freezing our butts off sometimes.
ReplyDeleteMy friend told me he and his buddies would play in the asylum's beautiful baseball diamond, but almost always one of the patients would spot them from a window and in no time the whole joint would empty onto the field and ruin their game.
I used to foolishly walk along the river ice from the end of our street, Jasmin to the park and climb up onto the safety of the park only to see giant holes in the ice further down. Stupid kid.
We moved to Cartierville sumer '82, devastated to find Belmont Park closing. We went many times to the park the years we lived in Park Ex.
Corner of Laurentian and Gouin was a longtime resto called Aladin. It looked classy. Harem was just to the west, same row of buildings I think.
The Cartierville near Grenet and Salaberry was always seedy. Crack houses, crime. Never felt unsafe walking from the 64 stop to home or from Spot off Gouin. Dragon House was a fixture in that strip mall. Down on Laurentian, Lafleur outlasted McD's (the only Golden Arches besides the unionized one south shore that I heard of ever closing anywhere), Harvey's which became Tim's late 90s I believe, Igloo just next to Lafleur which was an ice cream place and snack bar.
In centre 3000 plaza at Keller and Laurentian, Mikes was there for many years and a mom and pop ice cream place O'Delice where some buddies worked during the summer and gave me some freebies. The video store and Giovanni's Expresso were good stores too, which we frequented as teens.
Latina 80 supermarket on the edge of the projects, longtime business, the owners of which are neighbours of ours on Jasmin street.
Marlboro park off Robichaud was nice but alas only a 5' deep pool. We went to Noel North for the deep end and divinfg board where I had to be rescued by a pretty lifeguard when I panicked after my jump in. Noel North and South had good soccer and baseball fields. My friends and I would get some brews and paper bag in the stands watching the beer leagues summer of '94 when the Expos championship dreams were locked out.
Fun to live so close to the Saraguay woods and the bike path that led all the way to DDO. The river too was fun. My cousin and I played a game where we would take turns throwing a tennis ball onto the frozen river and the other had to retrieve it. He was 3 years older than me and could throw farther. I remember more than one time getting to a place where the ice was thin, would crack a bit, and where you could see pockets of water and air. Again, stupid kids!
Cartierville has always been my favourite suburb on or off the island. Wide streets, circuitous routes and dead ends deterring through traffic, leafy neighbourhoods, good housing stock, good schools, it seemed miles away from the ghetto on the other side of Laurentian. I believe the area where we lived (houses built circa 1977) was a golf course before (there is even a Golf Road off Gouin). To the west around Toupin which becomes mostly St.Laurent, those houses were older, 60s probably; lots of mid-century modern bungalows and splits.
Update on Beausejour Park:
ReplyDeleteOn June 10, 2013 no sooner did I arrive at the northwestern sector of the park than I was literally swarmed by a cloud of ravenous mosquitoes--something I had never experienced there during all of my previous visits going back decades.
My attempts to find a less-infested area within the park without becoming eaten alive proved futile, forcing me to leave eastward along the trail and wooden bridge over the likewise-infested swamp and wooded area bordering Crevier Avenue.
I later phoned 311 to report my experience to the city on the assumption that they would schedule public works crews to spray this and other such public areas with insecticide, but I was told that it is in fact the provincial government which has the jurisdiction to deal with such mosquito infestations, and not the City of Montreal. No relevant provincial government phone number was offered to me, however.
Understandably, the recent wet weather has contributed to the increase of certain insect populations, and because the potentially deadly West Nile fever has once again been in the news of late, I would presume and hope that a vigourous campaign of anti-mosquito spraying take place as soon as possible.