It has to be somewhere between De Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke, I am going to say Oxford because I need to go out and get a real job, I can't sit around here all day cataloguing all these old pictures for you.
Harvard was my first guess but the big building at the end on Sherbrooke doesn't match up.
I didn't even consider Prud'homme, but it is possible as the houses on the west side have very ornamental roofs which do not match up elsewhere, but google street view hasn't passed through there yet, but again, the Sherbrooke building does not match up... I think. Anyways, in old pictures of Montreal you can't rely on the ornamental roofs too much because they do not seem to last long.
So... I have to stick with Oxford as the windows on the back of the Sherbrooke building seem juuuuuust right.
It's funny how most of these streets are exactly the same, 2 rows of your typical NDG houses with only 1 3 story building in the middle of the block.
NDG's duplexes evolved slowly following its 1910 merger with Montreal, construction moving northward during the 1920s along many of those streets beginning at the railway tracks, across Sherbrooke and into the farmlands which were eventually subdivided.
My sister once lived on Beaconsfield, their duplex built in the 1920s.
harvard ave between sherbrooke and maisonneuve? the garage on the pic to the right looks exactly like joe auto which was still on the sw corner of harvard and maisonneuve last i checked
Not well-known is that during NDG's preliminary council meetings in the run-up to the final merger with Montreal (a deal largely made on Montreal's promise to run sewer pipes into the mostly rural town), it was suggested to rename NDG as either Montclair or New Westmount.
Montclair would have been an interesting choice, however the notion of choosing New Westmount was vehemently opposed by the town of Westmount itself which didn't want its well-established name confused or "sullied" with the upstart, mostly farmer residents of NDG.
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Is it Prud'homme between Sherbrooke and DeMaisonneuve?
ReplyDeleteIt has to be somewhere between De Maisonneuve and Sherbrooke, I am going to say Oxford because I need to go out and get a real job, I can't sit around here all day cataloguing all these old pictures for you.
ReplyDeleteHarvard, between Sherbrooke and de Maisonneuve
ReplyDeleteOne of these 3 answers is correct.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is Harvard is correct, contrary to my original post; however, I'm not positive.
ReplyDeleteHarvard was my first guess but the big building at the end on Sherbrooke doesn't match up.
ReplyDeleteI didn't even consider Prud'homme, but it is possible as the houses on the west side have very ornamental roofs which do not match up elsewhere, but google street view hasn't passed through there yet, but again, the Sherbrooke building does not match up... I think. Anyways, in old pictures of Montreal you can't rely on the ornamental roofs too much because they do not seem to last long.
So... I have to stick with Oxford as the windows on the back of the Sherbrooke building seem juuuuuust right.
It's funny how most of these streets are exactly the same, 2 rows of your typical NDG houses with only 1 3 story building in the middle of the block.
NDG's duplexes evolved slowly following its 1910 merger with Montreal, construction moving northward during the 1920s along many of those streets beginning at the railway tracks, across Sherbrooke and into the farmlands which were eventually subdivided.
ReplyDeleteMy sister once lived on Beaconsfield, their duplex built in the 1920s.
harvard ave between sherbrooke and maisonneuve? the garage on the pic to the right looks exactly like joe auto which was still on the sw corner of harvard and maisonneuve last i checked
ReplyDeleteNot well-known is that during NDG's preliminary council meetings in the run-up to the final merger with Montreal (a deal largely made on Montreal's promise to run sewer pipes into the mostly rural town), it was suggested to rename NDG as either Montclair or New Westmount.
ReplyDeleteMontclair would have been an interesting choice, however the notion of choosing New Westmount was vehemently opposed by the town of Westmount itself which didn't want its well-established name confused or "sullied" with the upstart, mostly farmer residents of NDG.
Harrumph!