Check back soon for more pictures of Montreal from the past!
The first series of pictures are from around 1900 and can be accessed on the Montreal, circa 1900 page under “Photographs”. Or you can click here.
I’ll be working on another series of pics from the 60s, 70s and 80s and post soon.
Cheers, hope you enjoy!
Taylor –
Sorry for the awful resolution, but I think my camera’s night-time settings leave a lot to be desired.
In any event, it’s on for another hour if you want to go pay your respects.
Keep an eye out for proposals for a lasting tribute – anything would be better than an empty parking lot.
So this would have been taken in the early 1970s from a rooftop in Westmount, likely at Grosvenor and Boul. de Maisonneuve (which you can see in its pre-bicycle path form centre-left in the pic).
This skyline view would have remained more or less constant until the late 1980s, and is the earliest memory I have of the city, which was eagerly pointed to me by my father when I was a wee toddler. I can remember parking off of St-Antoine and watching the construction of what was then known as the Laurentian Bank Building, and then walking under the CIBC Building, thinking it was the tallest I had ever seen.