History: A lost view of the Sun Life Building
The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend shows a lost view of the Sun Life Building – when 5 Place Ville Marie went up, it threw the eastern side of that building into perpetual shade.
The Gazette’s “History Through Our Eyes” looked at the opening of Expo 67 52 years ago, and at the 1944 crash of a warplane in Griffintown, among other historical incidents this week. It’s good that a paper as old as the Gazette is making a feature from their vast photo bank.
Max 19:35 on 2019-04-28 Permalink
Speaking of photos, the Gazette’s Gordon Beck passed away Thursday.
https://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/obituary-gordon-beck-gazette-photog-with-an-artists-sensitivity
Kate 07:02 on 2019-04-29 Permalink
Another Montrealer who died recently but has had only a brief listing is Victor Knight, who was one of the founders of the Dawson theatre program and otherwise a force in local English theatre. I didn’t know him, but I used to have some friends in theatre and thus heard the name from time to time. But nobody’s written a proper obit.