History pieces of the weekend
It was 80 years ago, on the brink of World War II, that King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (mother of the present queen) visited Montreal, disembarking from a train at what’s now Parc station and processing down Park Avenue to the cheers of massed crowds.
Radio-Canada also notes that the BAnQ is making a lot of historical images and documents free to use via its website.
The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend looks at the corner of St-Jacques and Inspector, an intersection that no longer exists in Griffintown.
The Gazette continues with the “history through our eyes” feature, this week looking back at the 1977 Stanley Cup parade and the massive tire dump fire in St-Amable in 1990, among others.
ProposMontréal 15:14 on 2019-05-19 Permalink
Funny story about the Inspector-St-Jacques piece. The apartment (chambre) with the open window over the Matthew’s Lunch was my father’s first place when he arrived in Montreal in 1958. He called me at 7am this morning to tell me that his old place was in the Journal. (Although I already knew that, old folks like to repeat themselves)