A Westmount townhouse at the corner of Abbott and Hillside.
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By Devin Alfaro
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A Westmount townhouse at the corner of Abbott and Hillside.
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it’s hardly a townhouse if it isn’t connected to the house next to it. Maybe it is a cottage?
Definitely a house. When I lived around the corner in the 1980s, I would often talk to the resident. He was a bachelor in his late 60s at the time. His parents had owned the house and he grew up in the house. Not many people can say that about their homes. He told me many stories of the neighbourhood over the long years he had lived there. On south side of Hillside where there is now a more modern looking housing development, a small CPR train yard of a few tracks used to occupy the site. In fact, there was a small train station on the south side of the tracks at the foot of Abbott Street. The station was in use from the time the tracks were laid in 1888 to 1907 when Westmount Station at the foot of Victoria opened.