Vers 1927-2008
Les bâtiments de la Dominion Oil Cloth & Linoleum Co Ltd, situées au premier plan de cette photographie furent détruit lors d’un incendie, possiblement au cours des années 1990.
Montage du jour : Vue aérienne près du pont Jacques-Cartier
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Must have been a pretty big fire.
It’s funny though, and yet tragic too at my ignorance at the same time. I lived in Montreal until 1998, delivered the Montreal Gazette for ten years until 1996, and somehow, I never hear of this.
Well, i’m really not sure about the year of the fire, so if someone know it, give us some infos !
J’ai une papier sur le fire.
Je va attacher si je peut.
Eek! I don’t know which looks worse: the factories or the parking lots.
Regarding the last post.
The Factories may well have been ugly, but, they DID provide Jobs for lots of People who used those Wages to make my and others’ lives much better even tho’ they possibly had little themselves.
The Parking Lots are sort of Ugly and Benign.
BUT!!! The Big Fear is if Montreal Copies Toronto-the-Good and the Sleazo Developers and the Grifters or who ever Zones the Land the Parking lots are upon, to build Mega Story soon-to-be Tacky Apartments/Condos whose presence will totally Block any View to the South Shore.
I was in Toronto Two Weeks ago prior to VIAing to Mtl., and the WHOLE Horizon below the Gardner-the-Ugly is Blighted by High Rises.
Looks terrible.
Centre Island? Where????
Everyone says Highrises are ‘Greener’ than the Factories, Freight Yards, etc., but Stop and consider how many Toilets, Showers, Sinks are in these Buildings, let alone all the Materials used to Build them?
How much Electricity and Fuel do they Consume?
How Many Automobiles do they Bring Downtown to an Already-Congested Core?
What do these People do for a Life? Highrises are a sort of Vertical Slum/Prison despite all the Glitz Vomited out by the Developers.
One would might rather live in Valleyfield or St. Jerome, St. Isadore or Huberdeau.
I hope Montreal does NOT allow Highrises on it’s Door Step, as they definitely block the View, AND Cast Long Shadows over what were once Sunny Areas.
I don’t know about the fire, or the ugly condos that might be built (and yes, Toronto is getting uglier. I know becasue I live here now (and build condos…)), but I do know that my Grandfather was the President of Dominion Oil Cloth for many years..His name was Kenneth B. Roberton, and his brother was V.P for a while. My grandfather died in the late seventies, but he made enough to give all his kids, and grandchildren (one being me) enough money for a down payment on a house (that mind you was adown payment for a house 25 years ago, which would be enough for a down payment on an….ugly condo).
Boyd Roberton