Photo du Jour : Corner of McGill and Wellington

8 comments

1. uh mcgill and wellington? mcgill college is in a different part of town, and it doesn’t intersect wellington.

2. Il s’agit de la rue McGill et non McGill College.

3. thanks David & Alex. Fixed.

4. You have to go to that square at night, the LED lighting is fantastic! The colours shift from green to red to blue. The round platform commemorates the windmill that was there in the 18th century and the history of the area and the renewal are explained on plaques. Very innovative. A real gem.

   I really like what has been done in Cité Multimédia. The old is very well intergrated with the new. The sidewalks are fantastic and the (new) lighting and street furniture appear to be by Michel Dallaire. The LED lamps though are by Schréder, the same company involved in Quartier des Spectacles and I think Rutherford Resevoir. I hope that something similar will spill over into Griffintown once the Bonaventure is levelled, with more emphasis on mixed-income residential.

5. The small building was the terminal station of the Montréal & Southern Counties interurban line.

   http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montr%C3%A9al_%26_Southern_Counties

6. Here is the M&SC station, to the right of the interurban car, which is facing East.

   http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/qu/htm/msc04.htm

   This car has just gone around the block is heading West for Black’s Bridge, Mill St., the pumping station at the West end of Bickerdyke basin, the coal yards and then Victoria Bridge to the South Shore.

   http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/qu/htm/msc11.htm

   The boom of the floating steam crane usually at the entrance to the Lachine Canal can be see above the car.

   These and other historic photos of Montreal and Quebec electric railways can be found here.

   http://www.davesrailpix.com/odds/qu/qu.htm#msc

   Long after abandonment in the fifties, the M&SC Montreal station became a great burger joint with all sorts of historic memoribilia within named ‘Il Etais une Fois.’

   The restaurant’s logo was a set of concentric circles with the name inside the two and a head on view of an interurban car in the centre, the idea taken from the real M&SC Crest.

   Amazing the building still exists!!

   Once a great way to get to St Lambert, Mackayville and beyond, the headlight approaching a lovely sight on a cold winter’s night.

7. This is how Griffintown should look.

8. The Montreal and Southern Counties logo can be seen top left in this link.

   http://pages.videotron.com/egfield/navigator/index.htm

   The restaurant ‘Il Etais une Fois’ later in the M&SC Station, used the same logo with their own name within the outer circle.