Here are some old photos of Park Avenue and Bleury, forwarded to me from Nikos Karabineris.


Park and Laurier, looking west, around 1910.

Bleury and Ste-Catherine, 1916.

Park at Van Horne, new in 1920.

Park and Laurier, looking south, 1933. The barbershop with the striped awning in the foreground is now a Starbucks.

Construction of the Park Avenue train station in 1931. After a time it fell into disuse, then was briefly an Indigo bookshop and is now a large SAQ store.

Police lined up for the royal visit to the park in 1939. Hard to believe now, but from all I've read, that royal visit was a major event back then, and the royal family still popular here.
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