Sunrise and another dog walker early in the morning.

The park lights are still illuminated early in the morning.

Former home (1900s) on W. B. Kingsley, superintendent of the Canadian Rubber Co.’s works.

“Canadian Rubber Company of Montreal was the first company in North America to manufacture rubber. Plant (located at 1840 Notre Dame East) damaged by fire in 1916. Occupied by Uniroyal Tire factory until 1982. The oldest section was demolished in 1995”. (Source: Industrial Architecture of Montreal)

This house is a bit of a puzzle. It is in the correct location for 25 Melbourne Ave.; however, the civic number is on Melville Avenue. Assuming it is the original house – it appears to be the correct age – the history is as follows:

Former home (1900s) of A. E. Gagnon, manager W. W. Ogilvie.

From Canadian Industrialists:

“Due to their westerly expansion, the Ogilvie mills became involved in the developing grain trade of western Canada and they built many grain elevators along Canadian Pacific Railway lines in Manitoba. At the time, because the Canadian Pacific Railway wanted to generate traffic for themselves, they offered incentives to build grain elevators along their railway lines that could not be passed upon by the Ogilvies. The result was a pseudo monopoly in grain purchasing because the CPR would not load grain directly from farmers or non-mechanical warehouses where there was a steam powered elevator present, such as those of the Ogilvie’s.

By the end of the 1800s, A.W. Ogilvie and Company was the largest miller in the dominion and had garnered a worldly reputation for producing flour of the finest quality. After the death of William Watson in 1900, a Canadian syndicate bought A.W. Ogilvie and Company and renamed it Ogilvie Flour Mills Company. The aggrandizement continued through mill building and acquisitions then, in 1968, John Labbatt Ltd. purchased the outstanding shares of Ogilvie. Subsequently, Archer Daniels-Midland Co. bought Ogilvie from John Labbatt Ltd. in 1993”.

Former home (1900s) of D. C. Dewar, Manager, Bell Telephone Company

Former home (1900s) of R. N. King, manager of the Ontario Bank.

“The bank and its 30 branches across the province were absorbed into the Bank of Montreal in the fall of 1906, after its general manager Charles McGill was found to have been speculating in the U.S. stock markets with bank funds and sustained an estimated $1.25 million in losses from ill-timed short sales. McGill was convicted of filing false tax returns and sentenced to a five year prison term early in 1907”. (source: Wikipedia)

Former home (1900s) of Horatio W. Nelson of the H. A. Nelson & Sons Co., Ltd. The company was a wholesale dealer of accessories and toys. They also manufactured wood cleaning items, such as brooms and brushes. A warehouse fire, in 1901, forced the closure of the company.
H. W. Nelson was also the director of the Molsons Bank (merging, in 1921, with the Bank of Montreal) and President of the Loan and Investments Association.

Former home (1900s) of Frank Cooper, manager of A. J. White & Co. an early Canadian publishing house.