The former Wykeham House School – a private school for boys (1912).

Site of the former J. J. McManus boarding stables & Abbott (horse) Cab Service (1899). Now a green space in front of the City’s electrical substation.

Advertisement from the Westmount News, September 20, 1812:

“Abbott Cab Service
Cabs at all hours and regular rates
Strictly Sanitary Stables. Horses receive the best of care at the hands of experienced workman.”

Captain John A. McMaster (1899).

If one enlarges the picture, the letters “T Y Wald” are visible (etched in stone) on the lower right-hand side of the entrance.

The residence was designed by David Robertson Brown.

From: http://cac.mcgill.ca/home/archive.php?ID=10

“David Robertson Brown (1869-1946) was born in Montreal.

He began his career in 1885 as a draughtsman and pupil in the office of Alexander Francis Dunlop (1842-1923).

Later he worked as a draughtsman for Hutchison and Steele. Brown also worked in Boston, first at the firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, and later for the firm of Chas. Brigham.

He commenced his solo practice in Montreal in 1895.

Among his projects, Brown’s designs for the Chemistry Building at the University of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Life Insurance Company’s offices in Regina and Calgary are noteworthy.

Hugh Vallance (1866-1947) was born in Hamilton, ON. In 1883 he apprenticed with the Hamilton architect Charles W. Mulligan.

After further architectural training in Paris, Vallance worked in Boston for the firm of Hartwill, Richardson and Driver.

In 1907 Vallance moved to Montreal and set up practice in partnership with Brown.

Brown and Vallance designed, among other buildings, the Children’s Memorial Hospital (1907) in Montreal and the Medical Building (1910) of McGill University.”

F. H. Lewis & N. F. Lewis – Bank of Montreal (1899).

William Wright – Bagley & Wright Manufacturing Company (1899).

From Wikipedia:

“Bagley & Wright was a spinning, doubling and weaving company based in Oldham, Lancashire, England. The business, which was active from 1867 until 1924, ‘caught the wave’ of the cotton-boom that existed following the end of the American Civil War in 1865 and experienced rapid growth in the United Kingdom and abroad.”

F. Braidwood, Secretary and manager of the Canada Jute Co. (1899).

Advertisement from: Toronto Daily Mail, September 10, 1887

“Bags
All Sizes Kept in Stock or Made to Order of Linen, Jute or Cotton.
Canada Jute Company
Stark Bros., Agents, Toronto.”

Louis Amos, Architect and civil engineer (1899).

From: http://dictionaryofarchitectsincanada.org/architects/view/37

“….formed a partnership with Alfred A. Cox in Montreal. For the next 18 years the firm of Cox & Amos became renowned for its distinctive designs for bank buildings in Quebec and Ontario for the Eastern Townships Bank, the Bank of British North America, and for the Quebec Bank..”

Alexander McLeod – H. Shorey & Co., tailors (1899).

From: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/shorey_hollis_12E.html

“…he was the largest producer in Canada and was selling across the dominion and into Newfoundland and the West Indies. He occupied a large six-story building at the corner of Notre-Dame and Saint-Henri streets where 125 tailors and cutters turned out pieces for 1,500 outside workers. But the firm was more a monument to Shorey’s enterprise and skill than a modern manufacturing company. By the early 1900s it no longer existed.”

One of the doorways into the formerly named Academy Apartments.

This building was built, in 1921, as a residential hotel.

From: Montreal Gazette, February 12, 1921

“…built on the plan of the residential hotel and will contain fifty-two apartments…There will be a large ballroom on the ground floor and a cafeteria will be operated by the company on the same floor. Full hotel service will be furnished in the addition to the usual apartment house services.

The new building will be of four stories and basement. In size it will be 185 by 115 feet, with outside courts. There will be four entrances.”