Large swim meet at the new Westmount Recreation Centre.

A plaque located inside the church’s main entrance.

Another view of the church’s stained glass windows.

Stained glass windows viewed from the interior of the church.

Residence of The Right Honourable Martin Brian Mulroney, P.C., C.C., G.O.Q., B.A., LL.L. Prime Minister of Canada from September 17, 1984 – June 6, 1993.

It felt like late Autumn today; however, this beautiful garden, on Forden Cresent, reminds us that summer is still upon us.

An attractive multi-coloured flagstone walkway on Forden Crescent.

From Wikipedia:

“Flagstone is a sedimentary rock that is split into layers along bedding planes. Flagstone is usually a form of a sandstone composed of feldspar and quartz and is arenaceous in grain size (0.16 mm – 2 mm in diameter). The material that binds flagstone is usually composed of silica, calcite, or iron oxide. The rock color usually comes from these cementing materials. Typical flagstone colors are red, blue, and buff, though exotic colors exist.

Flagstone is quarried in places with bedded sedimentary rocks with fissile bedding planes. Examples include Arizona flagstone and Pennsylvania Bluestone.
Lauze stone in Lannion (Brittany)

Around the thirteenth century, the ceilings, walls and floors in European architecture became more ornate. Anglo-Saxons in particular used flagstones as flooring materials in the interior rooms of castles and other structures. Lindisfarne Castle in England and Muchalls Castle (14th century) in Scotland are among many examples of buildings with surviving flagstone floors.”

It’s approaching late summer; however, this garden on De Maisonneuve near Metcalfe still looks magnificent.

The Church of Saint-Léon-de-Westmount’s Parks Canada plaque.

Parks Canada has a “guarded” explanation of their plaques:

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/docs/pc/poli/princip/sec2/part2d/part2d6.aspx

“Aspects of Canadian history declared to be of national historic significance will normally be commemorated by a Ministerial plaque bearing the inscription of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. A plaque is not a national historic site, although it may be erected at or on a national historic site. The existence of a Ministerial plaque at a site not administered by Parks Canada does not imply provision for protection or maintenance of the site by Parks Canada.”

Cleaning the emptied lagoon on an early Thursday morning.

It appears there was no concern about the Mallard ducklings that used the lagoon’s water, over the past month, as a “home”!