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.

Sugar Plum Tree Distributors of Quebec (1930).

Today the building houses a restaurant.

Boarded up door and former windows, covered with bricks, on the side of the former 1920s market store.

Another former market. Falle’s market (1920) & Laniel’s market (1940).

Today it is a craft shop.

Winchester avenue near Prince Albert. In the 1900s occupants included: blacksmiths, Canadian Pacific Railways staff and a superintendent of the Singer Manufacturing Company.

Entrance to the Seville apartments overshadowed by adjacent store fronts.

1930s occupants were the Victoria Upholstering Co. Ltd. & Hugman`s Handy Repair Shop.

Easily overlooked old entrance to a 4 unit apartment building. Old copper numerals over the door.

In the 1800s Sherbrooke Street West turned directly into Cote St. Antoine – it did not continue west as it does today.

There was a toll-bar at this junction. It seems it was quite profitable. The Legislative Assembly for the Province of Canada, in 1854, reported that the St. Antoine toll-bar collected 817 pounds, 17 shillings and 4 pence in the period between December 1852 and March 1853.