Westmount Park on New Year’s Day. It was late in the afternoon, and the sun was setting; however, the park was still full of children with their parents enjoying the snow.
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Westmount
Walking along Westmount’s commercial district on New Year’s Day – all the stores were closed. We joined other walkers spending their afternoon looking at window displays.
Westmount Park
Westmount Park, this evening, covered with a blanket of freshly fallen snow.
The dogs loved it – their noses were caked with frozen icicles from sniffing the park’s snow banks!
Westmount’s Lanes
Reminders of a simpler time – Westmount’s network of unnamed lanes
Westmount – Christmas Season
Houses, along our street, decorated for the holiday season.
Westmount Park
Westmount Park – currently a winter wonderland! Surprisingly, it was quite warm this evening. In the winter, dogs utilize their outer layer of fur that traps body heat like a blanket – if you look closely, the hairs are nearly vertical.
Westmount Park – First Snow
The season’s first snow fall – it’s always quite beautiful. Those that had to rely on a car for transportation this morning might not agree.
Westmount Public Library
A Sunday afternoon – well spent- in Westmount’s “library in the park”.
Melville Avenue
The rain (finally) stopped before an evening walk. Melville Avenue has an interesting array of grey-stone triplexes built in the late 1800s.
Westmount Park
Our evening walk through Westmount Park during a snowy Thursday evening.
The frozen lagoon traces the path of the former Glen Stream that used to flow from “Westmount Mountain”.
The stream’s path was north to south – the same direction as most (former) waterways that flowed through the island of Montreal. (Today they still flow in a series of underground in conduits).
During the usage of the French seigneurial system (established in the 1600s) farm land (“rangs”) was distributed to farmers on a north-south basis allowing each to have access to a source of water.
That is why most of Montreal’s residential streets run north to south and those that are commercial in nature run east to west – a living reminder of our former agricultural heritage.
Westmount Overlooked 