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”!

Another example of the current granolith paving; distinctive to Westmount that will, in time, be replaced by poured – nondescript – concrete.

The “supermoon” viewed from Hillside Avenue on Sunday evening.

A beautiful garden on Barat.

(From what I can gather, the street was named “Barat” in honor of Madeleine Sophie Barat who founded the of Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 1800).

There is a (largely neglected) plaque, in the park, explaining the origin of the name “Queen Elizabeth Gardens”.

A row of maple trees were planted by the City, on June 2nd. 1953, to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

A green space off Wood Avenue and Sherbrooke Street.

Commonly called “Turtle Park” – when our daughter was small, there was a large plastic turtle in the children’s playground.

If one looks closely at older walkways in the City, the former granolith paving is evident.

Reading copies of the Westmount News, from the early 1900s, granolith paving was one of the City’s unique features.

Unfortunately, as walkways are being replaced throughout the City, concrete seems to be the norm – losing one of Westmount’s historical features.

A newly poured (white and non-distinctive) concrete sidewalk on Kensington Ave.

This seems to be the “norm” throughout the City. This pattern has been, unfortunately, repeated in Westmount Park.

I suspect the City is moving away from granolithic concrete for budgetary reasons – such a pity!