Here are some images from "Then and Now". You should initially see the old image. Move your mouse over the
image to see what the site looks like today (2004-2005).
This building served as St Cunegonde town hall, post office,
fire station and library during the brief existence of the town of St Cunegonde (1875-1905).
The building now serves as a local community center. Note the two truck garage used to fit three horse trawn wagons.
from Collection Bibliotheque Nationale, Quebec
This was home of Berliner Gramophone Company which later became the RCA Victor Corporation.
photo from the Emile Berliner Museum.
Today the building houses the Emile Berliner Museum
and other tenants including many artists and craftspeople. The views shown here, I am told, are actually from opposite sides of the building.
However the the contrast between the two billboards is indicative of
the fate of local manufacturing.
Then: New conveyer Bridge, Redpath Sugar Refinery (1964)
Source: SPEK - Urban Exploration
Now: 2005. The building on the right was used by Agmont for knitting and dyeing until
it went bankrupt a few years ago. Although the Redpath complex has mostly gone Condo, and the
company is owned by British Tate & Lyle and run out of Toronto, this original Redpath logo seen here
still graces every pack of Redpath sugar!
Redpath Sugar Refinery, 1939 and Redpath Condominuims, 2005. Notice the spawling old Northern Electric (now Nortel) buiding on the right in the background.
A careless smoker brought this Notre Dame building down in 2003. By 2005 it has been rebuilt as affordable but bland condos.
Georges Alepins decor was as instutution on Notre Dame Street.
from Vivre en Ville - St Henri, from Vivre en Ville-St Henri Société historique de Saint-Henri
