Over the next little while, I’d love to start the ball rolling. With the recent attention paid to midcentury modern neighbourhoods like Briarcliffe, I’d love to see more light shone on others – Vanier’s first and foremost. The idea is that on a quiet sunny Sunday morning, the light came through and I (at least feel) that my understanding of the ideal came to meet it.Īlthough it shouldn’t have been, the fact that it was Vanier was the pleasant surprise. I’m decidedly urban, compact, and foot-based in my preferences and what’s more is that I know that those still waters of the modern suburban idyll ran (and continue to run) deep. No, I am not one of those who actually believes in that ideal. It was there that I understood what they were after during that period. The ones I saw in the all-too-common depictions of those halcyon days past that infected movies of the 1980s as their directors were feeling those twinges of nostalgia. The ones that I saw in those ubiquitous Popular Mechanics encyclopedias. It was like I was walking through the glistening, new, clean images of midcentury suburban bliss. The level of care many of these properties receive is stupendous and I very much felt like I was walking through time.ģ67 St-Denis.

A gem! From there, I continued to explore Vanier north of Montreal road over the weeks. I may as well have been walking through this aerial. Denis, past the recently closed École Cadieux. Living on Deschamps was an adventure that year and made my way down St. Living in Vanier at the time, I was meandering about the part of it north of Montreal Road 2 Ask me in person, I’ll tell you in person. As I’m apt to do, I was out for a walk during the spring of 2006. Shields Library in South Porcupine can attest), I had never given it too much thought. Although I’ve always been interested in buildings, cities, and architecture (the Charles M. The markets could be hotter than hot, but builders tend to take a somewhat longer-term approach., I wasn’t much exposed.

Being from an area with very little of it constructed 1 Like many resource towns, construction tends to be done with a certain level of reluctance. Whether it’s what they grew up with or whether it was a particular building that stuck out, we’ve all got it.

Most anybody who fell in love with midcentury architecture can probably pinpoint a moment at which they did. I haven’t really formally editorialized much here on Margins, but I thought I’d take that opportunity to do so today. This is aside from the fact that paved streets and storm sewer systems were still considered to be, in most municipalities, an optional “nice to have” in new developments, and could wait.Ĭontinue reading Vanier’s Dangerous “Lac” Lafontaine, 1954 Posted on Saturday, ApMonday, DecemCategories Development Tags City of Vanier The El Ropo Restaurant Although the municipality’s red hot real estate market after the Second World War rendered the humiliation of being put under provincial management during the Depression a distant memory, its effect on Eastview’s infrastructure remained. Land in what was then known as Eastview was available for a song and builders like Sam Blake (for whom the street was named) and Marius Vachon were all too happy take advantage of the opportunity. In 1954, the apartment developments along Blake Boulevard were quite new. Current road-building techniques don’t allow the city’s streets to be quite as riparian.

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