Westmount places:
Sherbrooke Street /2

The history behind the familiar: the former residents who called the street their home

By Michael Walsh

May 18, 2026

Let us take a leisurely stroll along Sherbrooke Street and become acquainted with the homes and stores while rediscovering the stories hidden within their facades. Perhaps one of these will rekindle your association with Sherbrooke Street.

3055 Sherbrooke
Chequers Court Apartments (1929)

“Chequers Court, erected in 1929, was designed by David R. Brown on the grounds of a former Sulpician farm.  The stock market crash, that same year, prevented construction of the additional one-third of the building’s original design.
Chequers Court, the new apartment house just being completed at the corner of Sherbrooke and Vignal streets, opposite the huge building and gardens of the Congregation de Notre Dame, will be occupied this month… Each 7-room suite comprises an entry vestibule, a foyer, a living room with an open fireplace, a dining room, three bedrooms, a bathroom, a kitchen pantry, a maid’s room and bath… the floor of the apartments is oak and the trim throughout of solid mahogany, while the windows are of English casement… In the main vestibule, the floors are of travertine marble set on a black-and-gold marble base. The large open fireplaces in the living rooms have facing and front hearths in black-and-gold and antique verde marble…”
– Montreal Gazette, May 7, 1929

Robert Mitchell Company ad (1871)

4101 Sherbrooke
Société Canadienne D’Histoire Naturelle – 1946
Durnford, Bolton, Chadwick & Ellwood, Architects – 1961
The firm built several residences for McGill University in 1961: Bishop Mountain, Gardner, McConnell and Molson Halls.

4103 Sherbrooke
Richard Ramsay Mitchell, President, Robert Mitchell Company – 1912
Converted into a two-family dwelling – 1941

4113 Sherbrooke
G. S. Pelton, hardware merchant – 1899

“For Sale… this handsome house is most substantially built, the decoration is very artistic throughout; the beautiful wood-work is one of the leading features…”
– Montreal Gazette, November 1907

“For rent – attractive residence with grounds, sandstone front, thirteen rooms and three bathrooms…”
– Montreal Gazette, August 1915

Order of Saint Stanislaus (Imperial House of Romanov) • Image: Public Domain

Dr. Alloway – 1897
Major-General (Sir) John Wallace and Lady Carson – 1918
Awarded the Order of St. Stanislas (1918)

4115 Sherbrooke
J. C. Meadowcroft, architect – 1950
Noted for the design of the National Research Council of Canada’s Environmental Chemistry Laboratory M 20 (1951)

4134 Sherbrooke
J. Millen, J. Millen & Son – 1899
“The company was founded in 1872 and dealt first with bicycles. It sold the business to CCM and entered the automotive parts field – the first firm in Quebec to do so. The store’s branches stocked parts and automotive paints. Ownership of the firm is still retained in the Millen family and the son of the founder, J. Ernest Millen, 82, arrives at his Montreal office early every morning to superintend details of the expanding enterprise.”
— Val d’Or Star, September 12, 1952

Sculpture by J. Seward Johnson Jr. • Image: Michael Walsh

4141 Sherbrooke
Westmount Life Building – 1969
The sculpture was created by J. Seward Johnson Jr. and “sited by Sculpture Placement, Washington D.C.” It was featured in a PBS Sesame Street episode in the 1980s.

Shorey, Ritchie and Douglass, architects – 1959

Harold Edgar Shorey (1886 – 1971) and Samuel Douglas Ritchie (1887 – 1959), architects
“Harold Edgar Shorey was born in Montreal in 1886. A member of the architectural associations of Quebec and Ontario as well as the RAIC, Shorey studied architecture at McGill University. He then continued his training in New York with the firms Warren and Wetmore and George B. Post and Sons. In 1912, he toured Europe before settling in Montreal. In 1919, he founded the firm Shorey & Ritchie, architects, with architect Samuel Douglas Ritchie (1887–1959). In 1947, the firm welcomed architect C. L. Douglas and became Shorey, Ritchie and Douglas.”

“During the first decades of the twentieth century, Shorey & Ritchie were involved in the design of residential buildings in Montreal, including the expansion of the Lord Atholstan House in 1929, 1172 Sherbrooke Street West (1894–1895). Shorey and his associates also designed several public and institutional buildings throughout Quebec and Ontario, including the Hemming hydroelectric power station in Drummondville (1924–1926), Thetford Mines High School, Bedford High School, the extension of Strathcona Academy in 1931, 520 Côte-Sainte-Catherine Road (1898), and Fire Station No. 10, 1684 De Maisonneuve Boulevard (1931).”
– Les Propriétés municipales d’intéterêt patrimonial, Ville de Montréal

Iberville Developments Limited, property developers – 1993

“Founded in 1958, Iberville Developments Ltd. has steadily grown over the years to become one of the largest real estate owners in the province of Quebec and in Eastern Canada. With its head office in Montreal, the company owns and manages its portfolio of over 100 properties covering nearly 8 million square feet. Iberville’s interests are diversified, consisting principally of retail shopping centers but also including significant office, industrial, and residential assets. Additionally, the company possesses a sizeable land bank for future development. Iberville has a presence in the U.S. market with property holdings in Texas and Florida. Iberville is also active in real estate merchant banking in both Canada and the United States.”
– ibervilledev.com

Michael Fish, Morris Melamed, architects – 1961

Érotisme 1983-1986 by A. Vaillancourt

4150 Sherbrooke
This piece of art has an interesting history. It is named Érotisme 1983-1986 and was created by A. Vaillancourt. It was quite different in appearance when it was initially installed: it depicted frontal nudity. Due to the “horror” of some local residents, M. Vaillancourt was sent back into his art studio to create several pieces to cover the “offending parts”.

E. H. Heward, manager, West End Branch, Merchants Bank of Canada – 1899
“At that time, the Merchants Bank and the Bank of Montreal were Canada’s largest banks – they both merged in 1921. The merger was not one of equals. The 400-branch Merchants Bank of Canada was badly mismanaged and faced $8 million in losses, equal to nearly $80 million today. The Merchants’ shareholders saw a large portion of their capital wiped out. The Bank Act, 1871, fiddled with over the years but still largely intact, had proven inadequate to the task of protecting bank investors and customers. The only good news was that Merchants Bank was not too far gone for the Bank of Montreal to save.”
– The Bank That Went Bust, Canada’s History

Merchants Bank of Canada Bank Note – 1903 • Image: CanadaCurrency.com

Westmount Life Insurance Company – 1963
Financial Collection Department – 1972

4162 Sherbrooke
Apartment house, demolished – 1939

4166 Sherbrooke
A. Holden & A. E. Holden, Ames Holden & Company – 1899

Ames Holden Co. Postcard (1901)

“In the early years of the twentieth century, Saint-Hyacinthe’s bourgeoisie struggled to restore the boom conditions of the 1880s and early 1890s… The municipal government played a role in the reopening of the former Seguin-Lalime shoe factory. To keep the factory running, council made an attractive offer to the Ames Holden shoe company of Montreal. In 1903, Ames Holden was essentially given the Seguin-Lalime property on Cascades Street (worth $50,000) plus a bonus of $8,000 and a 10-year tax exemption. In exchange, the company was required to pay $400,000 in wages over the ensuing 10 years. By 1913, the factory was operating at, or near, former levels: 455 workers were earning $200,000 per year wages.”
– Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe, Peter Gossage

Demolished 1968

Crane sink ad, National Geographic, January 1923

4181 Sherbrooke
Property converted into a two-story dwelling in the 1920s.
Joseph Levinson Sr., Director, S. & G. Clothing Company Limited (2050 Bleury Street) – 1946
Known as the “Caron Building,” it now houses the provincial government’s Centre de Services Québec.

4187 Sherbrooke
Gaston Latremouille, salesman, Crane Limited – 1933
Fitz-James E. Browne, Founder and First President of the Montreal Real Estate Board – 1937

“…Two of his most important transactions… were the purchase of land for the Jacques Cartier Bridge for the Government and the sale of the old Montreal High School property on Peel Street, where the Mount Royal Hotel is now situated, for $1,345,000. He (Fitz-James Browne) took great delight in recalling the end of the last century, when property on St. Catherine Street was selling at $6 and $8 a foot, and on Sherbrooke Street for $1 a foot…”
– Montreal Gazette, June 1938

E. Denis De La Ronde, French conversation tutoring service – 1941

Dr. A. Vibert Douglas • Image: Canadian Federation of University Women

4193 Sherbrooke
Alice V. Douglas – 1917

“Connected with the National Service Bureau was made a member of the Order of the British Empire. Her brother, of the 17th Northumberland Fusiliers, Pioneers, was awarded the Military Cross. She was the first woman to be President of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (1943-44), but this was only one of many distinctions she held. She was made a Member of the British Empire in 1918 for her work with the War Office in London, England, received honorary degrees from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and from the University of Queensland, Australia, was President of the International Federation of University Women, and was selected in 1967 by the National Council of Jewish Women as the “Woman of the Century” for Ontario.”

“Allie Douglas (as she was known in her youth and to her closest friends) began her illustrious career in Montreal. She received her B.A. and M.Sc. degrees from McGill and, in 1921, went to Cambridge, where she studied Physics under Sir Arthur Eddington. (Many years later, she wrote his biography.) She then returned to McGill, where she lectured in Physics and Astrophysics and earned her Ph.D. in 1925. In 1939, she was appointed Dean of Women at Queen’s University, a position she held for twenty years. For much of this time, and until 1963, Dr. Douglas was also Professor of Astronomy at Queen’s and published many papers in international scientific journals and general periodicals.”
–  RASC Looking Up, Peter Broughton

4200 Sherbrooke
Stonehurst Apartments – 1929
“Stonehurst-Stonehenge… An attempt has been made on this site to supply the City of Westmount with the last word in apartment house service, catering to discriminating tenants… embodying every modern convenience: spacious entrance foyer; automatic Otis-Fensom elevator; reception rooms; real open fireplaces; oak floors throughout; tiled bathrooms; showers; aerial connections; kitchens with linoleum floors, Frigidaire, electric stoves; ironing boards, pantries; garage accommodation in the basement…”
– Montreal Gazette, April 15, 1929

Mrs. C. A. Van Scoy – 1933
“…daughter of the late J. Hervey Nichols, at one time a business associate of Andrew Carnegie… and a joint owner of the Western Union Telegraph Company in its early days… Hervey Nichols was the cipher operator for every commander-in-chief o the Union armies during the American Civil War; and it was while serving in that capacity for General Grant that he pressed the telegraph key signaling the surrender of Lee in the final battle of the war, at Appomattox…”
– Montreal Gazette, October 1933

4201 Sherbrooke
J. M. Elder, physician – 1899
“Dr. Elder was a surgeon trained at McGill University; he received his C.M. in 1886. He was born in Huntingdon, QC, in 1859 and in his youth, was an excellent athlete, especially in football. He married Miss Grace Whitehead Hendrie in 1886. He successfully practised medicine thereafter in Montreal as a surgeon at the Montreal General Hospital, as a professor of surgery at McGill University, and as Surgeon-Major with the 2nd Regiment of the Canadian Artillery (long service decoration, 1907).
This row house on a corner site is to be compared to that of George W. Cook Esq. (60), built in 1895 on Sherbrooke at Elm Street (now demolished). Dr. Elder’s house was probably designed around the same time; the drawing conventions, plan similarities, and general design philosophy make them comparable. The Elder house, however, features an office and a waiting room at the front of the ground floor, most probably the owner’s medical offices, with a separate entrance on Sherbrooke Street.”

“The private entrance hall in axis with the Mount Pleasant side entrance features a seat nestled within the curved main stair. The dining room and kitchen are to the rear. Upstairs, above the offices to the front, a full-width drawing room is lit by a semicircular oriel window, while the main chambers overlook the rear. The attic floor features three more chambers, a maid’s room, a bathroom and a sewing room. The elevations reveal a playful rendition of Dutch urban houses with their stepped gables. One is centrally placed on the Sherbrooke front elevation, and two are found on either side of the entrance on Mount Pleasant Avenue.”
– Canadian Center for Architecture

Stonehenge Apartments

4200 Sherbrooke
Stonehenge Apartments – 1929
John B. Larkin, President, Federal Paper Company Limited and Vice-President Kilgour’s Limited – 1950

4278 Sherbrooke
St. Angelo Apartments – 1928
Joseph Dyson, superintendent, Northern Electric Company – 1950

4282 Sherbrooke
C. W. Dean, accountant, Bank of Montreal – 1899
Destroyed by fire – 1914

4286 Sherbrooke
E. C. Pratt, accountant, Molsons Bank – 1899
Destroyed by fire – 1914

4287 Sherbrooke
Civic number changed to “1 Grove Park” – 1952

4290 Sherbrooke
J. S. Brierley, manager, Herald Publishing Company – 1899
Publishers of the Montreal Herald (1811-1957)

4324 Sherbrooke
Redfern Apartments – 1926
Charles Alfred Abraham, manager, advertising sales, Southam Newspapers. Previously, General Manager, Vancouver Sun – 1935

4326 Sherbrooke
Dr. John A. Hutchinson, Westmount Medical Officer of Health – 1930

4328 Sherbrooke
Margaret Jones, Executive Secretary, Catholic Women’s League of Canada – 1935

4350 Sherbrooke
Wiggs, Walford, Frost and Lindsay, consulting engineers – 1956
The firm is noted for its enlargement of Eaton’s at 677 Saint Catherine Street.
J. Edgar Dion, consulting engineer – 1959
The Imperial West Apartments – 1962
The building once housed a sculpture by Canadian Gord Smith. Amongst his commissioned works was Land of Canada placed at the centre of the Canadian Government Pavilion during Expo 1967.

“Jury” by Gord Smith (1968) • Image: Ben MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Visitor Centre and Museum at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada in Baddeck, Cape Breton • Image: Creative Commons

4439 Sherbrooke
John Eddy & Sons, florists – 1899

4444 Sherbrooke
Hugh W. Blachford, architect – 1960
Amongst the firms’ designs were the Centennial Centre at Macdonald College (1967) and a museum at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site.

The Summit, apartment building – 1965

Bell Telephone Company – Westmount Exchange (1899)

4450 Sherbrooke
Bell Telephone Company, Westmount Exchange – 1899
Headquarters, No. 115 (Fighter) Squadron N.P.A.A.F., Royal Canadian Air Force (1937). An indoor rifle range was installed in 1938.
Thomas Moore Institute for Adult Education – 1976

4458 Sherbrooke
S. A. A. Watt, Guardian Insurance Company – 1899

4485 Sherbrooke
Alfred Wood, President and Editor, Sherbrooke Daily Record, “The Paper of the Eastern Townships Since 1897” – 1935

4486 Sherbrooke
W. Stewart, Canada Atlantic Railway – 1899

4488 Sherbrooke
W. D. Brander, manager, Colin McArthur & Company, wallpaper manufacturers – 1899
Maurice P. Shea – 1944
Grandson of the last veteran of the Battle of Waterloo, who (June 1815) bore the same name and died fifty years prior at the age of ninety-nine.

4489 Sherbrooke
Halkett Woods Chapter, I.O.D.E. – 1937
Property converted into a two-family dwelling – 1943

Waterloo Medal • Image: Public Domain

4490 Sherbrooke
M. Rubenstein, Royal Electric Company – 1899
The Royal Electric Company merged with the Montreal Gas Company in 1901, forming The Montreal Light, Heat and Power Company. The latter existed until 1944, when it was nationalized by the Quebec government, forming today’s Hydro-Québec.

4493 Sherbrooke

Betts Beaudoin Cash, architects – 1969
The firm renovated the Frosst Building for Dawson College. At that time, the college was located on the south-east corner of Selby Street and Hallowell Avenue.

4545 Sherbrooke
Former home of May Cutler, first female Mayor of Westmount (1987-1991)

4545 Sherbrooke

4555 Sherbrooke
William Couper, Canadian branch manager, Erskine, Beveridge and Company – 1937

“Erskine Beveridge was a textile manufacturer and antiquarian, noted for his archaeological investigations in the Hebrides. Born in Dunfermline, the eldest son of the most significant linen manufacturer in the town, Beveridge was educated at the Abbey School there, the Edinburgh Institution (which became Stewart’s Melville College), and the University of Edinburgh. He took over his father’s business, manufacturing household textiles, and expanded it to reach a global market, with warehouses in London, Manchester, Montreal and New York, and agents as far afield as Australia, Argentina, Egypt and South Africa. At one stage, more than 1200 people were employed at the company’s mill on St. Leonards Street in Dunfermline, which is now converted to domestic use as Erskine Beveridge Court.”
– The Gazetteer for Scotland

Nash Lafayette (1940) • Image: Volvo Auto Museum

4557 Sherbrooke
Ambassador Apartments – 1937

Leonard G. Calder, manager, Bird-Archer Company – 1943

“Born in Columbia, Tennessee… Mr. Calder entered the service of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1891 as an engineer. He drove the first colonial train into Saskatoon, then a hamlet of 113 people… (he) was for 22 years sheriff of Saskatoon, a post he held from the time of the organization of the Saskatoon Judicial District until he resigned in 1929 to come to Montreal…”
– Montreal Gazette, June 1943

4631 Sherbrooke

Joseph Boule, President, Nash-LaFayette Automobile Limited – 1943

4585 Sherbrooke
Westmount YMCA and Women’s Volunteer Reserve Corps – 1940

4631 Sherbrooke
Woods and Acres, architects – 1959
The firm designed several religious buildings: Richelieu-Valley United Church, Mount Bruno United Church, Chomedey Baptist Church and the Beaurepaire United Church.

4635 Sherbrooke
Cushing, Rennie & Smith, Chartered accountants – 1962
John Todd, notarial office – 1993

Beaurepaire United Church, Beaconsfield, QC • Image: Merging Waters Pastoral Change

4643 Sherbrooke
R. McArthur Smith, piano studio – 1928
Abbey Apartments – 1929
Mahoney & Leblanc, industrial psychologists – 1970

4646 Sherbrooke
Manoir Westmount Inc.

4652 Sherbrooke
The Cecil Apartments – 1928
Jacques Cartier Chapter of the I.O.D.E. – 1930
Basement rooms rented by the Civilian Protection Committee – 1941
Acorn Club, meetings for United Kingdom war wives – 1945

Dominion Steel and Coal ad (1941)

4656 Sherbrooke
William A. Doig, Assistant Secretary, Dominion Steel and Coal Corporation – 1946

4769 Sherbrooke

4769 Sherbrooke
Former residence of W. L. Barlow, M.D., lecturer in Surgery and Clinical Surgery, McGill University – 1930

4771 Sherbrooke
Dr. Crutchlow – 1919
“Dr. and Mrs. Crutchlow and family have closed their country house in Valois and have resumed residence at 4771 Sherbrooke Street, Westmount.”
– Montreal Gazette, October 1919

4775 Sherbrooke
Joseph Willcocks, accountant, Globe Indemnity Company of Canada – 1930

4779 Sherbrooke
Albert’s Drug Store – 1930

4783 Sherbrooke
Westmount Grocery – 1930

4785 Sherbrooke
Spatches Restaurant – 1985

4820 Sherbrooke
Clements’ Food Market – 1959
I remember their delivery staff wearing caps and uniforms.

4820-4822-4824 Sherbrooke

A&P ad

4822 Sherbrooke
Victor’s Handy Store – 1930
Macy’s Drug Store, damaged that year by a fire in the store’s refrigeration plant – 1935

4823 Sherbrooke
Nachshen, Krantz, Hopmeyer & Rubinovich, chartered accountants – 1968
Adler School of Psychology – 1998

4824 Sherbrooke
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co Ltd, known today as A&P – 1930

4825 Sherbrooke
Crown Trust Company – 1971
Gascogne, pastry shop, closed 2018 – 1996

“Founded in 1957 by Francis Cabanes and his wife, Lucie, who emigrated from France in 1952, Gascogne was Montreal’s eminent pastry shop whose reputation was well known in international circles. In fact, you’d be hard pressed to find a pastry shop with as stellar a reputation in Canada, or arguably North America.”
– Lesley Chesterman, Montreal Gazette, January 6, 2018

4833 Sherbrooke
Steinberg’s Wholesale Groceterias – 1939

4839-43 Sherbrooke
United Cigar Stores – 1940

4845 Sherbrooke
Royal Bank Building
The Royal Bank of Canada (now named RBC) at Sherbrooke Street, Victoria. Built in 1907 and designed by Howard P. Stone. The building has gone through (at least) 3 alterations. The uppermost floor was originally a residence for the bank’s director.

4843-4845-4847 Sherbrooke

4846 Sherbrooke
A. A. Perry & Company, grocers – 1899

Laura Secord candy box

4847 Sherbrooke
Laura Secord Candy Shop – 1930

4848 Sherbrooke
E. H. Lawson, drug store – 1899

4850 Sherbrooke
John Musgrave, fruit store – 1899

4852 Sherbrooke
Charlie Kee, laundry service – 1899

4855 Sherbrooke

4853-55 Sherbrooke
Macy’s Drug Store – 1944

4855 Sherbrooke
“Stop & Shop” store, specialty food shop catering to the carriage trade – 1930
Wu Lin Restaurant – 1978

4857 Sherbrooke
Joseph Armstrong, boot and shoe store – 1899
Hand & Parker, coal dealers – 1926

4858-4860 Sherbrooke

4858 Sherbrooke
Ideal Book Store – 1930

4859 Sherbrooke
Charles Campbell, manager, Montreal Loan & Brokerage – 1899
Blue Bird Shop, gift shop – 1920

4860 Sherbrooke
Hand and Parker, coal Suppliers – 1930
Philbin M Hardware Co Registered – 1930
“ ‘ Philbin’s Window in the Heart of Montreal’s Broadway’. Thousands will recognize Philbin’s window, wherein are displayed the many interesting and varied articles to be found in a first-class hardware establishment. In fact ‘everything you want and when you want it’ would be the right motto for this typical up-to-the-minute Hardware establishment.”
– The Standard, May 6, 1915
Furniture store – 1978

4863 Sherbrooke
National Food Shops – 1950

4869 Sherbrooke
Hannah & Son, grocers – 1899

Canadian Women’s Volunteer Reserve Corps pin

4870 Sherbrooke
Guliver’s, children’s store – 1980

4869 Sherbrooke
Shoe Craft Ltd., Fiction Inn Reg’d and Westmount Tailor – 1930

4870 Sherbrooke
The Canadian Auxiliary Service Corps – 1942

4880 Sherbrooke
Property owned by McGill University – 1930

4872 Sherbrooke
The Devonian Society of Montreal – 1928

4873 Sherbrooke
The Piggly Wiggly Store, a grocer’s damaged by fire in 1929 – 1922

4875a Sherbrooke
Harte’s Pharmacy, damaged by fire in 1929

4876 Sherbrooke
William Sclater, Sclater Asbestos Company – 1911

4878 Sherbrooke
Dr. J. B. McConnell – 1917
His daughter, F. Muriel McConnell, served as a nursing sister in the American Women’s War Hospital in Devonshire during World War I.

Women of Canada cover • Image: University of Alberta Libraries

4883 Sherbrooke
Publication House Women of Canada – 1928.
“…a volume of the biographical sketches of leading women of all provinces of Canada… will be limited to 500 copies, printed on paper of high quality and bound in gold-stamped red leather…”
– Montreal Gazette, December 1928

4885 Sherbrooke
Prince Albert Hall, reception hall – 1958

4887 Sherbrooke
The National Food Shop – 1930

4895 Sherbrooke
Victoria Post Office (Post Station “Victoria”) – closed 2013

4896 Sherbrooke
Herman Brothers Limited, an antique shop damaged by fire in 1943
Melody House, television sales – 1953

4897 Sherbrooke
Charles J. Hill, florists – 1921

Victoria Post Office

4899 Sherbrooke
Edward Charles Eley, master-car builder, Canadian Pacific Railway – 1936

4903 Sherbrooke
Yervant’s Oriental Rugs – 1939

4908 Sherbrooke
Alex Davidson, family grocers – 1919

4912 Sherbrooke 
Norma Darling, studio for dance and dramatic classes – 1934
Mlle Juliette Annex Shop, fashion merchandise at markdown prices – 1961

4914 Sherbrooke

“Mrs. Colin E. Ross… held her bridal reception yesterday afternoon at her home, 4914 Sherbrooke Street West, where she was assisted in receiving by her mother, Mrs. James Currie. The bride wore a lovely gown of hand-embroidered white charmeuse satin, while Mrs. Currie was gowned in silver grey crepe de metior with a corsage bouquet of mauve sweet peas. In the tea-room… the table was arranged with a basket of Ophelia roses…”
– Montreal Gazette, April 19, 1917

Art Ross, defenseman of the Montreal Wanderers, 1907-1918 • Image: Public Domain

Her husband, Dr. Colin Ross, was the brother of Arthur Ross, a well-known hockey player.

“Art Ross designed his own brand of hockey equipment (including skates, sticks and uniforms) that he sold from his sporting goods store in Montréal during the early 1900s. He also introduced a new design for goalie nets in 1927–28 that helped prevent pucks from bouncing out, thereby reducing the number of disputed goals. (The NHL used the Art Ross net through the 1983–84 season.) He also created a better puck with bevelled edges, which was first used by the NHL in 1918–19. In 1940, the Art Ross puck was patented. It was used exclusively as the official puck of the NHL from 1942 until 1968.”

“Today, Art Ross is best known for the Art Ross Trophy, which he and his sons, Arthur and John, donated to the NHL in 1948. Since the 1947–48 season, the Art Ross Trophy has been presented to the NHL’s leading scorer. Ross was a governor of the Hockey Hall of Fame when the first inductions were made in 1945, and though he is often listed as being one of the original inductees, he was not actually elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame until 1949.”
– The Canadian Encyclopedia

Graham Business College – 1963

4915 Sherbrooke
Lil Martin’s Restaurant

4916 Sherbrooke
Frank G. Mingay, statistician, Operating Dept., Canadian Pacific Railway – 1925

4918 Sherbrooke
Flowers & Green Decorations Registered – 1968

4921 Sherbrooke

4919 Sherbrooke
Doyle Brothers, gift Shop – 1946

4920 Sherbrooke
Juliette Hat Shop – 1952

4921 Sherbrooke
Seville Apartments
Dr. A. Hamilton Newman, former head of the Canadian military medical board in England – 1943

4926 Sherbrooke
Arthur Chesmer Furniture Repairs – 1981

National Institute of Broadcasting promo

4927 Sherbrooke
The National Institute of Broadcasting, television/radio broadcasting school – 1969

4928 Sherbrooke
Montreal Water and Power Building – 1915

4930 Sherbrooke
Walter J. Cross, footwear for children – 1961

4934 Sherbrooke
George A. Pratt – 1924

“…born at Belfast, Ireland… for 14 years he was deputy warden at St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary… He resigned from his duties at the penitentiary to become sales manager for the James Robertson Company.”
– Montreal Gazette, July 1924

St. Vincent de Paul penitentiary

4935 Sherbrooke
Westmount International Travel Service – 1963

4972 Sherbrooke
Walter Chatfield, grocery store – 1936

“The most serious accident… when a motorman and four passengers were injured when a one-man street car… got beyond control as it was travelling south on Claremont Avenue… jumped the rails at the turn on Sherbrooke street, and crashed into a window of a grocery store at the south-east corner of the intersection.”
– Montreal Gazette, January 1936

Murray’s matchbook

Sarah Clothes – 1984
L’Occitane – 2004
Presented the Montreal Architectural Heritage award in 2004.

5011 Sherbrooke
Murray’s Restaurant – 1989
Les Immeubles Zurich Inc.

5036 Sherbrooke
Canadian Women’s Army Corps, recruiting station – 1943

Feature image: Andrew Burlone
Other images: Michael Walsh, unless indicated otherwise

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