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The Heart of Verdun

Oblique black and white aerial photograph of the roads and buildings of Verdun’s most urbanized area. The streets are rectilinear and intersect at right angles.

Date: 1925

Source: Archives de la Ville de Montréal (VM97-3_01-050) 

Homes in Verdun at the beginning of the 20th century were concentrated around Wellington and De l’Église streets. Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs Church at the intersection of these two main streets, was opened in 1914.