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Category: Landscape

The Crawford Park Neighbourhood

The Crawford Park Neighbourhood

Crawford Park is without a doubt the Verdun neighbourhood where the memory of military engagement is the most apparent. Several streets have names with military associations. The First […]
Parc du Souvenir

Parc du Souvenir

Parc du Souvenir is located in front of City Hall, on Verdun Street, between Willibrord Street and 1st Avenue. Initially known as Willibrord Park and then Monument Park, […]
An Emblematic Tower

An Emblematic Tower

Here is a photograph of one of the last vestiges of the war in Verdun: the tower of the former munitions factory built in 1916 and used during […]
Veterans’ Housing

Veterans’ Housing

The photograph shows what was referred to as veterans’ housing, mostly built during the Second World War. This name was given to single-family homes that were built as […]
An Ancestral Route

An Ancestral Route

This photograph features the rural landscape of western Verdun in the early 20th century, dominated by fields, farms and wooded areas. To travel from east to west and […]
A High-flying Fundraising Campaign

A High-flying Fundraising Campaign

This photograph was taken on October 20, 1943, at Parc du Monument, today’s Parc des Madelinots, at the intersection of Wellington Street and LaSalle Boulevard. Flags and a […]