Allan Oakley's Trip to Montreal
August 2004

-Nanny and Albert's house at 108 Royal Park in Deux Montagnes

-Nanny and Albert

-Barry and Gaston

-Robyn, Frank, Alex and Samantha

-Nanny Oakley, Robyn and Beryl Erno

-Faye, Samantha and Hillary

-Allan, Nanny and Barry

-Alex, Kevin, Justin and Samantha

-Nanny and Albert and the St. Eustache farmers market

-Auntie Germaine's house on De Lachapelle Ave in Deux Montagnes

-Allan's first house on 27th Ave

-You can still see where the weeping willow
used to be on the front lawn

-Allan's favorite rock in the front yard
-Imagined this to be a mountain or even an island when I was 6 years old

-3150 30th Ave in Laval West
- Allan's second home

-Doctor Villeneuve's house across the street

-The Mercier house at the corner of the street

- I thought these people were really rich when
in fact they owned a well digging company

-The first Catholic school

-Granny Oakley and my father's house on 5th avenue

-Mums house on 1st avenue

-The big hill on 7th avenue

-I was terrified at the size of this hill. It ended up down at the small beach but
I always imagined my bicycle brakes would fail and I'd crash in to a car.

Plage (Beach) Laval. At one time this was a resort beach and people from Montreal flocked here every weekend. It was home to the Miss Laval and Chez Roger restaurant along with several beach houses and a very large boarding house for weekend guests.

-The beach actually was along Riviera Mille Isles that headed
East towards the St. Lawrence river from Deux Montagnes

-At the beach there were the Pedalo rentals. Pedal boats
were very popular and cost 75 cents per hour

The only source of pollution for our beach was Riviere Chene in St. Eustache. This small river from the downtown was actually a storm sewer drainage river and for many years it polluted the entire area.

-The Historic Catholic Church in St. Eustache

Behind the church is where back in the 1700's the British defeated the French. Across the river was Laval West's third major beach named Saratoga. One time a large dance hall and beach bar and also the location of the original bridge across the river. Today, luxury condominiums are located there.