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Emmeline Pankhurst and the Last English Mayor of Montreal

Dorothy Nixon wrote 2 weeks ago: Pages from my Grandfather’s Montreal City Hall File. His post, Director of Services, created i … more →

Tags: Canada, E-Books, Books, cleveland kidnappings, Edith Wharton, Emmeline Pankhurst, Gertrude Atherton, mayor of Montreal, mederic martin

Theatre, Movies, Books 100 years ago

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 month ago: Well, this ad comes from the June 1913 Montreal Witness. Chapman’s Bookstore was obviously the … more →

Tags: suffrage, Entertainment, Movies, Dorothy Nixon, Evangelicals, early theatre, early cinema, montreal, Montreal City Hall

Milk and Water and Typhoid and Me

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago:   A crate from Laurentian Spring Water in my living room. My husband got it. Someone at his wor … more →

Tags: Montreal City Hall, boiled water advisory, bottled water, Laurentian Spring Water, Montreal 1927, Montreal Civic History, typhoid

Firing or Resignation? Camillien Houde fires Jules Crepeau

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago: Mederic Martin and My Grandfather, Jules Crepeau, bookending a Seattle City Official on a trip. Mart … more →

Tags: Montreal City Hall, milk and water, Montreal Water and Power

Florida St Martin Crepeau Walter, my Aunt

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago: My Aunt Flo and Me, in 1959, from a still off a Super 8. Aunt Flo, 1940′s. I found my Aunt Flo … more →

Tags: women in 1910, Florida St Martin

Investigative Reporting, or Tabloid Journalism, 1914

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago: The Crepeaus on the beach. Couple in middle, unknown. Girl in helmet, my mother. Girl in dark suit, … more →

Tags: Montreal City Hall

Lordy Lordy: Passing the Buck over a Fatal Fire

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago: Mayor Mederic Martin and aldermen and my grandfather, Jules Crepeau, looking terribly bored.. Hmm. I … more →

Tags: Laurier Palace, Tachereau, Lord's Day Act

Jules Crepeau: Jack of all Civic Trades

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago: The Crepeaus Coloured, around 1927 Hmm. I was wrong when I said in the last (after a cursory glance … more →

Tags: milk and water, Montreal Civic History

Milk and Water and Scapegoats..

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago: Jules Crepeau, Director of City Services, Montreal Well, with the Montreal City Hall file and my aun … more →

Tags: Montreal Water and Power

Milk and Water: Montreal Water and Power Purchase

Dorothy Nixon wrote 1 year ago: Last night I downloaded and read (quickly) a number of useful documents on Montreal’s Water Su … more →

Tags: Montreal 1927, Montreal Water and Power

Milk and Water

Dorothy Nixon wrote 2 years ago: The Crepeaus.Old Orchard Beach. mid 1920′s. Terry Copp’s The Anatomy of Poverty is one o … more →

Tags: Typhoid, Laurential Spring Water

Bathing Beauties and Bathhouses for the Poor.

Dorothy Nixon wrote 2 years ago: My Aunt Alice, circa 20′s, Old Orchard Beach most likely. Aunt Alice must have seen a number o … more →

Montreal 1888 Health

Dorothy Nixon wrote 3 years ago: My Aunt Alice Hmm. I was Googling Jules Crepeau, my grandfather again and found a new document: the … more →

Tags: Montreal 19th century

WATER AND MILK

Dorothy Nixon wrote 3 years ago: Therese Forget, 1914 from McCord Museum Collection,II-203044 McCord Home Page I put this picture up … more →

Tags: Montreal 1910, Laurentian Spring Water, Montreal History, MARJORIE MAIN, Ma Kettle

The Great Disruption?

Dorothy Nixon wrote 3 years ago: My grandfather, Jules Crepeau’s, city hall ID Montreal 1929. Odd, there’s no specific Ci … more →

Tags: Montreal City Hall, Montreal History, single moms


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