Downtown parking remains a hot issue. As for enforcement of no-parking regulations these days, it's far from slack.
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Our History Through Our Eyes feature showcases photographs from the Montreal Gazette archives that provide insights into our city’s history.
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“DÉFENSE DE STATIONNER/ NO PARKING,” reads the sign next to a row of cars parked on Ste-Catherine St. in this photo from our archives, dated Jan. 10, 1942.
The vantage point appears to be looking westward from in front of the Dominion Square Building, located just east of Peel St.
It’s clear from the cars and streetcars, not to mention the bilingual signs and cigarette ads, that this snapshot is from another era.
There might have been a news-related reason this photo was taken. At the time, the annual meeting of the Royal Automobile Club of Canada was underway and the Montreal Gazette’s Jan. 10, 1942 edition carried a long article about it. Parking in the downtown business area was among the club’s concerns, though seemingly a much smaller one than bridge tolls. These the club vociferously opposed.
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Downtown parking also figured in some other stories around that time.
On Feb. 27, 1942, a Gazette story suggested that if the city did more to limit parking on busy streets, streetcars would be able to speed up, increasing their efficiency.
And a March 7, 1942 story noted that the report of a special committee appointed by the Junior Board of Trade on “Montreal’s Transit Problems and Their Relation to Canada’s War Effort” called for “enforcement of by-laws providing for no parking on certain streets and no stopping to unload merchandise, particularly during peak hours; creation of many more off-street parking areas.”
Downtown parking remains a hot issue. As for enforcement of no-parking regulations these days, it’s far from slack.
History Through Our Eyes: Photos of People and Events that Shaped 20th Century Montreal, which compiles the original 2019 series in book form, is available online from montrealhistorybooks.com and at local bookstores. A portion of proceeds from books sold at the online address will go to the Gazette Christmas Fund.
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