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The essence of Westmount:
the park with its public buildings, the
elegant residences that line the adjacent
streets, and the large apartment houses
of Sherbrooke Street West.
Zone B
Around Westmount Park
Traversed by the various
branches of the Glen stream (the bed
of the stream is still evident around
Lansdowne Avenue and St. Catherine
Street), this second zone was
developed at the end of the 19th
Century. The presence of a cluster of
industrial buildings in the south-west,
and the construction in 1896 of the first
railway station on Abbott Avenue
followed by a second station at the foot
of Victoria Avenue, soon attracted
developers who built row housing for a
clientele of more modest means. To
serve them, merchants set up shop
along the streetcar routes of St.
Catherine and Sherbrooke Streets and
Victoria and Greene Avenues.
During the same period, the
municipal authorities finally settled the
Glen stream drainage problem by
creating Westmount Park, a celebration
of Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The valueof
the surrounding lots soon rose, and
luxurious semi-detached cottages were
built along them in short order.
There are three clusters of
heritage buildings in this zone:
the first near the old station from
Blenheim Place to Abbott Avenue south
of St. Catherine Street, consisting of row
cottages built by developers Blenheim,
Lewis and Irving around 1895;
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ERRATA
Reference numbers on the map
Number 3 should be deleted.
Numbers 4 to 12 should be replaced
by numbers 3 to11.