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WESTMOUNT / MONTREAL

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Remembering Marc Garneau, Canada’s first astronaut & dedicated public servant, who passed at 76. His legacy in space & politics inspires us all.

Marc Garneau, Canada’s First Astronaut Dies at 76

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Update regarding my stolen guitar.

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Bibliothèque Westmount

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Delaware & Hudson Alco PA-1s -- 4 Photos by Marty Bernard Via Flickr: D&H PA-1 18 in CP Glenn Yard, Westmount, Que. Observation dome Algonquin Park at left on March 22, 1970. This is Doyle McCormack's PA-1. Roger Puta's photograph.

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Westmount, 2022

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“Startled Sleeper Applauds Sermon,” Kingston Whig-Standard. January 11, 1932. Page 03.  ---- Embarrassed Churchman Apologizes to Preacher for Hand-clapping ---- MONTREAL — Genevieve Lipsett Skinner, writing in the Montreal Dally Star, describes the only known cut of applause in church In local annals. 

Rev. Father Hogan of Ste. Anne's, preaching In the Church of the Ascension of Our Lord, in Westmount one morning recently, the writer says, ended his sermon with a dramatic peroration. As his voice died away, a vigorous round of applause came from a man occupying a pew in the rear of the church. The congregation was startled first then amused at tha unusual occurrence.

Later In the morning, the man who applauded explained to the parish priest that he had fallen asleep during the sermon and had begun to waken during the peroration of the preacher. In the first glimmer of returning consciousness, he thought he was in a theatre and Impressed by the concluding remarks of the preacher, he felt his approbation could only be expressed by applause. When he realized that his was the only hand-clapping indulged in he became fully awake. There he was, in the Church of the Ascension and extremely embarrassed. 

Not that the man in this case was the first who ever dozed during a good sermon. The Incident reminded some of the old-timers of an incident attributed to Rev. Father McShane which was alleged to have occurred during the depression that followed the war. Father McShane is said to have announced that during the hard times then prevailing, the homeless would find St. Patrick’s Church always open, and  they could sleep there If they wished to do so  - ‘Sundays, excepted, of course,"  the priest added "for on that day the pews are reserved for our regular sleepers."