Old News

Five Years Ago

November 1, 2001

SUPPORT FOR TREMBLAY: "If a picture is worth a thousand words, the photo of Westmount Mayor Peter Trent shaking hands with megacity mayoral candidate Gérald Tremblay would say it all. Trent was at the opening last Wednesday evening of the Montreal Island Citizens’ Union’s Westmount campaign headquarters. Introduced as 'the future mayor of Montreal,' Tremblay was greeted at the Sherbooke Street West locale by a standing room crowd of Westmount supporters, including Rosemount Avenue resident David Nicholson, Gisèle Bonnardeaux of Oakland Avenue, former city councillor Peter Duffield and Louise Hagar, who is running the office. Although Tremblay has no candidates running in Westmount, the three city councillors running as independents (of which John de Castell has already been acclaimed) are backing him for mayor, saying that Tremblay is the only logical alternative to voting for Pierre Bourque. None of the independents was at the Team Tremblay office, although Karin Marks, according to Tremblay, was out campaigning door-to-door in Westmount at the time."



Fifteen Years Ago

October 31, 1991

ENDORSING CANDIDATES: “With only three days left until Sunday’s election, ‘non-partisan’ Westmount politics appears rife with party-like intrigue. Mayor May Cutler issued a press release Monday listing six candidates she endorses, to counter a newsletter distributed to households last week by the Westmount Finance Action Committee which endorsed five others. Outgoing Westmount councillors are lining up behind the mayor’s list of chosen candidates except for one or two differences. But the man who will be mayor was, by his own admission, ‘busy agonizing’ at press time yesterday over how much of a role he should play in supporting certain people. ‘I have a letter all ready to go to support one candidate and I haven’t decided whether or not to send it,’ said mayor-elect Peter Trent.�



Twenty-Five Years Ago

October 29, 1981

CAR BOMB: “Tuesday’s underworld bombing of a car in Westmount which killed one local resident and injured another man is not expected to result in a gangland war, according to police who continue to probe into the details of the explosion. The two men were riding south on Melville avenue at de Maisonneuve boulevard at about 12:45 p.m. when their borrowed Mercedes Benz 280-SE was torn apart by a powerful blast heard and felt by Westmounters several blocks away in what police are calling ‘a settling of underworld accounts’�



Forty-Five Years Ago

November 3, 1961

READER’S DIGEST OPENS: “On behalf of the people of Westmount, Mayor J.C. Cushing welcomed the Reader’s Digest to the community Tuesday, when he was the guest of honour at the opening of the new $2,000,000 headquarters on Redfern avenue at St. Catherine street. E. Paul Zimmerman, President of the Reader’s Digest Association (Canada) Ltd. introduced the man and woman who founded the Digest in 1922—DeWitt Wallace, and his Manitoba-born wife Lila Acheson Wallace.�