My Delineator. I have no idea how to use Corel Photoshop.. which drives me crazy. But I cleaned up my Delineator. I haven’t seen this pic on the web. It’s from August 1909.
A beautiful day, and I spent a great deal of time working on Threshold Girl…as I await my new Delineator from 1911, which will have some up to date fashions…Not that the Nicholsons wore the lastest fashions… so I’m pretty safe with the 1909 patterns.
I am changing the story into the present tense, so that when I talk about a flashback, I don’t have to use past anterior, or whatever it is called in English.
Funny, I know the name of tenses for French, but not for English.
And I’m still confused about Sherbrooke Street and the streetcar. I know from a book I have bought by Aline Gubbay, A View of Their Own, that Westmount got electric street cars in 1893 and one of Sherbrooke the year later.
But I read so much about the controversy about putting in a track between Greene and Atwater, and I also found that there were two loops, north and south, and I also found some ‘instructions’ on how to get to NDG in 1910 and they don’t mention going along Sherbrooke. So I don’t know.
Wait a sec. The Gubbay book has a map with a tiny tread marks where the street car went… I guess befoe 1913, because it goes along Sherbrooke only to Greene and then along st. Catherine.. and another goes down Victoria to St. Catherine.
So, logically, the girls would take the street car right at the corner of Greene and Ste Catherine.. the two routes converge there….
I will have Edith take the UPPER Loop because the Upper LOOP is the pretty loop… and she aspires to HIGHER things. So I’ll still have the girls walk to Sherbrooke and Victoria…and then take the tram to the city. I guess I’ll have Edith drop off a library book at the Westmount Library. They’ll walk through the park. But that’s a long walk….Hmm. They did walk a lot in those days, even in their corsets..
Oh, I don’t know.
