Upon arriving to the Lachine canal via Ville st Henri this is the scene that greets you... a jut of land where people recline and enjoy the sun, with old industrial structures in the background. The main building is where the old paper makers, st Armand, used to be... I visited them once before they moved and learned a bit about paper making and bought a pile of their watercolour paper. On the top right you see the iconic rusty old water tower, underneath there is a hipster brew pup restaurant. It was a pretty good day today, breezy and just a little smoggy.
Canal ripples, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
All along st Patrick there are still warehouses and light industrial although if you look closely a lot of them have been converted into other business ventures like a climbing-wall complex, and a brew pub. I stopped here to make a painting just because I liked the colour of the graffiti, it was a nice cyan surrounded by violet-magenta. Plus, these buildings have a way of getting gentrified into condos, or something else, I could see this one becoming a spa or nail shop one day.
Warehouse st Patrick, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
Crossing over to isle st Helen you ride under the highway then past the Canada Maltage factory which is still actively making malt, likely for beer. This massive 5 story-high vat was prominent between two of the big silo structures. I have no idea what it is, but a good guess might be some sort of receptacle for when they clean the silos, like a toilette basically. Who know, I just call it the malt thing.
The malt thing, watercolour 6 x 7.5" cold press, June 2025
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