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Member Since: January 2007 Posts: 7,623 Send Message	mgnv	Report	9 Sep 2018 16:58
	Using the Montreal city directory at: http://bibnum2.bnquebec.ca/bna/lovell/ The 1943 edn JAMES Frank emp CPR 4835 Verdun av (V [i.e., Verdun]) Between 3rd & 4th - no other earners listed in house The 1953 edn JAMES Mrs E wid F [i.e., Frank] 5545 Champagneur av In the 1930s, my dad used to visit his uncle and cousins in Verdun. The suburb of Vedun is on a long sliver of an island seperated from the main island of Montreal by the Verdun canal. This was built in the 19th cent to bypass a shelf that runs across the St Lawrence. When the conditions are right, it is possible to surfboard in the standing wave created by the shelf, but of course, you don't go anywhere. The longest surfboard ride I ever saw was abt 50 km on the Severn bore. It was quite dangerous as the bore picks up a lot of flotsam, so the guy was riding amid logs, branches, broken door frames, etc.