Decrepit Beauty

We live a block off the Lachine Canal in Montreal's old industrial area. Now a Canadian Heritage Site, the Lachine Canal, in its heyday was one an engineering feat. The Lachine Rapids, in the St. Lawrence were too strong for freight boats, so the Canal was built as a detour into the port. With the Canal came industry and brick factories sprung up all along the banks of the canal. Today the freighters are powerful enough to make it through the rapids and the Canal is a historical site and a playground for small pleasure crafts. Also, the re-gentrification process is occurring all along the Canal as old factories are turned into upscale condos and lofts.

The pictures here are of an old factory which hasn't been re-gentrified but for some reason Steve and I both find its decrepit graffitied shell beautiful. Every time we run past it we always remark that we should come back and take pictures so yesterday, when the sun was shining and the sky crisp and blue, we did just that.