August 26, 2013 · 4:58 pm

Meet Me at Mt Royal & Drolet

Smith Corona Sterling 1947

Remington Portable 2 1926

McCormick sold this business to my father

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Tagged as carter's ink company, Drolet St, Montreal, Mt Royal Ave, Remington portable typerwriter, smith corona sterling typewriter

9 responses to “Meet Me at Mt Royal & Drolet”

Spiderwebz

August 27, 2013 at 5:37 am

Nice machines! And interesting story about Carter’s Ink. Let us know what you find out?

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- DonN
  
  August 27, 2013 at 7:52 am
  
  Will do.
  
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- Nicolas Cadieux
  
  November 14, 2019 at 5:44 pm
  
  Hi,
  Just found this post while googling for the Carter Inx company (or Carter’s ink company). Building is still in Montréal… about 100 m from my home. You can find it on Google maps at the corner of Drolet and Mont-Royal Street. A 1928 picture is found on the link below. The top 4 floors have disappeared. I am trying to figure out what happened to those floors.
  http://depot.ville.montreal.qc.ca/phototheque-archives/tiff/VM94-Z8.tif
  
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  - DonN
    
    November 14, 2019 at 7:16 pm
    
    Wow, thanks for the great photo.I love the history of Montreal. How strange to reduce the height of a building! Maybe they tore it down and put a smaller one on the same site.
  - Nicolas Cadieux
    
    November 14, 2019 at 7:45 pm
    
    My current hypothesis is a fire. The ground and first floors are Identical and probably original. The facade is really the same except for the front entry that has been receded. The sheet metal and brick have the exact same details (just like the other buildings around.) That part of the building is now a pastry but was a stationery store till 3 years ago (Guérin).
    https://goo.gl/maps/Su5GLuiDswVwpytD7
    The other 4 floors are present in the second half of the building on Drolet street. I think I am dealing with two connected buildings. That part is currently being renovated to become a hotel. Aerial photography shows the building layout had the current form in 1954 therefore changes appeared between 1928 and 1954. Both building were own and operated by Guérin Éditeur. (https://www.guerin-editeur.qc.ca/Message.aspx?msg=msg_accueil). They sold the real-estate in Montréal and moved a few year ago about 1 hour from Montréal. I am trying to figure out if Guérin purchased the building from Carter’s Ink.
Nicolas Cadieux

November 14, 2019 at 8:09 pm

Interesting link: http://ribbontinvirtualmuseum.com/carters-ink-company/
They have the Montréal address for Carter Inx as 655 Drolet Street, in Montréal. The phone number is St. Louis 6695. St. Louis is now part of the Plateau-Mont-Royal, a Montréal borough. https://histoireplateau.org/

St. Louis is actually the village of Coteau-Saint-Louis and was founded in 1846. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Plateau-Mont-Royal. and is now part of the city of Mtl. The address is now 4511 Drolet (or something like that). I figure the address changed when both cities were joined.

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- DonN
  
  November 14, 2019 at 8:17 pm
  
  Great stuff. I am going to blog about the Carters Ink page at the virtual Museum. I must admit to being fascinated with St. Louis, having grown up beside Lac St Louis on St. Louis Ave in Dorval!
  
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- Pierre Verdoni
  
  December 5, 2021 at 9:33 pm
  
  I lived at 4679 De Bullion for a few years….The address in 1925 was 1717 and in 1895 it was 129 . The older name of De Bullion was Cadieux street
  
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