“Oh my! Can you smell the fish?”

You're standing in front of Le Waldman, a residential building, inaugurated in 2011. The name evokes the famous seafood market opened by a family of Polish origin on Roy Street, just north of the avenue, in the 1930s. After the Second World War, a wave of Portuguese immigration to the neighbourhood boosts fish sales.

In the 1980s, Waldman’s employs around a hundred people and owns a huge warehouse that stretches all the way here, to Pine Avenue. Imagine, several times a week, the smell and sight of multi-coloured shipments of fish and seafood arriving. Financial difficulties cause the fish market to close in 1992.

Design and writing credits for historical panels: Pirogue in collaboration with BCK design