my parents' neighborhood

My parents live in the west end. It was referred to as the Goulais Avenue area, because back then Goulais was the western limit. Today there is the old part, east of Goulais, where my parents live and the new part, west of Goulais where there is all new housing. The new developments have kept this working class community alive and stable. Where other working class areas have been torn down and replaced by new road construction, the west end has kept its families and churches. The oldest part of the city and it's first working class and immigrant neighborhood - James Street - has been urban-renewed and destroyed for a service road to the International Bridge. (The politicians want to make the Soo into a transportation hub for truck traffic between the US and Northern Canada.)

The main street through the west end is no longer Goulais, but Wallace Terrace. And the images on this page were all shot on Wallace Terrace. (It's OK to use Goulais but not OK to use Wallace.) Sunday morning the sun was blazing and the neighborhood was covered in new snow. My first attempt at capturing this was to shoot the sun through the mill steam-clouds. I wasn't successful at capturing the disk in the billows, so I kept to the landscapes.
(The thumbnail points to the large image.)