Schukov: The ghosts of back alleys

Some stretches of Lachine are arguably the closest thing the West Island can claim as its borderline Old Montreal. The West Island has some stone farmhouses that back into centuries but they are too sparse and scattered, and would need to all be wheeled into one spot to qualify as an old sector.
One history pedestrian’s way of drawing the border between what we today call the West Island and the ROM (Rest of Montreal) is where builders stopped putting in back alleys between blocks of attac