I was hooked on photography in 1957, when I was given a camera for my 12th birthday.In 1970, two years after becoming a historical museum curator in Old Montreal, I started to collect 19th and 20th century photographs. Amateur snapshots appealed to me because some were surprisingly original. The photographs I selected from my collection are a mix: ones by ‘anonymous’, by my parents and a few by me. They are part of a project I plan to self publish entitled “Snapshots from Montreal.” — a concise history of local amateur photography.