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Aline Gubbay
Aline Gubbay was a historian, architectural photographer, author and social worker who chronicled the social and architectural history of Westmount and Montreal. Her four books include: Le Fleuve et la montagne/ The Mountain and The River (1981), Montreal's Little Mountain (1984), which she co-authored with Sally Hooff, A Street Called The Main (1989) and A View of Their Own: The Story of Westmount (1998).

During the Second World War, she took the picture of French General Charles de Gaulle, then in exile, that was used on the Free-France propaganda leaflets that were dropped in Nazi occupied France.

Her column, "Know Your Westmount" regularly appeared in the Westmount Examiner. She taught art history at the Visual Arts Centre and costume history at LaSalle College. She was also president of the Westmount Historical Society from 1996 until 2000.