Yearly Archives: 2008
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Mysterious igloos appear on Mount Royal
The Journal de Montréal reported yesterday that two igloos have appeared on Mount Royal, one near Park Avenue and the other further west, near Beaver...
By Christopher DeWolf -
La crise du verglas de 1998
Le grand verglas de 1998, par François Rodrigue de Blog Story Il y a dix ans, au retour des Fêtes, une dépression venant du Golfe du Mexique remontait les...
By Cédric Sam -
Photo du jour: Verdun Annex
Advertisement, from the late 1900s or early 1910s, for new real estate development in Verdun. Found in the BANQ’s Massicotte Albums.
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : les ponts de Montréal
Pont Victoria à l’avant-plan, et Jacques-Cartier à l’arrière-plan. Photo prise à partir du pont Champlain, le 25 décembre 2007.
By Cédric Sam -
Photo du jour : métro Verdun
Photo prise au Métro Verdun, le 22 décembre 2007.
By Cédric Sam -
Visionary architecture at the Cinéma du Parc
WHAT? Visionary Architecture: Great Expectations & Kochuu and Moshe Safdie, The Power Of Architecture, three films on architecture WHEN? 7pm and 9pm...
By Christopher DeWolf -
A condo tower done right
A certain segment of the population seems hard-wired to scoff at any mention of the word “condominium.” It’s certainly true that most...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Sauvons l’église Saint-Sauveur!
The saviour is in need of saving. One of Montreal’s last-remaining mid-nineteenth century churches, the Église Saint-Sauveur at the corner of St...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Glen Road
Glen Road is, along with Greene Avenue, one of just two links between Lower Westmount and St. Henri. Whereas the Greene Avenue connection is fairly...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s Chinatown in 1984
I almost had to twist my father’s arm to get these photos onto Flickr, but it was well worth it. Since Boxing Day, he has been busy scanning our...
By Cédric Sam -
Montreal’s lost Expo opportunity
Expo 67’s 40th anniversary has passed, but there’s one aspect of the world fair that I find strangely overlooked: its transportation system...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Tango de Montréal
[youtube]lej1kLzaIgA[/youtube] “Montreal Tango” was made last year for a National Film Board workshop by Tarek al-Nosir and two of his Dawson...
By Christopher DeWolf