By Christopher DeWolf
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Photo du jour: Outremont evening
Lajoie and Querbes, June 27, 2008
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New life for the Mile End garment district
In this week’s edition of the Mirror I have an article outlining some of the issues surrounding the city’s planned redevelopment of the Mile...
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The Moving Day mess
115,000 households packed up and moved on Tuesday, making it quite possibly the single largest instance of a mass moving day in North America. Even on...
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Photo du jour: Hasidic celebration
Bernard Street in Outremont. June 27, 2008
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Photo du jour: Public art
As usual, Jeanne Mance Street is closed for the jazz fest, but this year the parking lot on its west side has been replaced by a large construction site...
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Photo du jour: Verdun Plymouth
1960s-era car, triplexes and unusual rowhouses on a sidestreet in Verdun. September 21, 2002
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Photo du jour: Happy Moving Day
Also known in some parts of the country as Canada Day. Sherbrooke and Ste. Famille, July 3, 2004
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Photo du jour: C.W.A.C.
Until the 1960s, signs and advertisements were far more loosely regulated than they are today, as you can see in this 1943 photo of Papineau and Mount...
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Street party for Spain
This morning, my friends—all of them Spain supporters, except for one, who kept quiet—decided to watch today’s Euro Cup final between...
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Photo du jour: Vacant lot sculpture garden
One of my favourite things about the area around the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks in Mile End is that they seethe with life: there’s always...
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Photo du jour: Football
Soccer in Jeanne Mance Park. June 14, 2006
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Photo du jour: Bière froide à la caisse
Dep at St. Vallier and St. Zotique, Little Italy/Petite Patrie. May 17, 2008