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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

  • Once upon a time, St. Louis Square had a basin

    St. Louis Square, often known as Carré St-Louis (though this is, to the surprise of many, actually an anglicism), is one of Montreal’s greatest...

  • Increased metro, bus service tomorrow

    Metro trains will come more often on the orange, green and blue lines starting tomorrow. The headway between trains will be reduced by about two minutes...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Montreal’s suburban villages: Sainte Anne de Bellevue

    Compact, walkable and attractive, Ste. Anne de Bellevue is one of the nicest old towns in suburban Montreal. It’s also about as far west as you can...

  • Photo du jour : Tramway d’hiver

    Horse-drawn tram on Ste. Catherine Street near Greene Avenue, 1877