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Canadian Urbanism Uncovered

By Christopher DeWolf

  • Greening Montreal’s laneways

    Montrealers across the city are taking a renewed interest in their laneways. Since many of them are too narrow to work as service corridors, their...

  • New life for Montreal’s park chalets

    Beaver Lake chalet, photo by Frédéric Saia Original 1955 plans for the chalet Earlier this year, after two years of renovation, the Beaver Lake chalet on...

  • Photo du jour: Sixties Ste. Catherine

    Ste. Catherine and Mansfield, looking west, in 1961

  • Montreal’s postwar neighbourhoods

    Jean Talon Street in Saint Michel For all of its historic neighbourhoods, Montreal is really a postwar city. In the twenty years after 1941, the number of...

  • GST cut gives the city a $500,000 windfall

    Canada’s GST will be cut by one more percent on Tuesday, bringing the national sales tax down to 5%. Rather than bringing down the price of its...

  • Griffintown’s citizen activists

    This weekend in the Gazette, Steve Faguy spoke to a handful of the citizen activists who are casting a critical eye on the Griffintown redevelopment...

  • Photo du jour: הצלה

    Hatzoloh is a volunteer EMS organization that functions in Orthodox Jewish communities around the world, including the west end of Montreal and Kiryas...

  • Montreal in the snow… in February 1972

    Peel Street looking north from Sherbrooke It must be end-of-year nostalgia: after Mike Gericke’s photos of Montreal in 1987, I can’t help but...

  • Je fais mon Steinberg

    It’s hard to overstate the importance the Steinberg family played in the postwar development of Montreal. Their grocery store chain single-handedly...

  • Photo du jour: Mutilated in Mile End

    In this before-and-after shot we can see the evolution (some would say devolution) of the Park Avenue retail strip between Bernard and St. Viateur. In the...

  • Walking Montreal’s streets in 1987

    As much as I like photos of Montreal from 100 years ago, it’s shots from more recent decades that really pique my interest. Luckily, Flickr has...

  • Jack Dylan makes Montreal look good

    Last fall, you might have noticed a spate of Pop Montreal concert posters plastered on hydro poles, lampposts, mailboxes and traffic control boxes around...