History / Histoire
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Montreal in the 1950s and 60s
The NFB is about to release La mémoire des anges, a new film by Luc Bourdon about life in 1950s and 60s Montreal, created by stitching together footage...
By Christopher DeWolf -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal Ritz Carlton is modernizing
CTV reported on Monday that the Ritz-Carlton is getting a makeover! The Ritz finally got the message: it’s a little bit frumpy. The solution...
By Nithya Vijayakumar -
L’exposition « Hochelaga-Maisonneuve en trois temps » au Château Dufresne
Carte postale du boulevard Pie-IX vers 1920 (détail) Peu de gens le savent, mais 2008 marque le 125e anniversaire de l’annexation de la ville...
By Cédric Sam -
Le parc Belmont et la mort du parc d’attractions ailleurs dans le monde
Téléchargez Adieu parc Belmont! (Archives de Radio-Canada) Le site des Archives de Radio-Canada recèle de nombreux petits trésors, dont ce clip vidéo sans...
By Cédric Sam -
Photo du jour: Mountain tram
Before the construction of the voie Camillien-Houde and Remembrance Road on the mountain in the 1960s, the quickest way to get up was by tramway. For...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Ground broken for Swatow Plaza in Chinatown
I returned from a six-week trip to China some three weeks ago, and the first time since then that I ventured in our Montreal Chinatown was last week. The...
By Cédric Sam -
Montréal en quartiers
I’ve been spending part of the afternoon poking around Montréal en quartiers, known less memorably in English as Montreal InSite, a new website...
By Christopher DeWolf -
In NDG, a ghost sign is revealed
Last week, someone named BK McCabe sent me an email about an old tobacco ad that had been revealed when a fire-damaged building was torn down on...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Strolling through history
It isn’t a blog that is updated very often, but when it is, Histoire du Plateau Mont-Royal is definitely worth reading. Its latest post, an...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montage du jour : La rue Sainte-Catherine
Vers 1910-2007
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Montage du jour : La gare Windsor
Vers 1950-2008 Les maison situées en arrière plan furent démolies vers 1964 et remplacées par l’hôtel Champlain.
By Guillaume St-Jean