History / Histoire
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La Place des Arts en 1970 et en 2008
Pour faire suite à l’article : La construction de la Place des Arts, voici un montage photo de 1970 et de 2008 représentant le site avant son...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
La construction de la Place des Arts.
Bien avant le métro de Laval et le stade olympique un projet d’envergure ayant connu des coût de construction faramineux vit le jour à Montréal il y...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Évolution d’une rue #4
Le coin des rues Sainte-Catherine et St-Laurent en 1900, 2007 et 2008. Source : Musée McCord...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
La rue Belmont
Cette rue d’a peine 400 mètres, est aujourd’hui utilisée presque uniquement par les camions de livraisons et les automobilistes en quête...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
An elegy for Griffintown
[youtube]XqxurfvV5bM[/youtube] There’s something remarkably honest about the United Steel Workers of Montreal. Far from being a contrivance, their...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Craig Street West
Craig Street West, about 1905
By Christopher DeWolf -
The songs of Montreal’s banished street vendors
Montreal did away with a big chunk of its cultural heritage when it started cracking down on street vendors in the 1960s. Food vendors were the first to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Interesting Mont-Royal roofs
One area of town that is lesser-known to many anglophones is the commercial strip along Av. du Mont-Royal E. While most tend to frequent the area around...
By Paul Erlichman -
Remember the Mountain Street viaduct
If you were around before the 1970s, you might still remember the Mountain Street viaduct, which spanned the Canadian National tracks between St. Jacques...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Le théâtre de Quat’sous n’est plus !
C’est ce matin vers 7h30 que commenca la démolition de l’édifice situé au 100 avenue des Pins occupé par le théâtre de Quat’sous. La...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
How to not screw up Montreal’s schools
Just as it prepares to invest $140 million in upgrading its schools, the Commission scolaire de Montréal, the city’s largest French school board, is...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Queen’s no more
J.D. Gravenor at Coolopolis reminded us of the Queen’s Hotel, which stood at the corner of St. Jacques and Peel until it was torn down in the 1980s...
By Christopher DeWolf