History / Histoire
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Photo du jour: Downtown death defiance
Kristian Gravenor of Coolopolis found this old newspaper photo of a stunt performed high above Stanley Street. Here’s the full scoop: August 5...
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La maison Redpath
Située sur l’avenue du Musée, cette demeure de style Queen Anne fut construite en 1886 pour John Redpath, un riche industriel et fondateur de la...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
When Chinatown was a Jewish neighbourhood
Did you know that today’s Chinatown was once Jewish? From 1890 to 1920, thousands of Yiddish-speaking Jews came to Montreal from Eastern Europe and...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Time to bring back trolleybuses?
Before there were bio-buses, there were electric trolleybuses. In 1953, when the above photo was taken at the corner of St. Laurent and Van Horne, many of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
L’Université de Montréal vers 1975
Photo par Jean-Pierre Sam, prise vers 1975 d’une tour d’habitation du Chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges. Le Pavillon Maximilien-Caron se trouve Ã...
By Cédric Sam -
Another photo flashback: Montreal in the 1980s
I had completely forgotten about John Allison’s great photos of Montreal in the early 1980s (in both colour and black-and-white) until Kate...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Remembering the Mount Royal Funicular
Just 90 years ago (it seems like yesterday!), you would have been able to transport yourself from the corner of Park and Duluth to the top of the mountain...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Patrimoine menacé
Photographie prise en 2006 En 1986, cette maison fut présentée comme suit dans un livre sur l’architecture rurale, publié par le répertoire...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
La crise du verglas de 1998
Le grand verglas de 1998, par François Rodrigue de Blog Story Il y a dix ans, au retour des Fêtes, une dépression venant du Golfe du Mexique remontait les...
By Cédric Sam -
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.
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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...
By Christopher DeWolf