History / Histoire
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Montreal’s Chinatown in 1984
I almost had to twist my father’s arm to get these photos onto Flickr, but it was well worth it. Since Boxing Day, he has been busy scanning our...
By Cédric Sam -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Tramway d’hiver
Horse-drawn tram on Ste. Catherine Street near Greene Avenue, 1877
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Sixties Ste. Catherine
Ste. Catherine and Mansfield, looking west, in 1961
By Christopher DeWolf -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
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...
By Christopher DeWolf -
What we lost to the Ville-Marie Expressway
Craig looking east from near St. Urbain, 1953 While Bostonians have engaged in three decades of self-flagellation over the neighbourhoods they lost to...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Beaver Hall Hill Square
Snowbanks in Beaver Hall Hill Square (at Beaver Hall Hill and Dorchester, now René Lévesque) around 1870
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : La veille de Noël en 1870
Estampe, “Le Marché Bonsecours la veille de Noël”, 1870 Collection du musée McCord
By Christopher DeWolf