History / Histoire
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Avant-Après Aerial Edition: Pointe du Moulin
Special contribution by Anton Dubrau. A series of aerial photos taken between 1947 and 1949, which were recently published by the City of Montreal, and...
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Photo du jour: The Stewart Museum
Location: The Stewart Museum on Ile Sainte Hélène Date of photo: April 6 2013 Photographer: Martin New at Montreal in Pictures
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Avant-Après Aerial Edition: Mount Royal & the 11 Tram
Special contribution by Anton Dubrau. A series of aerial photos taken between 1947 and 1949, which were recently published by the City of Montreal, and...
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2011 Charbonneau Commission: from scandal to indifference
Last week we learned that Judge Charbonneau would get another 18 months to shed light on the breadth and depth of corruption in Quebec’s...
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1972-84 CECO: “You have all eaten carrion”
Part 4 in our history of corruption in Montreal. Check Spacing Montreal each day this week for the latest “episode” in this century-long soap...
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1950-54 Caron Inquiry: “Montreal in the grips of the underworld”
Part 3 in our history of corruption in Montreal. Check Spacing Montreal each day this week for the latest “episode” in this century-long soap...
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1924-25 Coderre Inquiry: “Vice stalks through our city”
Part 2 in our history of corruption in Montreal. Check Spacing Montreal each day this week for the latest “episode” in this century-long soap...
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1909 Royal Commission: Montreal “Saturated with Corruption”
Montreal Corruption Retrospectives are all the rage these days, and for the spring 2013 edition of Spacing Magazine, which was released last Saturday, I...
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Montreal in Perpetuity
I’ve been wondering about how much influence dead people have in urban planning. I’m not talking about the instances in which we choose to pay...
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Patrimoine : des disparitions à venir (?)
En guise de complément à la liste des sites menacés de 2013 présenté par Héritage Montréal en début de semaine, voici une liste complémentaire de quelques...
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Place des Nations & Other Ruins of a Lost Civilisation
Heritage Montréal recently released their 2013 list of 10 most threatened heritage sites in Montreal, among them Place des Nations, once the heart of the...
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Traces of Tobacco in the Landscape
Eliot Perrin performs archival work for the Macdonald Stewart Foundation here in Montreal. At the corner of Rue Ontario and Rue d’Iberville sits the...
By Spacing