History / Histoire
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Montréal Avant : visitez Montréal il y a 100 ans sur iPhone et Android !
À partir du 12 avril 2012, il sera désormais possible de visualiser in situ les photographies avant-après publiées sur le blogue au cours des dernières...
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Berri Square: Keeping Our Common Ground
Last week I wrote about how, after three years of volunteering with Dans la Rue, I came to see Berri Square as one of the few places where...
By Alanah Heffez -
Le goût de Montréal: chronique alimentaire d’un baby-boomer
Mon père est né en 1944, il n’est donc pas techniquement un baby-boomer. Mais alimentairement parlant, c’est tout comme: il a vécu, avec les Québécois et...
By Joel Thibert -
Square Chaboillez and the Dangers of Precedent
The images and some of the content of this post has been adapted from Montréalités Urbaines with the author’s permission. Can the City sell a park...
By Alanah Heffez -
Water and citizenship
If you’re among the 50% of Montrealers who rent their homes, and the 38% of Montrealers who vote in municipal elections, you may have one extra...
By Alanah Heffez -
Le goût de Montréal // Bouffe de rue : pour une approche systémique | Partie 1 – Contexte et « adversaires »
Fish and chips, satay, curry, Laksa, Mee rebus, burritos, marrons chauds, poutine; tous des plats que j’aimerais bien déguster dans la rue avec vous...
By Jonathan Lapalme -
The People’s Yellow Pages – A Guide to 1970s Underground Montreal
When I met Santropol owner Garth Gilker to talk about the café’s impact on the urban landscape, I ended up with more stories than I had bargained...
By Alanah Heffez -
A Taste for Montreal: How Santropol May Have Saved St-Urbain & Duluth
Garth Gilker moved in to the third floor of the triplex on the corner of Duluth and St-Urbain street around 1970. An anglo Gaspésien, Gilker says that he...
By Alanah Heffez -
Where have all the snowbanks gone?
Having just spent an hour pushing two cars out of the driveway at a friend’s cottage, it seems like an appropriate time to re-examine some of our...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour : Silo 5
The Old Port’s Silo 5, out of commission since 1996.
By Devin Alfaro -
Photo du jour : Bière d’épinette de Chez-Nous
A wonderfully kitschy gem located on Marie-Anne just east of De Lorimier, in the east end of the Plateau. Unfortunately the casse-croûte in question is...
By Devin Alfaro -
Photo du jour : Most beneficient and most glorious reign
Detail of a monument to Queen Victoria, in Dorchester Square. The amount of “The Maple Leaf Forever” style kitsch in this one public space is...
By Devin Alfaro