History / Histoire
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1995 : la mort de l’État-nation ?
Alors. Il y a 15 ans, le Québec a presque voté « OUI » pour son indépendance. Ou, il a presque voté « OUI » pour qu’il devienne souverain, après...
By Émile Thomas -
Event Guide: Back alley photo installation
An art exhibit featuring called Laterna Magica has been inhabiting the alleyways between Mentana, Saint-André, Roy and Bousquet, until Monday October...
By Alanah Heffez -
1897 Bicycle Map of Montreal
1897 map of Montreal area cycling routes from the BANQ archives: the best cycling routes are indicated by dotted red lines while “normal”...
By Alanah Heffez -
Joe Beef : The wickedest man in Montreal?
“Joe Beef is Dead. For twenty-five years, he has enjoyed in his own way the reputation of being for Montreal what was in former days known under the...
By Alanah Heffez -
Joe Beef – The friend of the working man
“Joe Beef of Montreal, The friend of the working man.” How did a British army vet turned barman extraordinaire become the champion of...
By Alanah Heffez -
Where the wild things were: Joe Beef’s Canteen
Joe Beef is Montreal’s own brand of Robin Hood: he revolted the rich and got the poor good and liquored. While he is generally revered by those who...
By Alanah Heffez -
Final farewell to the Seville Theatre
Demolition under way at the corner of Sainte-Catherine and Lambert-Closse. After decades of neglect and indecision, the Seville Theatre’s days are...
By Devin Alfaro -
L’archéologue urbain / la Pointe-à-Callière
L’école de fouilles de Pointe-à-Callière, un partenariat entre le musée du même nom et l’Université de Montréal, existe maintenant depuis plus...
By Alex Lefrançois Leduc -
Filmmakers seek old-time Empress photos
Remember when the Empress was alive and well? Got photos to prove it? A pair of documentary film-makers are looking for photographs of the Empress for a...
By Alanah Heffez -
Jane Jacobs, Quebec sovereigntist
“While it is quite possible that Quebec would do no better on its own than as a province of Canada, there is little reason to suppose that it would...
By Devin Alfaro -
Remembering history in our cities
Derrick Lovell, my colleague and political scientist in-training, recently wrote a very insightful piece about how we’ve allowed our cities to...
By Émile Thomas -
L’archéologue urbain à l’Île des Soeurs
Contribué par Alex Lefrançois Leduc, un étudiant à la maîtrise en archéologie à l’Université de Montréal Le rôle de l’archéologie dans l’aménagement...
By Spacing