History / Histoire

De la mixité à Montréal (1ère partie)

D’aucun ne s’étonnerait, qui a vécu à Montréal plusieurs années, de se retrouver face à un club de danse érotique sur une rue commerciale du...

How My Father Sees the Mile End

This post is a guest contribution by Daniel Rotsztain, a student in Urban Geography who is originally from Toronto. My dad was born in the Mile End so I...

Photo du jour – Square Viger

Urban cottages

Country-style house on Berri near Boucher, in the Plateau. As time passes cities’ built environments change with the arrival of new technologies...

Addendum: Café Cleo’s John Zoumboulakis

On Saturday I wrote about Café Cleopatra’s last stand on the lower Main. After refusing to sell his property to the Société de Développement Angus...

Orange Julep an Oldie and a Goodie

“I don’t know” I said aloud as I perused the fast food menu. “Orange drink is usually gross, and it’s kind of expensive...

Photo du jour – Copernicus

A monument to Nicolaus Copernicus, inaugurated as part of Exo ’67 and installed at its present location in Chaboillez Square in 1975. The plaque...

Rizzuto funeral

The funeral service for Nick Rizzuto Jr., son of mob boss Vito Rizzuto, at Madonna Della Difesa Church in Montreal’s Little Italy this afternoon...

Mont Royal Ave’s first flirtation with pedestrianization

Summer 1970: Montreal’s first mall. Not the suburban kind of mall we’ve grown to dread, but a pedestrian shopping area in the heart of the...

Mile End in 1840

Montreal seen from Mile End, 1840 Browsing through the Gazette’s archives, which have been digitized and made accessible by Google News (at least...

Save the Main

A feature interview with Eric Paradis, organizer of Save the Main, about the city of Montreal’s plan for Boulevard Saint-Laurent.

The Montreal Logo

  It’s a symbol that’s familiar to all Montrealers. It appears on street signs, official correspondence, libraries, city vehicles, and city...