Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Photo du jour: Park Avenue
Sunset. Park near St. Viateur. May 22, 2007.
By Christopher DeWolf -
Mile End’s manhole covers: the mystery is solved!
Last month I asked if anyone knew who was painting the manhole covers of Mile End. Slowly but surely, readers started offering some leads. One mentioned...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The 1970 Architectural Concept
Ed: This piece by Spacing’s Ottawa/Gatineau Region correspondent Amber Yared is cross posted from SpacingToronto and continues the investigation...
By Shawn Micallef -
Photo d’époque du jour
Voici une photo de la rue Metcalfe en direction Sud prise de la rue Sherbrooke en 1964. Cliquez ici pour voir la même rue en 2007.
By Guillaume St-Jean -
Photo du jour: Restaurant For Sale
“Restaurant For Sale.” La Gauchetière and St. Urbain. May 10, 2005.
By Christopher DeWolf -
Mozart, Dante and Molière
Whenever I head up to Little Italy, on my way for a coffee at Caffè Italia or some gelato at the Jean Talon Market, I wonder about Dante Street, a fairly...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Open Da Night
Café Olimpico. St. Viateur and Waverly. June 11, 2006
By Christopher DeWolf -
Follow the sharrows
Counterflow bike lane on Milton Street, near Lorne Avenue A couple of days ago, Dale Duncan wrote on Spacing Toronto about sharrows, or shared road...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Phillips Square
Phillips Square, it has always seemed to me, is inexplicably overlooked. In theory, it should be one of Montreal’s most prominent public spaces...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Apple to open Flagship store on Ste-Catherine
Being a nerd, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Apple plans to build a massive 9 300 square foot flagship store in the heart of Downtown at 1321...
By Chris Erb -
Where is the West Island?
Every Montrealer knows that the West Island is not, in fact, an island unto itself: it is simply the westernmost part of Montreal Island, a collection of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Destination: boulevard Décarie
When most people think of Décarie Boulevard, images of an incredibly wide, smelly, and loud street with a six lane wide trench running down the middle...
By Chris Erb