Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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1ière avenue, part 3: Lachine
Continuing our tour of Montreal’s 1ière avenues, we find ourselves on Lachine’s tiny “1 Avenue” (as the street sign indicates) at...
By Chris Erb -
Photo du Jour : The Last House on Ste-Marguerite
This house was built in 1890 and sits on its own tiny block, south of Notre-Dame. On a recent visit, I found it looking a little pitiful with those...
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du Jour : Little Busker
Photo taken Saturday March 28th on Saint-Viateur.
By Alanah Heffez -
Photo du jour : La Maison de Radio-Canada
CBC/Radio-Canada a été frappé de 800 mises à pied annoncées ce mercredi. Ce chiffre pourrait être revu à la hausse si la vente d’actifs de la...
By Cédric Sam -
What is a Neighbourhood? – Le Coeur du Quartier
Elliot the the dog out for a romp in the alleyways of a not-yet-definitively-named neighbourhood. Every once in a while I overhear a heated debate about...
By Alanah Heffez -
Uncovering Turcot’s future (under a mountain of paper): BAPE documents reviewed
Source: MTQ On March 24, the Bureau des Audiences Publiques sur l’environnement revealed the documents which it will be considering its...
By Jacob Larsen -
Plateau-Mont-Royal borough releases traffic-calming plan
As part of the city’s Plan de transport, an ambitious set of guidelines designed to decrease the number of cars on city streets and better...
By Chris Erb -
New City Gas Co. building threatened by bus corridor proposal/Bonaventure redevelopment
The plan to tear down the Bonaventure Expressway in favour of an “urban boulevard” (with four lanes going both ways), complete with new office...
By Chris Erb -
Photo du Jour : Chinatown Rendez-Vous
Photo prise le 17 mars 20090
By Alanah Heffez -
Photos du Jour : “Negro Community Centre”
The NCC/Charles H. Este Cultural Centre (formerly Negro Community Centre) was founded in 1928 and housed on the corner of Coursol Street and Canning...
By Alanah Heffez -
Independent Experts Question Turcot Plans
Turcot Think Tank: independent experts held a press conference March 17th. A team of independent experts calling themselves the Turcot Think Tank (TTT...
By Alanah Heffez -
Up to BAPE: Turcot’s environmental day in court begins
Today, Radio-Canada report that the Bureau des audiences publiques sur l’environnement would make public the information it had on the Turcot...
By Jacob Larsen