Neighbourhoods / Quartiers

Photo du Jour: “Stoppons la destruction”

Photo du jour: Fairmount Avenue

Crossing Fairmount at Park during another snowstorm — this one on December 15, 2003

Photo du jour: Downtown death defiance

Kristian Gravenor of Coolopolis found this old newspaper photo of a stunt performed high above Stanley Street. Here’s the full scoop: August 5...

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Hello readers, I need your help! On my bike ride home from campus this evening, I passed a PT cruiser on the corner of Metcalfe and de Maisonneuve. There...

Photo du jour : Station C

Ancienne station postale “C”, transformée en espace artistique, au milieu du village gai de Montréal. Photo prise le 4 décembre 2007.

New look for the Ritz-Carlton

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, one of Sherbrooke Street’s most recognizable landmarks, will soon be transformed with a $100 million renovation and...

Photo du jour : Graffiti sur Aylmer et Milton

Photo prise le 16 septembre 2006.

Big changes in store for the lower Main

La Presse has discovered that negotiations are underway to transform the west block of St. Laurent, from the Monument National to Ste. Catherine St., into...

Photo du jour : Green’s Superette

According to the Wikipedia entry, its name “Superette” is derived from Supermarket, compounded with the suffix “ette” meaning...

When Chinatown was a Jewish neighbourhood

Did you know that today’s Chinatown was once Jewish? From 1890 to 1920, thousands of Yiddish-speaking Jews came to Montreal from Eastern Europe and...

Photo du jour : Coin Stanley / Ste-Catherine

Photo prise le 16 septembre 2006.

Cultural space to be built on Saint-Laurent metro

One of the more inexplicable vacant lots in town has been always been the one surrounding Saint-Laurent metro, at the corner of the Main and de...