Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Welcome to Little Maghreb
Walk a few minutes east from Saint-Michel metro and you’ll find yourself in one of Montreal’s most recent ethnic neighbourhoods: the Petit...
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Photo du jour : Ahuntsic vu du ciel
Les avenues Christophe-Colomb et Papineau, traversant le quartier Ahuntsic, au nord de l’Île de Montréal. La rivière des Prairies coupe le haut de...
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Photo du jour : lieu de rencontre
Au Complexe Guy-Favreau, des personnes âgées d’origine chinoise s’assoient sous un arbre (en plastique) pour bavarder. Un édifice du...
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Photo(s) du jour: Schoolyard basketball
Basketball in a schoolyard at Victoria and Van Horne in Côte des Neiges. January 10, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf -
Building a new market in Vieux-Longueuil
Most real estate developments don’t have their own blogs. The Marché du Vieux-Longueuil is different. Louis Voizard, its developer, is tracking its...
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Axel Morgenthaler on the Quartier des spectacles
Even the best cities are better at night. Hong Kong’s frenzied streets are bathed in neon; Paris takes on a desultory air as the streets grow dark...
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Photo du jour: Schoolyard hockey
Schoolyard hockey at Marie Anne and Henri Julien on the Plateau. November 4, 2007
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Once upon a time, St. Louis Square had a basin
St. Louis Square, often known as Carré St-Louis (though this is, to the surprise of many, actually an anglicism), is one of Montreal’s greatest...
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Mysterious igloos appear on Mount Royal
The Journal de Montréal reported yesterday that two igloos have appeared on Mount Royal, one near Park Avenue and the other further west, near Beaver...
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Photo du jour: Verdun Annex
Advertisement, from the late 1900s or early 1910s, for new real estate development in Verdun. Found in the BANQ’s Massicotte Albums.
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Visionary architecture at the Cinéma du Parc
WHAT? Visionary Architecture: Great Expectations & Kochuu and Moshe Safdie, The Power Of Architecture, three films on architecture WHEN? 7pm and 9pm...
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A condo tower done right
A certain segment of the population seems hard-wired to scoff at any mention of the word “condominium.” It’s certainly true that most...
By Christopher DeWolf