Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Sauvons l’église Saint-Sauveur!
The saviour is in need of saving. One of Montreal’s last-remaining mid-nineteenth century churches, the Église Saint-Sauveur at the corner of St...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Glen Road
Glen Road is, along with Greene Avenue, one of just two links between Lower Westmount and St. Henri. Whereas the Greene Avenue connection is fairly...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s Chinatown in 1984
I almost had to twist my father’s arm to get these photos onto Flickr, but it was well worth it. Since Boxing Day, he has been busy scanning our...
By Cédric Sam -
Tango de Montréal
[youtube]lej1kLzaIgA[/youtube] “Montreal Tango” was made last year for a National Film Board workshop by Tarek al-Nosir and two of his Dawson...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s suburban villages: Sainte Anne de Bellevue
Compact, walkable and attractive, Ste. Anne de Bellevue is one of the nicest old towns in suburban Montreal. It’s also about as far west as you can...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Tramway d’hiver
Horse-drawn tram on Ste. Catherine Street near Greene Avenue, 1877
By Christopher DeWolf -
Greening Montreal’s laneways
Montrealers across the city are taking a renewed interest in their laneways. Since many of them are too narrow to work as service corridors, their...
By Christopher DeWolf -
New life for Montreal’s park chalets
Beaver Lake chalet, photo by Frédéric Saia Original 1955 plans for the chalet Earlier this year, after two years of renovation, the Beaver Lake chalet on...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Sixties Ste. Catherine
Ste. Catherine and Mansfield, looking west, in 1961
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s postwar neighbourhoods
Jean Talon Street in Saint Michel For all of its historic neighbourhoods, Montreal is really a postwar city. In the twenty years after 1941, the number of...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: הצלה
Hatzoloh is a volunteer EMS organization that functions in Orthodox Jewish communities around the world, including the west end of Montreal and Kiryas...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal in the snow… in February 1972
Peel Street looking north from Sherbrooke It must be end-of-year nostalgia: after Mike Gericke’s photos of Montreal in 1987, I can’t help but...
By Christopher DeWolf