Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Snowdon discoveries
On my snowy walk from Hampstead to Snowdon today, I stopped to check in on one of my favourite urban oddities. The only sign of its existence is a...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The night owls are watching your bike
This note was attached to a bike on Sherbrooke Street in NDG. It’s one of those heart-warming reminders that our neighbours really are looking out...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Dorchester Boulevard
It has been 52 years since Dorchester Street (renamed after René Lévesque in 1987) was transformed into an eight-lane boulevard. In this 1960 photo, you...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Tarnished by corruption? Apparently not
Gérald Tremblay’s Union Montreal maintained control of Outremont in yesterday’s by-election, despite last fall’s booze-and-financial...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Michel Dallaire to design new downtown street furniture
“Les amoureux se bécoteront sur de nouveaux bancs publics,” reads a headline in this morning’s Le Devoir — “Lovers will kiss...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Craig Terminus
Until Montreal scrapped its streetcars in 1959, the Craig Terminus was one of the hubs of the city’s sprawling tramway network. Located near the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
La voie est libre sur Hutchison
Sur la rue Hutchison, petite soeur de l’Avenue du Parc sur presque toute sa longueur, il n’est pas rare de voir des skieurs de fond déambuler...
By Cédric Sam -
Maison Radio-Canada to be converted into hotel, condos, offices
Montreal is awash in development. Between the two megahospitals, the Quartier des spectacles, Griffintown, Viger Station and countless smaller...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Another day, another snowstorm
This photo was from the other storm this month, on December 3rd.
By Christopher DeWolf -
Keep de Maisonneuve closed to traffic
Downtown motorists will have to wait until March to drive down the block of de Maisonneuve Blvd. between Aylmer and Union, the city has announced. By...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Montreal’s vanished synagogues
Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, McGill College near Sherbrooke WHAT? Makom: Seeking Sacred Space, a photo exhibition of former synagogues in Montreal...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : lanternes chinoises au Jardin Botanique
Photo prise le 8 septembre 2005, au Jardin Botanique de Montréal, lors de La Magie des lanternes.
By Cédric Sam