Neighbourhoods / Quartiers
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Photo du jour : de l’ancien au nouveau Chinatown
Le vieux magasin d’import-export Swatow, le nouveau complexe commercial Swatow. Photo prise le 9 septembre 2007. Lisez l’article par...
By Cédric Sam -
Norman Bethune Square gets a makeover
Norman Bethune is getting a bath. His statue, which normally stands encrusted in bird poop at the corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve, in the most...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Collège Français, en quatre temps
Fondé en 1959, le Collège Français est un établissement d’enseignement privé situé au coeur du Mile End, sur l’Avenue Fairmount. En 1972, le...
By Cédric Sam -
Blast from the (very recent) past
I was rummaging through some of my old photos this evening when I came across some that were taken in the fall of 2002. It is so recent yet, in some ways...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: The Lower Main
These metal shutters, common in so many cities around the world, are mostly absent in Montreal — except in the area around Ste. Catherine and the...
By Christopher DeWolf -
The problems with the Griffintown project
Raphaël Fischler, a professor of urban design at McGill University, has weighed in on the Griffintown project with an op-ed published in today’s...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Welcome, winter
This year, winter came early, with an endless week of snow and slush. The snowstorm last night was nice, though, a reminder of the calm that descends over...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour : Pas d’espèce de cochon
This sign, located in an alley near Mount Royal and St. Denis on the Plateau, is meant to encourage cleanliness, but I can’t help but feel sorry for...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Chinatown’s changing, but it’s still a vital place
Chinatown is changing: new businesses are opening and a set of vacant lots on St. Laurent is set to be transformed next year into a $20 million shopping...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Greening Milton Park
Hutchison Street in Milton Park, aka the McGill Ghetto The neighbourhood of Milton-Parc is tucked into a corner of downtown between McGill University and...
By Misha Warbanski -
Photo du jour: “No parking” in three languages
Alley behind Park Avenue. July 23, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf -
Taking ephemeral art to the streets
Nobody like a self-promoter, so it feels awfully gauche to be writing about my own articles twice in a single day. Don’t judge me too harshly! In...
By Christopher DeWolf