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Photo du jour: Sixties Ste. Catherine
Ste. Catherine and Mansfield, looking west, in 1961
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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...
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GST cut gives the city a $500,000 windfall
Canada’s GST will be cut by one more percent on Tuesday, bringing the national sales tax down to 5%. Rather than bringing down the price of its...
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Griffintown’s citizen activists
This weekend in the Gazette, Steve Faguy spoke to a handful of the citizen activists who are casting a critical eye on the Griffintown redevelopment...
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Photo du jour : l’argent et la religion
Photo de la tour CIBC et de la Basilique-Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde prise le 25 décembre 2007.
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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...
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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...
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Je fais mon Steinberg
It’s hard to overstate the importance the Steinberg family played in the postwar development of Montreal. Their grocery store chain single-handedly...
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Nouvelles machines de cartes à puce et Métrovision à Lionel-Groulx
2007 aura vu l’apparition dans la plupart des stations de métro du réseau de la STM, des appareils qui serviront durant le printemps 2008 Ã...
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Photo du jour: Mutilated in Mile End
In this before-and-after shot we can see the evolution (some would say devolution) of the Park Avenue retail strip between Bernard and St. Viateur. In the...
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Photo du jour : Pont Champlain
Photo prise le 25 décembre 2007, sur le pont Champlain
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Walking Montreal’s streets in 1987
As much as I like photos of Montreal from 100 years ago, it’s shots from more recent decades that really pique my interest. Luckily, Flickr has...
By Christopher DeWolf
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered