Parks / Parcs
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Less is more: Montreal’s new public spaces
Montreal is in the midst of a great public space building boom. Plenty of new squares, plazas and open spaces have been created over the past six or seven...
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Photo du jour : Mosaïcultures 2000
Photo prise en 2000, lors des Mosaïcultures au Vieux-Port de Montréal.
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Norman Bethune Square’s makeover confirmed
Pretty much anyone who spends time in the west end of downtown will agree that Norman Bethune Square, at the corner of Guy and de Maisonneuve, desperately...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Photo du jour: Soccer break
Jeanne Mance Park, July 29, 2007
By Christopher DeWolf -
Cultural space to be built on Saint-Laurent metro
One of the more inexplicable vacant lots in town has been always been the one surrounding Saint-Laurent metro, at the corner of the Main and de...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Another photo flashback: Montreal in the 1980s
I had completely forgotten about John Allison’s great photos of Montreal in the early 1980s (in both colour and black-and-white) until Kate...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Remembering the Mount Royal Funicular
Just 90 years ago (it seems like yesterday!), you would have been able to transport yourself from the corner of Park and Duluth to the top of the mountain...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Mount Royal’s igloo mystery unfolds
Last week, when I wrote about two mysterious igloos that were discovered on Mount Royal by a Journal de Montréal reporter, Stefan Ohrhallinger posted a...
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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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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 -
Market day at Place Jacques Cartier
Once upon a time, before it became a playground for tourists, the east end of Old Montreal was a real, functioning neighbourhood. Nowhere was this more...
By Christopher DeWolf