Monument National
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Photo du jour: Monument-National
Location: Place de la Paix, Boulevard Saint Laurent Date of photo: December 2 2013 Photographer: Martin New at Montreal in Pictures
By Martin New -
Photo du jour: Rear of the Monument National theatre
Location: rue Clark Date of photo: August 29 2013 Photographer: Martin New at Montreal in Pictures
By Martin New -
Sad End in Sight for the Lower Main
This week the the Lower Main redevelopment saga is drawing to a sad and quiet close: on December 21st, the Ville-Marie borough ordered the demolition of...
By Alanah Heffez -
Montreal Pool Room to Cross the Street
Despite the recent backpeddling by the Société de Développement Angus, the Montreal Pool Room building was sold March 3rd. One certainly can’t blame...
By Alanah Heffez -
SDA Backpedals on Lower Main Redevelopments
Breaking News: The three new buildings proposed by Société Dévelopment Angus on Boulevard Saint-Laurent will be smaller and longer in coming than...
By Alanah Heffez -
Slow Down, Quadrilatère Saint-Laurent
The Public Consultation Bureau of Montreal has finally released their report and recommendations following the deposition of over 30 memoirs and a...
By Alanah Heffez -
Lower Main May be Razed…Again
The big changes in store for the lower Main that we announced over a year ago are slowly becoming concrete. In December, the Gazette reported that Angus...
By Alanah Heffez -
A peek inside Yiddish Montreal
Yiddish was Montreal’s third language for the entire first half of the twentieth century. Up and down the Main, people gossiped in Yiddish, shopped...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Big changes in store for the lower Main
La Presse has discovered that negotiations are underway to transform the west block of St. Laurent, from the Monument National to Ste. Catherine St., into...
By Christopher DeWolf -
When Chinatown was a Jewish neighbourhood
Did you know that today’s Chinatown was once Jewish? From 1890 to 1920, thousands of Yiddish-speaking Jews came to Montreal from Eastern Europe and...
By Christopher DeWolf -
Axel Morgenthaler on the Quartier des spectacles
Even the best cities are better at night. Hong Kong’s frenzied streets are bathed in neon; Paris takes on a desultory air as the streets grow dark...
By Christopher DeWolf