Walking Tours

Both created thanks to community mobilization, the Champ des Possibles and the Parc des Gorilles are green spaces occupying former railway wastelands. They are connected by the Parc linéaire du Réseau-Vert, an unfinished project inaugurated in 1994. During this walk, led by members of The Main and Mile End Memories […]

Champ des Possibles and Parc des Gorilles

2025-08-22 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

Saint-Enfant-Jésus - intérieur — Sorry, this entry is only available in French.

(Français) Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus – visite et conférence – Journées du patrimoine ...

2025-08-11 in News and Activities / Talks / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

In collaboration with the Société de développement du Boulevard Saint-Laurent, The Main and Mile End Memories presents a series of historical walks. Three guides, three different approaches to explore the boulevard’s history, architecture and cultural richness. They will take place on seven Friday mornings, from 11 July to 22 August […]

Historical Walks on The Main 2025

2025-07-05 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Urban Agriculture in Mile End: Past and Present (bilingual tour) Unearth the hidden history of urban agriculture in Mile End! Come along on a unique two-hour walking tour through over 150 years of agricultural transformation in Mile End—from its 19th-century rural roots to today’s cutting-edge urban farming initiatives. Along the […]

Two walking tours on natural heritage

2025-06-09 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church at the centre of Lahaie Park is a neighborhood landmark, the first and largest place of worship in Mile End. The church is exceptional for its architecture unique in Québec and for the architects and artists who designed and decorated it. It stimulated and accompanied the urbanization of […]

Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church : tour of the interior and the urban ...

2025-04-03 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Walking tour (in French) Sunday June 4, 2023, 1:00 p.m. See description in French.

Walking Tour: The Transformation of Mile End East

2023-05-24 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

Saturday, October 1, 2:00 p.m. Space available in English tour In this two-hour tour we’ll stroll along many of the streets of the neighbourhood to discover some of the places and themes that inspired several Montreal writers during the 20th and 21st centuries. We’ll read excerpts – some in their […]

Mile End Literary Tour 2022

2022-09-27 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Sorry, this entry is only available in French.

Walking tour: Mile End then and now

2022-07-09 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

In 1915, St. Michael’s church in Mile End could boast that it was the largest English-speaking Catholic parish in the city of Montreal. Over the next few decades, that population moved away to other parts of the city. St. Michael’s merged with a Polish mission in 1969 and today, people […]

Walking tour: In search of Irish Mile End

2021-10-28 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

In this two-hour tour we’ll stroll along many of the streets of the neighbourhood to discover some of the places and themes that inspired several Montreal writers during the 20th and 21st centuries. We’ll read excerpts – some in their original languages, some in translation. The tour is being offered […]

Mile End Literary Tour 2021

2021-09-10 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Manifestation de locataires expulsés de leurs logements de l'avenue Esplanade, organisée par le Comité logement Saint-Louis, 12 mai 1977. — Our first walking tour of 2021 will be held in French on Sunday, 1 August at 1 pm. Please see here for description and details, including the link for registration (required). English version: From its early days as a small, rural, French-Canadian village, through its era as the heart and […]

Walking Tour: Citizen action in Mile End

2021-07-16 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

Contemporary Jewish Mile End from World War II to today Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 – 2:30 pm This tour will present a lesser known aspect of Mile End. The largest Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal before World War II, it changed from the 1940s onward as various Hassidic Jewish communities moved […]

Walking tour: Contemporary Jewish Mile End

2019-10-09 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Mile End Memories is offering eight walking tours in the neighbourhood this year, on Sunday afternoons (and a couple of Saturdays) at 2 pm, between 16 June and 13 October. Reservations not required. A voluntary contribution ($10 suggested) would be appreciated, to support the organization’s programs. Sunday 13 October – […]

Walking Tours 2019

2019-07-06 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Mile End Memories, in collaboration with the Mordecai-Richler Library, presents a new version of its Historical and Literary Tour of Mile End during the Journées de la culture. Rediscover the neighbourhood with a walking tour featuring historical and literary references to places that have inspired many authors and artists. The walk, led […]

Journées de la culture 2018: Historical and Literary Tour

2018-09-13 in News and Activities / Talks / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

After the success in 2017 of the walking tour series Promenades sur le Plateau : histoires et cultures offered in collaboration with the Société d’histoire du Plateau Mont-Royal during the celebrations of the 375th anniversary of Montreal, Mile End Memories has the pleasure of offering most of the Mile End program […]