Happy holidays to you and yours. May your 2010 be filled with wonderful memories, both old and new, of the Mile End neighbourhood. Check the dates of our upcoming activities!
Yearly Archives: 2009
Tonight’s presentation is postponed for reasons beyond our control. You will receive a notice of the new date, along with the program of other activities for Winter 2010, shortly. Thank you for your understanding, Mile End Memories, 2 December 2009 Susan Bronson, architect & historian This lecture will mark the […]
Lecture POSTPONED: Building Mile End, 1895-1910
JOIN US THIS WEEKEND IN THE DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION OF THE DIVERSE HERITAGE OF MILE END’S SAINT-VIATEUR EAST SECTOR (BORDERED BY SAINT-LAURENT BOULEVARD, THE RAILWAY LINE NEAR VAN HORNE AVENUE, SAINT-DENIS STREET AND LAURIER AVENUE), WITH ITS MEGASTRUCTURES, ITS RAILWAY LINE, ITS “FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES,” ITS ROWHOUSES, ITS CLOISTERED CONVENT […]
Discover the Saint-Viateur East Sector
WALKING TOUR IN ENGLISH: MILE END’S RESIDENTIAL HERITAGE Susan Bronson, architect and historian Download the poster as a PDF The group Mile End Memories** invites you to join us on a walk through the streets and lanes of Mile End. The tour will focus on rowhouses: the circumstances that influenced their […]
Mile End’s Residential Heritage
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount Royal to Van Horne (Walking tour, in French with interventions in English, in collaboration with Les Amis du boulevard Saint-Laurent) Learn about municipal politicians and owners who contributed to the construction and transformation of the section of Saint-Laurent Boulevard that was part of […]
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount ...
Walking tour : Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist Mile End Memories* and Slow Food Montreal** invite you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood. Date and time: Sunday 9 August 2009, 11 a.m.-1 […]
Supplementary tour, Sunday 9 August 2009
Walking tour : Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist Mile End Memories** invites you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood. The walking tour will be followed by a special plant-based snack and […]
Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount Royal to Van Horne (Walking tour, in French with interventions in English, offered by the Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Mile End Memories**) Meet municipal politicians and owners who contributed to the construction and transformation of the section of Saint-Laurent Boulevard that was part […]
The Voices of Mile End’s Main
“JANE’S WALK” (HONOURING URBAN ACTIVIST AND CRITIC JANE JACOBS)**: FROM ROWHOUSES TO MEGASTRUCTURES: SAINT VIATEUR EAST SECTOR Offered by Mile End Memories, Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Mile End Citizens’ Committee (Guides: Susan Bronson and others) This walk will focus on a unique sector of Mile End that is about to undergo […]
“JANE’S WALK”: FROM ROWHOUSES TO MEGASTRUCTURES: SAINT VIATEUR EAST SECTOR
Walking tour: Discover the Saint Viateur East Sector Susan Bronson Mile End Memories and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard** invite you to explore the Saint Viateur East Sector, bound by Laurier Avenue, Saint Laurent Boulevard, the CP railway line and Saint Denis Street. Discover the history of this unique urban vernacular landscape, […]
Walking tour: Discover the Saint Viateur East Sector
You are invited to participate in the last two CITIZENS’ CAFÉS on the development of Mile End’s Saint-Viateur East District. For the purposes of our discussions, this district is framed by the CPR tracks near Van Horne Avenue to the north, Saint-Laurent Boulevard(including the properties on both sides of the street) to the […]