Mile End Memories wishes you happy holidays and a 2012 full of neighbourhood pleasures. Watch for our program of activities for 2012 to be announced in January.
Yearly Archives: 2011
Mile End Memories has the pleasure of passing on this announcement from our honorary member Atigh Ould. The Nomad Festivals bring together nomads from all over the world with events in Montreal and Mauritania. This is a tribute to nomadic culture, with music, film screenings, camel race, vernissage, panel discussions, […]
Nomad Festival 2011
The Young Men’s Christian Association in Mile End a century ago Janis Zubalik, teacher and art historian In 1912, the North Branch of the Montreal Young Men’s Christian Association opened its doors at the corner of Park Avenue and St Viateur Street, in the bustling Mile End district. Next year, […]
Lecture: The YMCA in Mile End
A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MILE END MEMORIES: 1. The next activity of Mile End Memories will take place on Saturday 1 October 2011, as part of the Journées de la culture and the Montreal Architectural Heritage Campaign. Rialto Theatre Restoration Project Ezio Carosielli and Pierre Beaupré, architect The Rialto, a 1924 […]
Rialto (1/10) – À la track! (1/10) – Parc La ...
Justin Bur and Josée Laplace The industrial sector of Mile End is undergoing constant change and is targeted for redevelopment. This walk will follow the trail of clues about the buildings and activities that filled the area along the railway lines for three-quarters of a century, before they fell silent not so long […]
Walking Tour: Mile End’s Railway Landscape
Susan Bronson, Justin Bur, Josée Laplace (Change from the program published in the spring: the tour will be given in English on Saturday, and in French on Sunday.) Discover the rich history of New Mile End (between Saint-Denis and Christophe-Colomb Streets). We will explore the urban, cultural and social development […]
Walking Tour: New Mile End
Usually it’s “rain or shine”, but the downpour on 12 June was a bit too much. We’ll try to schedule an alternate date in the next few weeks. Justin Bur Discover the rich history of Eastern Mile End (between Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Saint-Denis Street, Mount Royal Avenue and Saint-Viateur Street). […]
Walking Tour: Eastern Mile End
Mile End Memories invites you to its next activities: 1. WALKING TOUR: WESTERN MILE END Susan Bronson, architect and historian Discover the rich history of Western Mile End (between Hutchison Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard), including the 19th-century agricultural and industrial exhibition grounds and early 20th-century rowhousing, mixed-use buildings and places […]
Walking Tour: Western Mile End – and Annual General Meeting
Offered by Mile End Memories and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard as one of the Jane’s Walks** Led by Justin Bur Mile End’s Saint-Viateur East Sector (bordered by Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Laurier Avenue, Saint-Denis Street and the CP railway line) features three-storey rowhouses beside 12-storey megastructures and a wild meadow occupying a former […]
From Rowhouses to Megastructures: the Saint-Viateur East Sector
Mile End Memories* and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard** invite you to their next joint activity: Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End Susan Bronson Discover the rich history of the built heritage of Saint-Laurent Boulevard between Mount Royal and Van Horne Avenues, as well as the many personalities who […]
Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End
The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Mile End Memories are pleased to invite you to the launch of phase 2 of their project The Main, Forever in Tune A series of interpretation panels about places of heritage interest in the Mile End sector of Saint-Laurent Boulevard (see amisboulevardstlaurent.com for phase 1). […]
The Main, forever in tune: launch April 7
Karen Herland, writer and educator Montreal’s Red Light District attracted people on both sides of the law who could exploit flexible definitions of morality and justice. However, prostitution was not limited to the intersection of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Sainte-Catherine Street. This lecture will take place in a building that housed one of Mile […]
Lecture: The Police Brothels of Mile End
Author Gail Scott** will explain how her writing is written in Mile End, with its layers of stories and people. She will talk about ghosts and the plurality of voices from everywhere in Mile End. She will talk about a “half-breed” grandfather and his French “gendarme” admirer in Mile End. And […]