Yearly Archives: 2013
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(Français) Conférence : de la «Mile End Farm» à «Montreal ...
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(Français) L’action citoyenne dans le Mile End
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(Français) Nos conférences à la bibliothèque du Mile End cet ...
How did this area get the name Mile End? A simple question, not so simple to answer! The question has been asked for decades, not only by local residents but also by various authors. Here are three articles that gradually converge towards an explanation. — The first was written in […]
The origins of Mile End
[November 2014] On September 29, 2013, during the Journées de la culture, Mile End Memories held a Human Library event in collaboration with the Mile End Library. Here are some of the impressions and reactions of participants in the 2013 Human Library, as collected by Mistaya Hemingway. You can also […]
Mile End Human Library, 2013
Walking Tour presented by Mile End Memories in collaboration with the non-profit group Bain Saint-Michel The Bain Saint-Michel in its neighbourhood Tour led by Yves Desjardins and Josée Laplace Sunday, September 22, 2013, 10:30 am–12 noon On the occasion of the event «On occupe le Bain Saint-Michel !», Mile End Memories proposes an exploration of the […]
Walking Tour: The Bain Saint-Michel in its neighbourhood
1 The Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s fame stems, in part, from the construction of prestigious grand hotels between 1888 and 1930 designed to attract affluent tourists to spectacular sites served by the railroad. Inspired by the castles of France’s Loire Valley, they became icons of the Canadian landscape, including Château Frontenac […]
The story of the C.P.R. Hotel
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Les mouvements citoyens
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La cour ferroviaire
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Des familles fondatrices du Mile End
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L’automobile
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Les transports urbains
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Le chemin de fer
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L’origine du nom Mile End
Saturday 8 June – 2–4 pm tour led by Justin Bur and Yves Desjardins Mile End Memories is offering a tour of the most notable sites in Mile End! Between Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church, first Catholic parish on the Plateau Mont-Royal, and the church of Saint Michael & Saint Anthony, Mile End’s […]
Walking Tour: Discovering Mile End
Tuesday 21 May – History and Evolution of Italian Immigration in Montreal Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard amisboulevardstlaurent.com Lecture (in French) presented by Bruno Ramirez, historian specializing in the history of North American immigration, professor at Université de Montréal Followed by the Annual General Meeting of Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard Café Conca d’Oro, […]
Partners’ activities – lectures
Places of Worship in Transition tour led by Susan Bronson, Aldo Marchini, Joshua Wolfe, and Janis Zubalik Sunday 5 May 2013, 2 pm–4 pm during Jane’s Walks 2013 Join us for a walk aimed at discovering Mile End’s rich religious heritage in the context of urban activist Jane Jacobs’s ideas about livable […]
Walking Tour: The Religious Heritage of Mile End
Wikipedia is one of the most consulted web sites on the planet. In the French-language Wikipedia, there are already several articles about the history and institutions of Mile End. How can we improve the content? What additions would be most useful? Are there new sources of images that can be […]
Workshop: Mile End in Wikipedia
Montreal’s ‘Other’ Women: Saint-Laurent Boulevard as a Gendered Space of Difference Lecture by Julie Podmore presented in collaboration with Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard. This presentation examines the role played by gender in construction of Saint- Laurent Boulevard as 20th-century Montreal’s ‘space of difference’. The ‘Main’ was a discursive axis through […]