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Yearly Archives: 2014
Church, synagogue, or community centre? The building at Fairmount and Hutchison is one of several in Mile End that have housed a succession of different communities over the years. This tour will explore both the interior and exterior, to discover how the various layers of its transformation are still visible, […]
Tour of the Ukrainian National Federation
2 Chapitre 3 – Mile End and its major landowners, part 1. The Bagg family and John Clark The Baggs and the Beaubiens. For several generations, these well-known Montreal families, one English-Canadian, the other French-Canadian, were major property holders and neighbours. They played an essential role in the transformation of a […]
3.1: John Clark, butcher, and Stanley Bagg, merchant
In November 2013, Patsy Van Roost created, with the support of the Plateau borough, ICI un souvenir (Here, a memory), a participative project intended to collect memories of people and events associated with places all over the Plateau Mont-Royal. The result was 437 handwritten yellow cards filled out. Patsy then installed […]
ICI un souvenir
Patsy Van Roost is a multidisciplinary artist who has developed a form of public art based on the active participation of residents of the neighborhood. Nicknamed “la fée du Mile End”, Patsy has recently produced a series of works such as “La petite fille aux alumettes”, “La mer dans le […]
Lecture: ICI un souvenir – Patsy Van Roost
1 by Sarah Gilbert – first published June 30, 2010 At the north edge of Mile End a web of footpaths leads to the railroad tracks. If you follow the paths to the chain link fence there’s a hole, and if you step through that, you end up someplace else. It’s […]
Mile End Line
4 The first part of the area in which farms were joined by a hamlet was at the intersection of what are now Mont-Royal and Henri-Julien avenues. It was known as the Tannéries des Bélair, named for the family that first lived there. Jean-Louis Plessis dit Bélair was born in 1678 […]
Chapter 2: From the Bélair Tannery to Côte-Saint-Louis Village
from Coteau Saint-Louis to the lively urban village of today Lecture by Justin Bur Coteau Saint-Louis, Mile End, Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, Laurier, the North End, Saint-Louis, and once again Mile End: the area on either side of Saint-Laurent Blvd., starting from a mile beyond the big hill below Sherbrooke St., has borne […]
Lecture: 200 Years of Mile End History
Are you proud of your garden? An odd question to ask in the middle of winter, but Mile End Memories, the neighbourhood historical and cultural group, is planning something new for its highly popular “Hidden Gardens” tour in 2014. We are asking people whose backyards contain botanical and landscaping treasures […]
Attention green thumbs and budding gardeners!
1 Sarah Gilbert has lived in Mile End for more than 20 years. From 2008-2011, she wrote a blog, Mile Endings, in which she memorialized certain neighbourhood personalities and institutions before they were swept away by time. We find them to be written with a particular sensibility and a keen sense of […]
Hats off to Mr. Shinder!
Chapter 1: Rural Mile End A magnificent forest? The early days of Mile End are still poorly known. In 1891, the Lovell’s directory published a promotional guide using data from the then recently completed census. In addition to articles on Montreal, the book presented brief portrayals of the outlying villages. […]
1: Rural Mile End
With this article, Mile End Memories begins publication of an essay on the history of the neighbourhood, written by Yves Desjardins. During the next few months, we will be posting the various chapters on line. Even if the neighbourhood has been the subject of many articles and studies, until now, […]
Mile End History: Prologue
After several months of work, Mile End Memories launched a redesigned web site at the end of 2013. We are happy with the result and hope you have had a chance to expore it. Our main ambition with this site is to create a reference on the history, heritage and […]