Yearly Archives: 2024

Just what does working-class housing mean? There is a tendency to call anything built before the 1930s a “working-class neighborhood”. But the rowhouses of Montreal’s older neighbourhoods reveal a diversity of forms, and a wide variety of façade treatments and ornamentation. In more recently built neighborhoods, row housing gave way […]

Talk: History of working-class housing in Montreal

2024-11-03 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

5060 Saint-Laurent Boulevard At the beginning of the 20th century, Saint-Louis town council worked to set up a prestigious municipal centre around Lahaie Park. Saint-Enfant Jésus church was enlarged with a new façade in 1903; Saint-Joseph Boulevard, an upscale residential artery, was inaugurated in 1905; after the widening of Saint-Laurent […]

Mile End Branch, Merchants Bank

2024-09-28 in Historical Map by Mémoire du Mile End

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(Français) Boulangerie Médard Paquette / Théâtre ESPACE GO

2024-09-28 in Historical Map by Mémoire du Mile End

(Français) Succursale Saint-Laurent de la Banque de Montréal

2024-09-27 in Historical Map by Mémoire du Mile End

Free walking tour in collaboration with Amis du Champ des Possibles Sunday, August 25, 1:30 p.m. Initially a forest of cedar trees, next a stone quarry, a dump, and then a railway yard. Discover the history of the Champ des Possibles. The site currently occupied by the Champ des Possibles […]

Before the Champ des Possibles: The transformation of an industrial ...

2024-08-09 in News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

In collaboration with Mile End Memories, the SDC Laurier West, the City of Montréal and the boutique Ombres et couleurs – Benjamin Moore, the mural Les Portes du Temps was created by artists AnkhOne & Nicole Boyce in spring 2024. The mural stems from an artistic and symbolic concept. As […]

Mural Les portes du temps

2024-06-22 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

(Français) L’énoncé de l’intérêt patrimonial d’un lieu et le cas ...

2024-06-13 in Talks by Yves Desjardins

(Français) Les maisons Lorge

2024-06-13 in Historical Map by Mémoire du Mile End

We’re pleased to invite members and friends of Mile End Memories to our annual general meeting, which will be held Saturday 1 June 2024 at La Khaïma restaurant, 142 Fairmount Av. W., starting at 4 pm. Apart from presenting the annual report of activities, we will be voting on a […]