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Yearly Archives: 2025
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(Français) Un bâtisseur de l’Annexe : Robert Neville
Both created thanks to community mobilization, the Champ des Possibles and the Parc des Gorilles are green spaces occupying former railway wastelands. They are connected by the Parc linéaire du Réseau-Vert, an unfinished project inaugurated in 1994. During this walk, led by members of The Main and Mile End Memories […]
Champ des Possibles and Parc des Gorilles
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(Français) Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus – visite et conférence – Journées du patrimoine ...
1 In collaboration with the Société de développement du Boulevard Saint-Laurent, The Main and Mile End Memories presents a series of historical walks. Three guides, three different approaches to explore the boulevard’s history, architecture and cultural richness. They will take place on seven Friday mornings, from 11 July to 22 August […]
Historical Walks on The Main 2025
Free walking tour in collaboration with Amis du Champ des Possibles Sunday, June 22, 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 ...
1 Urban Agriculture in Mile End: Past and Present (bilingual tour) Unearth the hidden history of urban agriculture in Mile End! Come along on a unique two-hour walking tour through over 150 years of agricultural transformation in Mile End—from its 19th-century rural roots to today’s cutting-edge urban farming initiatives. Along the […]
Two walking tours on natural heritage
Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church at the centre of Lahaie Park is a neighborhood landmark, the first and largest place of worship in Mile End. The church is exceptional for its architecture unique in Québec and for the architects and artists who designed and decorated it. It stimulated and accompanied the urbanization of […]
Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church : tour of the interior and the urban ...
Talk by Jacques Desjardins Mile End was the historical birthplace of the fight for alternative transportation in Quebec. Le Monde à bicyclette (Citizens on Cycles as it was originally called) was the first ecological cyclists’ group in Canada. From its founding in 1975, its street theatre events quickly attracted the […]
Reinventing the city! The story of the Monde à Bicyclette
The latest bulletin [December 2024] of the Société d’histoire du Plateau-Mont-Royal (our sister organization) focuses on historic, cultural and heritage aspects of people of Jewish origin living in the borough. It was guest-edited by two members of Mile End Memories. Our next activity will be a roundtable discussion by some […]