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 […]
Justin Bur
1 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
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 […]
General Meeting 2024 – Amalgamation with Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard
A summary of the physical and human geography of Mile End in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries Sunday 23 April 2023, 2 pm There are a few fragmentary indications of First Nations presence. We have a good idea of the geology of the plateau on the east side of […]
Talk: Mile End Before Urbanization – streams and roads, tanneries and ...
Saturday, October 1, 2:00 p.m. Space available in English tour In this two-hour tour we’ll stroll along many of the streets of the neighbourhood to discover some of the places and themes that inspired several Montreal writers during the 20th and 21st centuries. We’ll read excerpts – some in their […]
Mile End Literary Tour 2022
Mile End Memories is reviving the old Mile End railway station, demolished in 1970, with a video made using 3D computer models of the lost buildings. Full version (16 min) showing the evolution of the site through time, from 1876 to today. Short version (4 min) Presentation of the […]
Mile End Station
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Walking tour: Mile End then and now
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(Français) Conférence : L’avenue du Parc à travers le temps
1 In 1915, St. Michael’s church in Mile End could boast that it was the largest English-speaking Catholic parish in the city of Montreal. Over the next few decades, that population moved away to other parts of the city. St. Michael’s merged with a Polish mission in 1969 and today, people […]
Talk: In search of Irish Mile End
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(Français) Histoire et défense du patrimoine : archives citoyennes
1 In 1915, St. Michael’s church in Mile End could boast that it was the largest English-speaking Catholic parish in the city of Montreal. Over the next few decades, that population moved away to other parts of the city. St. Michael’s merged with a Polish mission in 1969 and today, people […]
Walking tour: In search of Irish Mile End
2 In this two-hour tour we’ll stroll along many of the streets of the neighbourhood to discover some of the places and themes that inspired several Montreal writers during the 20th and 21st centuries. We’ll read excerpts – some in their original languages, some in translation. The tour is being offered […]
Mile End Literary Tour 2021
Presentation Queer Mile End: Production of another LGBTQ+ neighbourhood The recent creation of queer neighbourhoods outside of traditional gay villages suggest changes among LGBTQ+ generations and urban species in central cities. Based on a series of interviews among LGBTQ+ youth living in Mile-End in 2013, this presentation explores the process in […]
Presentation: Queer Mile End
The Landscapes of Mile End Sunday November 3, 2 p.m. (Standard time) Mile End has a rich history. Recognized as a district of heritage interest by the City, it bears witness to Montreal’s cultural diversity and urban development triggered by 19th-century industrialization. It is culturally and socially dynamic and is […]
Presentation: The Landscapes of Mile End
Contemporary Jewish Mile End from World War II to today Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 – 2:30 pm This tour will present a lesser known aspect of Mile End. The largest Jewish neighbourhood in Montreal before World War II, it changed from the 1940s onward as various Hassidic Jewish communities moved […]
Walking tour: Contemporary Jewish Mile End
Family archives: their contributions to history and challenges of conservation in French Sunday 6 October 2019, 2 pm Bibliothèque Mordecai-Richler 5434 Park Avenue ** Please note that the multipurpose room upstairs, where the activity takes place, will be open as usual. Only the adult section of the library, downstairs, is closed. ** […]
Presentation – Family Archives
2 Update 2019-09-23: Photos from the event. Join us for the launch of a book that celebrates Mile End diversity! Mile End Memories, the local history group, joined with two local graphic artists, Michel Hellman and Pascal Girard, to produce a richly illustrated book linking the history of the neighborhood to […]
Book launch: Mile End Portraits
Mile End Memories is offering eight walking tours in the neighbourhood this year, on Sunday afternoons (and a couple of Saturdays) at 2 pm, between 16 June and 13 October. Reservations not required. A voluntary contribution ($10 suggested) would be appreciated, to support the organization’s programs. Sunday 13 October – […]
Walking Tours 2019
Mile End Memories, in collaboration with the Mordecai-Richler Library, presents a new version of its Historical and Literary Tour of Mile End during the Journées de la culture. Rediscover the neighbourhood with a walking tour featuring historical and literary references to places that have inspired many authors and artists. The walk, led […]
Journées de la culture 2018: Historical and Literary Tour
After the success in 2017 of the walking tour series Promenades sur le Plateau : histoires et cultures offered in collaboration with the Société d’histoire du Plateau Mont-Royal during the celebrations of the 375th anniversary of Montreal, Mile End Memories has the pleasure of offering most of the Mile End program […]
Walking Tours 2018
The Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal, Fédération Histoire Québec and the Archives of the City of Montréal are organizing a forum about the neighborhood history of Montreal, called “Découvrir le métropole sur ses quartiers”. Thursday 26 October – Saturday 28 October, 2017 Cœur des Sciences de l’UQAM, 175 […]