Mile End Memories invites you to its next activities: 1. WALKING TOUR: WESTERN MILE END Susan Bronson, architect and historian Discover the rich history of Western Mile End (between Hutchison Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard), including the 19th-century agricultural and industrial exhibition grounds and early 20th-century rowhousing, mixed-use buildings and places […]
Susan Bronson
Mile End Memories* and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard** invite you to their next joint activity: Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End Susan Bronson Discover the rich history of the built heritage of Saint-Laurent Boulevard between Mount Royal and Van Horne Avenues, as well as the many personalities who […]
Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End
Karen Herland, writer and educator Montreal’s Red Light District attracted people on both sides of the law who could exploit flexible definitions of morality and justice. However, prostitution was not limited to the intersection of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Sainte-Catherine Street. This lecture will take place in a building that housed one of Mile […]
Lecture: The Police Brothels of Mile End
Author Gail Scott** will explain how her writing is written in Mile End, with its layers of stories and people. She will talk about ghosts and the plurality of voices from everywhere in Mile End. She will talk about a “half-breed” grandfather and his French “gendarme” admirer in Mile End. And […]
The Obituary: A novel about Mile End’s ghosts
Mile End Memories wishes you happy holidays and a 2011 full of neighbourhood pleasures. See our preliminary program of activities for 2011 and the poster for our first activity of the year.
Happy Holidays!
Building Mile End, 1895-1910 Susan Bronson, architect & historian Mile End Memories** invites you to a presentation to mark the centenary of an important turning point in the history of our neighbourhood: the annexation, on 1 January 1910, of the Town of Saint Louis by the City of Montreal. This illustrated lecture will […]
Building Mile End, 1895-1910
The Construction and Demolition of a Mile End Parish : The Saint-Georges Community, 1908-1991 Jean-Benoît Bourdeau, architect specialized in heritage conservation This lecture tells the story of a Catholic community that has disappeared and a reflection on recognizing immaterial heritage of the site now occupied by the Lambert Closse School (on Bernard Street between Waverly and […]
Lecture: The Construction and Demolition of a Mile End Parish
TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MILE END MEMORIES: 1. The presentation on the Saint-Georges Church (on the site occupied by Lambert-Closse School until 1971) by Jean-Benoît Bourdeau and the projection of the 1972 film Tranquillement, pas vite (on its demolition) by Guy F. Côté, will take place on Sunday 7 November 2010, in the […]
Program change / Festival Nomade
FREE ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED BY MILE END MEMORIES AND FRIENDS OF SAINT-LAURENT BOULEVARD DURING OPAM (Opération patrimoine architectural de Montréal) 2010 AND JOURNÉES DE LA CULTURE 2010 Note: Each of these tours will be offered in English and in French (in separate groups). TOUR 1 Organizer(s) The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard […]
Free activities for OPAM/Journées de la culture 2010
Susan Bronson and others Discover the rich history of Western Mile End (between Hutchison Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard), including the 19th-century agricultural and industrial exhibition grounds and early 20th-century rowhousing, mixed-use buildings and places or worship, as well as the many personalities and cultural communities who helped to shape this […]
Walking Tour: Western Mile End
Mile End Memories* and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard** invite you to their next joint activity: Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End Susan Bronson and Justin Bur Discover the rich history of the built heritage of Saint-Laurent Boulevard between Mount Royal and Van Horne Avenues, as well as the […]
Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End
Offered by Mile End Memories and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard in collaboration with the Mile End Citizens’ Committee and Car-Free Mile End (Animated by Susan Bronson and others) Mile End’s Saint-Viateur East Sector (bordered by Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Laurier Avenue, Saint-Denis Street and the CP railway line) features three-storey rowhouses […]
From Rowhouses to Megastructures: Saint-Viateur East Sector
Justin Bur et Josée Laplace The industrial sector of Mile End is undergoing constant change and is targeted for redevelopment. This walk will follow the trail of clues about the buildings and activities that filled the area along the railway lines for three-quarters of a century, before they fell silent not so […]
Walking Tour: Mile End’s Railway Landscape
Mile End Memories* and Atigh Ould** invite you to our next activity: Savouring the Sahara: A Cultural and Gustatory Experience To celebrate the arrival of spring and the inauguration of his new Mauritanian grocery store Al-Boutik, Atigh will tell us all about the unique flavours of the Sahara, including desert salt, […]
Savouring the Sahara: A Cultural and Gustatory Experience
Justin Bur, M. Urb. Since its construction in 1876, the railway has influenced the development of Mile End. After participating in the conquest of the Laurentians and the Canadian West, the line through Mile End fostered an industrial corridor during the 20th century. The industrial landscape that remains today is at the […]
Lecture: Mile End’s Railway Landscape
Mile End Memories** invites you to two activities on Sunday 7 February 2010: 1. LECTURE The Mile End Library: A Successful Transformation of a Heritage Church Jean-Paul Simard, horticulture and heritage expert Constructed in 1904, this building was the home of the Ascension Church for almost nine decades. In 1993, it was transformed into a […]
Lecture: The Mile End Library / General Assembly
Happy holidays to you and yours. May your 2010 be filled with wonderful memories, both old and new, of the Mile End neighbourhood. Check the dates of our upcoming activities!
Happy Holidays!
JOIN US THIS WEEKEND IN THE DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION OF THE DIVERSE HERITAGE OF MILE END’S SAINT-VIATEUR EAST SECTOR (BORDERED BY SAINT-LAURENT BOULEVARD, THE RAILWAY LINE NEAR VAN HORNE AVENUE, SAINT-DENIS STREET AND LAURIER AVENUE), WITH ITS MEGASTRUCTURES, ITS RAILWAY LINE, ITS “FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES,” ITS ROWHOUSES, ITS CLOISTERED CONVENT […]
Discover the Saint-Viateur East Sector
WALKING TOUR IN ENGLISH: MILE END’S RESIDENTIAL HERITAGE Susan Bronson, architect and historian Download the poster as a PDF The group Mile End Memories** invites you to join us on a walk through the streets and lanes of Mile End. The tour will focus on rowhouses: the circumstances that influenced their […]
Mile End’s Residential Heritage
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount Royal to Van Horne (Walking tour, in French with interventions in English, in collaboration with Les Amis du boulevard Saint-Laurent) Learn about municipal politicians and owners who contributed to the construction and transformation of the section of Saint-Laurent Boulevard that was part of […]
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount ...
Walking tour : Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist Mile End Memories* and Slow Food Montreal** invite you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood. Date and time: Sunday 9 August 2009, 11 a.m.-1 […]