Walking tour : Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist Mile End Memories** invites you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood. The walking tour will be followed by a special plant-based snack and […]
Susan Bronson
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount Royal to Van Horne (Walking tour, in French with interventions in English, offered by the Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Mile End Memories**) Meet municipal politicians and owners who contributed to the construction and transformation of the section of Saint-Laurent Boulevard that was part […]
The Voices of Mile End’s Main
“JANE’S WALK” (HONOURING URBAN ACTIVIST AND CRITIC JANE JACOBS)**: FROM ROWHOUSES TO MEGASTRUCTURES: SAINT VIATEUR EAST SECTOR Offered by Mile End Memories, Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Mile End Citizens’ Committee (Guides: Susan Bronson and others) This walk will focus on a unique sector of Mile End that is about to undergo […]
“JANE’S WALK”: FROM ROWHOUSES TO MEGASTRUCTURES: SAINT VIATEUR EAST SECTOR
Walking tour: Discover the Saint Viateur East Sector Susan Bronson Mile End Memories and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard** invite you to explore the Saint Viateur East Sector, bound by Laurier Avenue, Saint Laurent Boulevard, the CP railway line and Saint Denis Street. Discover the history of this unique urban vernacular landscape, […]
Walking tour: Discover the Saint Viateur East Sector
You are invited to participate in the last two CITIZENS’ CAFÉS on the development of Mile End’s Saint-Viateur East District. For the purposes of our discussions, this district is framed by the CPR tracks near Van Horne Avenue to the north, Saint-Laurent Boulevard(including the properties on both sides of the street) to the […]
REVITALIZING MILE END: LET’S IMAGINE WHAT OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD COULD BE!
You are invited to a reading-discussion of The Walkable City: From Haussmann’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs’ Streets and Beyond by Mary Soderstrom, who knows Mile End and Outremont well because she has lived, worked and shopped there for decades. Recently published by Véhicule Press, The Walkable City, a follow-up to Mary’s Green City: People, Nature […]