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Yves Desjardins
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Mile End’s rebirth and its Citizens Movements
1 Lecture by Yves Desjardins and Claudine Schirardin Since 1982, the Mile End Citizens Committee has worked to maintain quality of life in the face of constant change and to develop the sense of neighborhood identity. There are many accomplishments to its credit, such as the preservation of the Rialto Theatre, […]
Citizen Activism in Mile End
Walking tour led by Yves Desjardins The west of Mile End is the fruit of the unlikely encounter between a French-Canadian artisans’ village, a new suburb at the turn of the 20th century marketed mainly to the English-speaking middle class, and the heart of Montreal’s Jewish life between the wars. […]
Walking Tour: The Crossroads of Three Cultures
We saw in the previous chapter that the Beaubien family contributed to the creation of a cluster of institutions around Saint-Enfant-Jésus church to allow the development of a village community in a previously almost uninhabited area. Building a railway station less than a kilometre away was the other major part […]
4.3 The Beaubien Family and the Mile End Train Station
Read the first part: Pierre Beaubien, Doctor and Landlord Second Part: A parish in the middle of nowhere The Institution for the Deaf became the first establishment in what was to become the parish centre and a growing village at Mile End. Created in 1848, the Institution was first located […]
4.2: The Beaubien Family and the Mile End Church
Chapter 4 – The Beaubien Family First part: Pierre Beaubien, Doctor and Landlord The map “Villages of Côte St. Louis, St. Louis du Mile End, Outremont and Côte des Neiges”, published in the Hopkins Atlas in1879shows clearly that just to the east of St. Lawrence Road, the Bagg family had […]
4.1: The Beaubien Family
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(Français) Chapitre 3, deuxième partie – Stanley Clark Bagg
2 Chapitre 3 – Mile End and its major landowners, part 1. The Bagg family and John Clark The Baggs and the Beaubiens. For several generations, these well-known Montreal families, one English-Canadian, the other French-Canadian, were major property holders and neighbours. They played an essential role in the transformation of a […]
3.1: John Clark, butcher, and Stanley Bagg, merchant
In November 2013, Patsy Van Roost created, with the support of the Plateau borough, ICI un souvenir (Here, a memory), a participative project intended to collect memories of people and events associated with places all over the Plateau Mont-Royal. The result was 437 handwritten yellow cards filled out. Patsy then installed […]
ICI un souvenir
Patsy Van Roost is a multidisciplinary artist who has developed a form of public art based on the active participation of residents of the neighborhood. Nicknamed “la fée du Mile End”, Patsy has recently produced a series of works such as “La petite fille aux alumettes”, “La mer dans le […]
Lecture: ICI un souvenir – Patsy Van Roost
4 The first part of the area in which farms were joined by a hamlet was at the intersection of what are now Mont-Royal and Henri-Julien avenues. It was known as the Tannéries des Bélair, named for the family that first lived there. Jean-Louis Plessis dit Bélair was born in 1678 […]
Chapter 2: From the Bélair Tannery to Côte-Saint-Louis Village
Chapter 1: Rural Mile End A magnificent forest? The early days of Mile End are still poorly known. In 1891, the Lovell’s directory published a promotional guide using data from the then recently completed census. In addition to articles on Montreal, the book presented brief portrayals of the outlying villages. […]
1: Rural Mile End
With this article, Mile End Memories begins publication of an essay on the history of the neighbourhood, written by Yves Desjardins. During the next few months, we will be posting the various chapters on line. Even if the neighbourhood has been the subject of many articles and studies, until now, […]
Mile End History: Prologue
After several months of work, Mile End Memories launched a redesigned web site at the end of 2013. We are happy with the result and hope you have had a chance to expore it. Our main ambition with this site is to create a reference on the history, heritage and […]
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(Français) Conférence : de la «Mile End Farm» à «Montreal ...
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(Français) L’action citoyenne dans le Mile End
How did this area get the name Mile End? A simple question, not so simple to answer! The question has been asked for decades, not only by local residents but also by various authors. Here are three articles that gradually converge towards an explanation. — The first was written in […]
The origins of Mile End
[November 2014] On September 29, 2013, during the Journées de la culture, Mile End Memories held a Human Library event in collaboration with the Mile End Library. Here are some of the impressions and reactions of participants in the 2013 Human Library, as collected by Mistaya Hemingway. You can also […]
Mile End Human Library, 2013
1 The Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s fame stems, in part, from the construction of prestigious grand hotels between 1888 and 1930 designed to attract affluent tourists to spectacular sites served by the railroad. Inspired by the castles of France’s Loire Valley, they became icons of the Canadian landscape, including Château Frontenac […]