Upcoming Activities in 2019
Note: the calendar is subject to change. Usually, activities will be confirmed by an article on this web site, in an email newsletter (click here to subscribe), and on Facebook.
Talks at the Mordecai-Richler Library – fall series
Series of free talks, one Sunday per month at 2 pm. Presentations in French, bilingual question period
- Sunday 6 October, La conservation des documents familiaux, with Archives Passe-Mémoire
- Sunday 3 November, Les paysages du Mile End, with Nicole Valois, professor of landscape architecture, Université de Montréal
- Sunday 1 December, Queer Mile End, with Julie Podmore
Past Activities in 2019
Talks at the Mordecai-Richler Library – winter-spring series
Note: because of renovations at the Mordecai-Richler Mile End library, some events will be held at the Plateau-Mont-Royal library, 465 av. du Mont-Royal Est, opposite Mont-Royal metro station.
Series of free talks, one Sunday per month at 2 pm. Presentations in French, bilingual question period
- Sunday 27 January, Mordecai-Richler library : L’évolution des commerces du Mile End. Talk by Justin Bur
- Thursday 21 February, Plateau-Mont-Royal library : La famille Lionais, trois générations de promoteurs immobiliers. Talk by Justin Bur and Amélie Roy-Bergeron, for the Société d’histoire du Plateau-Mont-Royal
Sunday 10 March, Plateau-Mont-Royal library : À la recherche des femmes dans l’histoire du Mile End et du Plateau. Round table presented by Melanie Leavitt of Mile End Memories, with guests[cancelled]- Wednesday 17 April, 7:30 pm, 5442 6e Avenue (Rosemont) : Les Pieds-Noirs des carrières du Coteau Saint-Louis. Talk by Yves Desjardins, for the Société d’histoire Rosemont–Petite-Patrie
Walking Tours 2019
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.
- Sunday 16 June – Park Avenue – English and French
- Sunday 7 July – Mile End’s Religious Heritage – English and French
- Sunday 21 July – Le secteur Saint-Viateur Est – French
- Sunday 28 July – Tracés fondateurs 1: Le (vrai) chemin des carrières – French
- Sunday 11 August – Tracés fondateurs 2: La Main, de Montréal à Mile End* – French
- Sunday 25 August – Tracés fondateurs 3: L’avenue du Mont-Royal – French
- Saturday 28 September – Literary & Historic Tour of Mile End – English and French, part of the Journées de la culture
- Sunday 13 October – Contemporary Jewish Mile End – English and French
*More tours of Saint-Laurent Blvd. are offered by the Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard
Wondering what we’ve done previously? 2018 calendar – 2017 calendar – 2016 calendar – 2015 calendar
For previous years, consult our annual reports of activities (PDF, about 4 MB each).