News and Activities

AnkhOne & Nicole Boyce — In collaboration with Mile End Memories, the SDC Laurier West, the City of Montréal and the boutique Ombres et couleurs – Benjamin Moore, the mural Les Portes du Temps was created by artists AnkhOne & Nicole Boyce in spring 2024. The mural stems from an artistic and symbolic concept. As […]

Mural Les portes du temps

2024-06-22 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

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(Français) L’énoncé de l’intérêt patrimonial d’un lieu et le cas ...

2024-06-13 in Talks by Yves Desjardins

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

2024-05-23 in News and Activities by Justin Bur

The original version of this article can be read here : https://mileendings.blogspot.com/2011/05/urban-barnacles.html

Urban Barnacles

2024-02-25 in News and Activities / Mile End Portraits by Sarah Gilbert

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(Français) Lancement de L’avenue du Parc et son histoire

2023-10-28 in News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

The opening of this exhibition of Mile End photos from 1985 to 1995, organized as part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, was held at the Mordecai-Richler Library on Sunday, September 24. It runs until November 12. Here are a few photos of the event, taken by Gaëlle Engelberts.

Official opening of the exhibition Faces of Mile ...

2023-09-30 in News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

The photo exhibition “Faces of Mile End Revisited”, on the occasion of Mile End Memories’ 20th anniversary, opens soon! It will be held from 11 September to 12 November at the Mordecai-Richler Library, 5434 avenue du Parc, and in the adjacent Mile End Park. Free admission. A few complementary activities: […]

Exhibition: Faces of Mile End Revisited

2023-06-04 in News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

Walking tour (in French) Sunday June 4, 2023, 1:00 p.m. See description in French.

Walking Tour: The Transformation of Mile End East

2023-05-24 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

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 ...

2023-04-11 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Our bodies, our choices, our rights The Montreal Women’s Health Centre (in French) Sunday March 5, 2023, 2 p.m. The result of a long battle and decades of mobilization, the fight for free access to abortion and contraception remains one of the most important struggles of the feminist movement. This […]

Talk: The Montreal Women’s Health Centre

2023-02-20 in News and Activities / Talks by Mémoire du Mile End

Guilbault’s Zoo and Gardens: “The largest, most novel and most varied exhibition in the world!” Talk by Bernard Vallée Sunday 12 February at 2 pm Recent road work on Pine Avenue uncovered archaeological remains of a once-famous zoo. Come hear Bernard Vallée, well-known housing activist and defender of the Plateau’s […]

Talk: Guilbault’s Zoo and Gardens

2023-02-01 in News and Activities / Talks by Mémoire du Mile End

Le long chemin aux urnes : la lutte pour le droit des femmes au Québec Talk by Melanie Leavitt, Sunday 11 December On the occasion of the centenary of the women’s march to the Quebec Parliament for voting rights, we will examine the history of the women who waged a […]

Talk : Le long chemin aux urnes

2022-11-29 in News and Activities / Talks by Mémoire du Mile End

Le Châtelet, a century of history: from mansion to housing co-op Sunday November 27, 2:00 p.m. On Park Avenue, just north of Fairmount, there is a rare example still standing of a Belle Époque mansion – from the time when the avenue was a prestigious residential address. The house and […]

Talk: Le Châtelet

2022-11-17 in News and Activities / Talks by Mémoire du Mile End

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

2022-09-27 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

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

2022-08-29 in News and Activities / Historical Capsules / Talks by Justin Bur

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Walking tour: Mile End then and now

2022-07-09 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

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(Français) Conférence : L’avenue du Parc à travers le temps

2022-03-23 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

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

2022-03-01 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

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(Français) Histoire et défense du patrimoine : archives citoyennes

2022-01-30 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

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

2021-10-28 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

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

2021-09-10 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur