News and Activities

book: Portraits du Mile End — Join us for the launch of a book that celebrates Mile End diversity! Mile End Memories, the local history group, joined with two local graphic artists, Michel Hellman and Pascal Girard, to produce a richly illustrated book linking the history of the neighborhood to present-day places: from a 19th-century country […]

Book launch: Mile End Portraits

2019-08-25 in News and Activities by Justin Bur

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. Reservations not required. A voluntary contribution ($10 suggested) would be appreciated, to support the organization’s programs. Saturday 28 September – […]

Walking Tours 2019

2019-07-06 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Tuesday, June 18, 2019 – 5:30 p.m. La Khaïma restaurant 142 Fairmount Av. West All our friends are welcome! Here is the proposed agenda: 1. Welcome, adoption of the agenda 2. Adoption of the minutes of the Annual General Meeting of October 28, 2018 3. Presentation of 2018 activity report and […]

Annual General Meeting 2018-19

2019-06-05 in News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

Théâtre Rialto et commerces, années 1970 — The Comité des citoyens du Mile End, Association des gens d’affaires du Mile End, and Mile End Memories are conducting a survey about residents’ opinions on and needs for retail shops. Click here to participate As with good neighbours, we’re never happy when a well-loved neighborhood business has to close. […]

Talk: The evolution of Mile End retail

2019-01-20 in News and Activities / Talks by Mémoire du Mile End

On Thursday 22 November 2018, Mile End Memories celebrated its 15th anniversary at the Rialto Theatre. We also took the opportunity to highlight the remarkable restoration of this Montreal heritage jewel, an important pole of the neighborhood cultural scene. Two “illustrators-in-residence”, Pascal Girard and Michel Hellman, sketched the proceedings during […]

Mile End Memories 15th anniversary celebration

2018-12-05 in News and Activities by Yves Desjardins

Mile End Memories will celebrate its 15th anniversary, Thursday, November 22, 2018, from 5 to 8 pm. The event will be held at Rialto Hall, 5711 Park Avenue. We will take this opportunity to highlight the restoration of the Rialto Theatre, a jewel of Montréal heritage and a key venue […]

Mile End Memories celebrates 15 years!

2018-11-11 in News and Activities by Yves Desjardins

Mile End Memories, in collaboration with the Mordecai-Richler Library, presents a new version of its Historical and Literary Tour of Mile End during the Journées de la culture. Rediscover the neighbourhood with a walking tour featuring historical and literary references to places that have inspired many authors and artists. The walk, led […]

Journées de la culture 2018: Historical and Literary Tour

2018-09-13 in News and Activities / Talks / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

After the success in 2017 of the walking tour series Promenades sur le Plateau : histoires et cultures offered in collaboration with the Société d’histoire du Plateau Mont-Royal during the celebrations of the 375th anniversary of Montreal, Mile End Memories has the pleasure of offering most of the Mile End program […]