The original version of this article can be read here : https://mileendings.blogspot.com/2011/05/urban-barnacles.html
News and Activities
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(Français) Lancement de L’avenue du Parc et son histoire
2 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 ...
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
Walking tour (in French) Sunday June 4, 2023, 1:00 p.m. See description in French.
Walking Tour: The Transformation of Mile End East
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 ...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Walking tour: Mile End then and now
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(Français) Conférence : L’avenue du Parc à travers le temps
1 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
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(Français) Histoire et défense du patrimoine : archives citoyennes
1 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
2 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
Our first walking tour of 2021 will be held in French on Sunday, 1 August at 1 pm. Please see here for description and details, including the link for registration (required). English version: From its early days as a small, rural, French-Canadian village, through its era as the heart and […]
Walking Tour: Citizen action in Mile End
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(Français) Nos prochaines conférences, hiver-printemps 2020
Presentation Queer Mile End: Production of another LGBTQ+ neighbourhood The recent creation of queer neighbourhoods outside of traditional gay villages suggest changes among LGBTQ+ generations and urban species in central cities. Based on a series of interviews among LGBTQ+ youth living in Mile-End in 2013, this presentation explores the process in […]