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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 […]

Walking Tours 2018

2018-05-12 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

In Montreal imagery, the Mile End neighbourhood is constantly in transition. Several different immigrant communities each contributed to the district’s transformation. The 1960s and 1970s was the time when newly arrived Greek immigrants left their mark. This panel will present a joint effort of a McGill University history department seminar […]

A chapter of neighbourhood history: Mile End of the Greeks

2018-04-04 in News and Activities / Talks by Joshua Wolfe

For decades, garment factories helped define the identity of Mile End. At its peak, this sector employed tens of thousands of people. However, the industry declined very rapidly during the 1980s and 1990s because of globalization. But since then, a new generation of designers, anxious to create clothes produced in […]

Made in Mile End / Fabriqué au Mile End

2018-03-11 in News and Activities / Talks by Joshua Wolfe

The Mile End Cultural Scene of the 1990s Talk by Louis Rastelli During the 1990s, a new generation of independent musicians and artists moved into the lofts of Mile End’s old warehouses and garment factories. At the time, the neighbourhood was perfect for the artists’ life: living costs were low, […]

The Mile End Cultural Scene of the 1990s

2018-02-03 in News and Activities / Talks by Joshua Wolfe

Dictionnaire historique du Plateau Mont-Royal — Dictionnaire historique du Plateau Mont-Royal: spaces and themes The architecture of the Dictionnaire historique du Plateau Mont-Royal, its spaces and themes. How is such a work constructed? Come join several of the authors in a discussion. Justin Bur, Mile End Memories; Jean-Claude Robert, UQAM Professor Emeritus of History; and Bernard Vallée, Montréal Explorations […]

Dictionnaire historique du Plateau Mont-Royal: spaces and themes

2018-01-13 in News and Activities / Talks by Joshua Wolfe

Gentriville: an interactive experience on gentrification Gentriville is an interactive fiction designed by Marie Sterlin and Emmanuelle Walter. The two creators will present their project and share with us the results of their research and their thoughts in order to begin a shared discussion on the gentrification phenomenon which affects Mile […]

Gentriville: an interactive experience on gentrification

2017-11-23 in News and Activities / Talks by Joshua Wolfe

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(Français) « Nommer un lieu, c’est se l’approprier » : la ...

2017-11-04 in News and Activities / Historical Capsules / Talks tagged 1955–1982 by Yves Desjardins

Saint-Laurent & Bernard — Saint-Laurent Boulevard, key player in Mile End’s history Talk by Yves Desjardins Saint-Lawrence Boulevard, the Main, has been at the heart of Montreal’s identity for three centuries. Historic corridor of immigration to Canada, nightlife capital during the time of Burlesque, Yiddish Theatre and the Red Light District, centre of the […]

Talk: Saint-Laurent Boulevard, key player in Mile End’s history

2017-11-03 in News and Activities / Talks by Joshua Wolfe

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(Français) Viaduc 375 – Promenade piétonne sur le viaduc Rosemont-Van ...

2017-10-20 in News and Activities by Yves Desjardins

The Laboratoire d’histoire et de patrimoine de Montréal, Fédération Histoire Québec and the Archives of the City of Montréal are organizing a forum about the neighborhood history of Montreal, called “Découvrir le métropole sur ses quartiers”. Thursday 26 October – Saturday 28 October, 2017 Cœur des Sciences de l’UQAM, 175 […]

Découvrir le métropole par ses quartiers

2017-10-15 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

The Rosemont–Van Horne Overpass and the reappropriation of urban space The Rosemont–Van Horne overpass, constructed 1970–72 at the time when the car was king, has left a huge scar on the urban fabric of the Mile End and Petite-Patrie neighbourhoods. But the abandoned industrial areas around it have, over the […]

The overpass: what next?

2017-09-07 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Mile End Memories is proud to be one of the partners in Viaduc 375, a new experience offered to Montrealers and visitors as part of Montreal’s 375th anniversary celebrations. Each day from 3 to 8 October, we will be offering free walking tours to discover the rich history and heritage […]

Viaduc 375 – pedestrian promenade on the Van Horne overpass, ...

2017-07-25 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Yves Desjardins

A book launch was held on Thursday 18 May 2017 at the Mordecai-Richler Mile End Library for Histoire du Mile End by Yves Desjardins, published by Septentrion. Here are a few pictures of the event, with our thanks to the photographers, Nano Ruz and Harold Rosenberg. […]

Book Launch: Histoire du Mile End

2017-05-21 in News and Activities by Yves Desjardins

25 walking tours to discover the history of the Plateau-Mont-Royal, 14 May–29 October 2017 The Société d’histoire du Plateau-Mont-Royal and Mile End Memories invite Plateau residents, Montrealers and tourists to discover the history and heritage of the Plateau. A program of 25 walking tours will allow you to discover the places, events and communities that built and that […]

Promenades sur le Plateau : histoires et cultures

2017-04-22 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Park Avenue has undergone many transformations over time: a prestigious residential address reserved for large bourgeois residences, the main street of the Montreal Jewish and Greek communities, a high-traffic artery… It has been repeatedly condemned – some have predicted that it would become an urban desert – but has shown […]

Jane’s Walk: Park Avenue’s Many Faces

2017-04-21 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Historically, Mile End was the heart of the Montreal Jewish community. Just think of the famous bagel bakeries, Wilensky’s, or the works of Mordecai Richler. But what about its contemporary Jewish identity? Many people think immediately of the Hasidic community, highly visible in the streets of the neighbourhood and adjacent […]

Panel: Contemporary Jewish Identites in Mile End

2017-04-21 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

During the night of 8 April 1973, a huge fire gutted a run-down rooming house on Park Avenue causing the death of eight people. The inquiry revealed that the tragedy was far from accidental: the building had been allowed to turn into a firetrap and the actual owners were hiding […]

Talk: A Forgotten Tragedy – the arson fire of 1973 ...

2017-03-17 in News and Activities / Talks by Yves Desjardins

From Mile-Ex to Marconi-Alexandra Back to the future Marconi-Alexandra is a district with a unique character: a mixture of various land uses, surrounded by railway infrastructure, its history little known. Comprised of history buffs and residents active in the neighbourhood, our panel will explore issues related to this changing area located north […]

Discussion: From Mile-Ex to Marconi-Alexandra

2017-01-26 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur