Montreal’s ‘Other’ Women: Saint-Laurent Boulevard as a Gendered Space of Difference Lecture by Julie Podmore presented in collaboration with Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard. This presentation examines the role played by gender in construction of Saint- Laurent Boulevard as 20th-century Montreal’s ‘space of difference’. The ‘Main’ was a discursive axis through […]
Talks
Stanley Bagg’s Lost Horse and other stories of a founding family of Mile End Justin Bur, M.Urb. Two hundred years ago, Stanley Bagg’s Mile End Tavern was already open for business, serving the farmers and sportsmen on the north side of Mount Royal, about two miles from town. Who was […]
Lecture: Stanley Bagg’s Lost Horse
Lecture The Montreal Carmelite Garden its history, its symbolism, its value Jean-Paul Simard, gardener and art historian The monastery of the Carmelites of Montreal has been located in Mile End since 1896. This talk focuses on its garden: its origins, its symbolism, and its value as a historical garden. Also, […]
Lecture: The Carmelite Garden – Annual general meeting
Lecture and discussion Neighborhood culture: the attraction of today’s Mile End Norma Rantisi, geographer In discussion with Will Straw, director, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada Guillaume Éthier, musician and sociologist What attracts artists and creators to Mile End? Norma Rantisi has studied the link between the characteristics of […]
Neighborhood culture: the attraction of today’s Mile End
Lecture Yiddish Culture in Mile End Through the Years Chantal Ringuet, author and researcher What do we remember of Yiddish culture in Montreal? This talk will explore the cultural heritage of the Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jewish community in Mile End. Chantal Ringuet, researcher in Québécois literature, is the author of the […]
Yiddish Culture in Mile End
The Young Men’s Christian Association in Mile End a century ago Janis Zubalik, teacher and art historian In 1912, the North Branch of the Montreal Young Men’s Christian Association opened its doors at the corner of Park Avenue and St Viateur Street, in the bustling Mile End district. Next year, […]
Lecture: The YMCA in Mile End
A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MILE END MEMORIES: 1. The next activity of Mile End Memories will take place on Saturday 1 October 2011, as part of the Journées de la culture and the Montreal Architectural Heritage Campaign. Rialto Theatre Restoration Project Ezio Carosielli and Pierre Beaupré, architect The Rialto, a 1924 […]
Rialto (1/10) – À la track! (1/10) – Parc La ...
Karen Herland, writer and educator Montreal’s Red Light District attracted people on both sides of the law who could exploit flexible definitions of morality and justice. However, prostitution was not limited to the intersection of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Sainte-Catherine Street. This lecture will take place in a building that housed one of Mile […]
Lecture: The Police Brothels of Mile End
Author Gail Scott** will explain how her writing is written in Mile End, with its layers of stories and people. She will talk about ghosts and the plurality of voices from everywhere in Mile End. She will talk about a “half-breed” grandfather and his French “gendarme” admirer in Mile End. And […]
The Obituary: A novel about Mile End’s ghosts
Building Mile End, 1895-1910 Susan Bronson, architect & historian Mile End Memories** invites you to a presentation to mark the centenary of an important turning point in the history of our neighbourhood: the annexation, on 1 January 1910, of the Town of Saint Louis by the City of Montreal. This illustrated lecture will […]
Building Mile End, 1895-1910
The Construction and Demolition of a Mile End Parish : The Saint-Georges Community, 1908-1991 Jean-Benoît Bourdeau, architect specialized in heritage conservation This lecture tells the story of a Catholic community that has disappeared and a reflection on recognizing immaterial heritage of the site now occupied by the Lambert Closse School (on Bernard Street between Waverly and […]
Lecture: The Construction and Demolition of a Mile End Parish
TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM MILE END MEMORIES: 1. The presentation on the Saint-Georges Church (on the site occupied by Lambert-Closse School until 1971) by Jean-Benoît Bourdeau and the projection of the 1972 film Tranquillement, pas vite (on its demolition) by Guy F. Côté, will take place on Sunday 7 November 2010, in the […]
Program change / Festival Nomade
Justin Bur, M. Urb. Since its construction in 1876, the railway has influenced the development of Mile End. After participating in the conquest of the Laurentians and the Canadian West, the line through Mile End fostered an industrial corridor during the 20th century. The industrial landscape that remains today is at the […]
Lecture: Mile End’s Railway Landscape
Mile End Memories** invites you to two activities on Sunday 7 February 2010: 1. LECTURE The Mile End Library: A Successful Transformation of a Heritage Church Jean-Paul Simard, horticulture and heritage expert Constructed in 1904, this building was the home of the Ascension Church for almost nine decades. In 1993, it was transformed into a […]
Lecture: The Mile End Library / General Assembly
Tonight’s presentation is postponed for reasons beyond our control. You will receive a notice of the new date, along with the program of other activities for Winter 2010, shortly. Thank you for your understanding, Mile End Memories, 2 December 2009 Susan Bronson, architect & historian This lecture will mark the […]
Lecture POSTPONED: Building Mile End, 1895-1910
You are invited to a reading-discussion of The Walkable City: From Haussmann’s Boulevards to Jane Jacobs’ Streets and Beyond by Mary Soderstrom, who knows Mile End and Outremont well because she has lived, worked and shopped there for decades. Recently published by Véhicule Press, The Walkable City, a follow-up to Mary’s Green City: People, Nature […]