News and Activities

The Marché des Possibles, Mile End’s summer gathering place, is back for a second year! The market is produced by POP Montréal in collaboration with the Arrondissement du Plateau Mont-Royal. Mile End Memories will be there with an information table, interactive activities, and of course walking tours of the neighborhood. The market takes place each Friday, […]

History at the Marché des Possibles, 2015 edition

2015-06-21 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Talks / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

We’re happy to announce that our very popular literary walking tour will be back, Sunday, June 7. Meet us at parc Lahaie, in front of the Saint-Enfant-Jésus Church, 11 am. Voluntary Contribution. Meanwhile, you can read this account of our first tour. _______________________________________________ A popular event On April 25, 2015, […]

Mile End Historical and Literary Tour

2015-05-04 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

le Champ des Possibles — An unconventional experiment in citizen management of a former industrial site In collaboration with Friends of the Champ des Possibles In May 2013, the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough delegated management of a former industrial site to a citizens’ group, Friends of the Champ des Possibles. Thus was protected a green space in the […]

Discussion: The Champ des Possibles

2015-04-07 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Talk by Yves Desjardins All through the 19th century and into the beginning of the 20th, the area of Mile End was riven with limestone quarries like so much Swiss cheese. They had an important impact on the urban form of the area which can still be perceived today. These quarries […]

Talk: The Pieds-Noirs of the Quarries

2015-02-06 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Talk by Jean-Claude Robert Professor Emeritus, Department of History, UQAM See Jean-Claude Robert’s article on this topic What is a neighbourhood? A part of the city, of course, but it’s not just a geographic area; it can also be the product of a series of communities in time, sources of multiple […]

Talk: Historic identity of the Plateau Mont-Royal

2015-01-19 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Talk by Justin Bur If you find it’s frustratingly difficult to get new public transit lines built in Montreal, take heart: 150 years ago, it was just as difficult, maybe worse. Even along Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Mile End’s main street, transit was a complex problem. Over the years, omnibus, horse-drawn streetcar, […]

Talk: The origins of public transit in Mile End

2014-12-05 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

The influence of Jewish Romanian cuisine in Montreal – talk by Joshua Wolfe Much of what Montrealers think of as typical Jewish cooking – smoked meat, brine pickles, steak spices – shows a strong Romanian influence. Joshua Wolfe’s grandparents all immigrated from Romania before the First World War and ended up […]

Talk: My grandmother’s restaurant

2014-11-09 in News and Activities / Talks by Yves Desjardins

Dessin du livre vivant par Michel Hellman — Once again, Mile End Memories and the Mile End library are pleased to be partners in a “Human Library” event, which will be held on Sunday March 22, 2015. The event will give you the chance to meet and talk to neighbourhood residents with fascinating stories to tell. The first […]

A new edition of the Mile End Human Library!

2014-11-03 in News and Activities / Talks by Yves Desjardins

Lecture by Yves Desjardins and Claudine Schirardin Since 1982, the Mile End Citizens Committee has worked to maintain quality of life in the face of constant change and to develop the sense of neighborhood identity. There are many accomplishments to its credit, such as the preservation of the Rialto Theatre, […]

Citizen Activism in Mile End

2014-10-03 in News and Activities / Talks by Yves Desjardins

A Microcosm of the 20th Century: The Ukrainian National Federation building Cultural tour led by Joshua Wolfe and Mistaya Hemingway Church, synagogue, community centre or concert hall? The building at Fairmount and Hutchison is one of several in Mile End that have housed a succession of different communities over the […]

A Microcosm of the 20th Century

2014-09-06 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Walking tour led by Yves Desjardins The west of Mile End is the fruit of the unlikely encounter between a French-Canadian artisans’ village, a new suburb at the turn of the 20th century marketed mainly to the English-speaking middle class, and the heart of Montreal’s Jewish life between the wars. […]

Walking Tour: The Crossroads of Three Cultures

2014-09-06 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Yves Desjardins

Walking tour led by Joshua Wolfe and Michèle Pontbriand Once again, Mile End Memories invites you to discover some of the neighbourhood’s special gardens. From an oasis sprouting on a cement pad, to a garden on the site of an old horse stable, from a fictive garden to one for honey bees, you […]

Surprising Gardens of Mile End

2014-07-28 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

The Marché des Possibles, Mile End’s new favorite gathering place, is a pilot project produced by POP Montréal in collaboration with the Arrondissement du Plateau Mont-Royal. Mile End Memories will be there with an information table, some short lectures, and of course walking tours of the neighborhood. The market takes […]

History at the Marché des Possibles

2014-07-07 in News and Activities / Talks / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

All are welcome to Mile End Memories’ annual general meeting. Friday 16 May 2014, 5 pm Restaurant La Khaïma, 142 Fairmount Av. W. Documents for the meeting will be posted here shortly.

Annual General Meeting, 16 May 2014

2014-05-10 in News and Activities by Justin Bur

Saturday 17 May – railway landscape, industrial remains Mile End’s Railway Landscape, walking tour led by Justin Bur, urban planning graduate The industrial sector of Mile End is undergoing constant change and is targeted for redevelopment. This walk will follow the trail of clues about the buildings and activities that filled […]

Railway Landscape – À l’aube des restes industriels

2014-05-09 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Our last indoor activity of the season at the Mile End library: Artistes indépendants et producteurs culturels du Mile End, quelle cohabitation? will be held on Sunday 13 April at 2 pm. This round table will surely result in a compelling debate, because of the members of the panel and the questions […]

Round table: Artistes indépendants et producteurs culturels du Mile End, ...

2014-04-04 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Church, synagogue, or community centre? The building at Fairmount and Hutchison is one of several in Mile End that have housed a succession of different communities over the years. This tour will explore both the interior and exterior, to discover how the various layers of its transformation are still visible, […]

Tour of the Ukrainian National Federation

2014-03-20 in News and Activities / Walking Tours by Justin Bur

Patsy Van Roost is a multidisciplinary artist who has developed a form of public art based on the active participation of residents of the neighborhood. Nicknamed “la fée du Mile End”, Patsy has recently produced a series of works such as “La petite fille aux alumettes”, “La mer dans le […]

Lecture: ICI un souvenir – Patsy Van Roost

2014-02-27 in News and Activities / Talks by Yves Desjardins

from Coteau Saint-Louis to the lively urban village of today Lecture by Justin Bur Coteau Saint-Louis, Mile End, Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, Laurier, the North End, Saint-Louis, and once again Mile End: the area on either side of Saint-Laurent Blvd., starting from a mile beyond the big hill below Sherbrooke St., has borne […]

Lecture: 200 Years of Mile End History

2014-02-11 in News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Are you proud of your garden? An odd question to ask in the middle of winter, but Mile End Memories, the neighbourhood historical and cultural group, is planning something new for its highly popular “Hidden Gardens” tour in 2014. We are asking people whose backyards contain botanical and landscaping treasures […]

Attention green thumbs and budding gardeners!

2014-02-01 in News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

After several months of work, Mile End Memories launched a redesigned web site at the end of 2013. We are happy with the result and hope you have had a chance to expore it. Our main ambition with this site is to create a reference on the history, heritage and […]

Our upcoming publications

2014-01-03 in News and Activities by Yves Desjardins