Mile End Memories* and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard** invite you to their next joint activity: Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End Susan Bronson and Justin Bur Discover the rich history of the built heritage of Saint-Laurent Boulevard between Mount Royal and Van Horne Avenues, as well as the […]
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Offered by Mile End Memories and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard in collaboration with the Mile End Citizens’ Committee and Car-Free Mile End (Animated by Susan Bronson and others) Mile End’s Saint-Viateur East Sector (bordered by Saint-Laurent Boulevard, Laurier Avenue, Saint-Denis Street and the CP railway line) features three-storey rowhouses […]
From Rowhouses to Megastructures: Saint-Viateur East Sector
Justin Bur et Josée Laplace 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 the area along the railway lines for three-quarters of a century, before they fell silent not so […]
Walking Tour: Mile End’s Railway Landscape
Mile End Memories* and Atigh Ould** invite you to our next activity: Savouring the Sahara: A Cultural and Gustatory Experience To celebrate the arrival of spring and the inauguration of his new Mauritanian grocery store Al-Boutik, Atigh will tell us all about the unique flavours of the Sahara, including desert salt, […]
Savouring the Sahara: A Cultural and Gustatory Experience
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
Happy holidays to you and yours. May your 2010 be filled with wonderful memories, both old and new, of the Mile End neighbourhood. Check the dates of our upcoming activities!
Happy Holidays!
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
JOIN US THIS WEEKEND IN THE DISCOVERY AND CELEBRATION OF THE DIVERSE HERITAGE OF MILE END’S SAINT-VIATEUR EAST SECTOR (BORDERED BY SAINT-LAURENT BOULEVARD, THE RAILWAY LINE NEAR VAN HORNE AVENUE, SAINT-DENIS STREET AND LAURIER AVENUE), WITH ITS MEGASTRUCTURES, ITS RAILWAY LINE, ITS “FIELD OF POSSIBILITIES,” ITS ROWHOUSES, ITS CLOISTERED CONVENT […]
Discover the Saint-Viateur East Sector
WALKING TOUR IN ENGLISH: MILE END’S RESIDENTIAL HERITAGE Susan Bronson, architect and historian Download the poster as a PDF The group Mile End Memories** invites you to join us on a walk through the streets and lanes of Mile End. The tour will focus on rowhouses: the circumstances that influenced their […]
Mile End’s Residential Heritage
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount Royal to Van Horne (Walking tour, in French with interventions in English, in collaboration with Les Amis du boulevard Saint-Laurent) Learn about municipal politicians and owners who contributed to the construction and transformation of the section of Saint-Laurent Boulevard that was part of […]
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount ...
Walking tour : Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist Mile End Memories* and Slow Food Montreal** invite you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood. Date and time: Sunday 9 August 2009, 11 a.m.-1 […]
Supplementary tour, Sunday 9 August 2009
Walking tour : Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants Lana Kim McGeary, herbalist Mile End Memories** invites you to discover the medicinal and edible plants found in the streets, lanes, vacant lots and gardens of the Mile End neighbourhood. The walking tour will be followed by a special plant-based snack and […]
Mile End’s Medicinal and Edible Plants
The Voices of Mile End’s Main: Saint-Laurent Boulevard from Mount Royal to Van Horne (Walking tour, in French with interventions in English, offered by the Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Mile End Memories**) Meet municipal politicians and owners who contributed to the construction and transformation of the section of Saint-Laurent Boulevard that was part […]
The Voices of Mile End’s Main
“JANE’S WALK” (HONOURING URBAN ACTIVIST AND CRITIC JANE JACOBS)**: FROM ROWHOUSES TO MEGASTRUCTURES: SAINT VIATEUR EAST SECTOR Offered by Mile End Memories, Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Mile End Citizens’ Committee (Guides: Susan Bronson and others) This walk will focus on a unique sector of Mile End that is about to undergo […]
“JANE’S WALK”: FROM ROWHOUSES TO MEGASTRUCTURES: SAINT VIATEUR EAST SECTOR
Walking tour: Discover the Saint Viateur East Sector Susan Bronson Mile End Memories and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard** invite you to explore the Saint Viateur East Sector, bound by Laurier Avenue, Saint Laurent Boulevard, the CP railway line and Saint Denis Street. Discover the history of this unique urban vernacular landscape, […]
Walking tour: Discover the Saint Viateur East Sector
You are invited to participate in the last two CITIZENS’ CAFÉS on the development of Mile End’s Saint-Viateur East District. For the purposes of our discussions, this district is framed by the CPR tracks near Van Horne Avenue to the north, Saint-Laurent Boulevard(including the properties on both sides of the street) to the […]
REVITALIZING MILE END: LET’S IMAGINE WHAT OUR NEIGHBOURHOOD COULD BE!
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 […]