Partners’ Activities

Both created thanks to community mobilization, the Champ des Possibles and the Parc des Gorilles are green spaces occupying former railway wastelands. They are connected by the Parc linéaire du Réseau-Vert, an unfinished project inaugurated in 1994. During this walk, led by members of The Main and Mile End Memories […]

Champ des Possibles and Parc des Gorilles

2025-08-22 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Walking Tours by Mémoire du Mile End

In collaboration with Mile End Memories, the SDC Laurier West, the City of Montréal and the boutique Ombres et couleurs – Benjamin Moore, the mural Les Portes du Temps was created by artists AnkhOne & Nicole Boyce in spring 2024. The mural stems from an artistic and symbolic concept. As […]

Mural Les portes du temps

2024-06-22 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

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

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

On February 17, 2017, the roof of the building at the northeast corner of Laurier Avenue and Esplanade collapsed, a victim of several years of neglect. Due to the extent of the damage, the City of Montreal ordered its demolition, taking with it an important witness of the Jewish period […]

A Balcony under Threat in Balconville

2017-02-18 in Partners’ Activities / Historical Capsules tagged 1921–1955 / 1955–1982 by Yves Desjardins

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

[November 2014] On September 29, 2013, during the Journées de la culture, Mile End Memories held a Human Library event in collaboration with the Mile End Library. Here are some of the impressions and reactions of participants in the 2013 Human Library, as collected by Mistaya Hemingway. You can also […]

Mile End Human Library, 2013

2013-09-25 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Yves Desjardins

Tuesday 21 May – History and Evolution of Italian Immigration in Montreal Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard amisboulevardstlaurent.com Lecture (in French) presented by Bruno Ramirez, historian specializing in the history of North American immigration, professor at Université de Montréal Followed by the Annual General Meeting of Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard Café Conca d’Oro, […]

Partners’ activities – lectures

2013-05-20 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

Mile End Memories has the pleasure of passing on this announcement from our honorary member Atigh Ould. The Nomad Festivals bring together nomads from all over the world with events in Montreal and Mauritania. This is a tribute to nomadic culture, with music, film screenings, camel race, vernissage, panel discussions, […]

Nomad Festival 2011

2011-11-13 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Justin Bur

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 ...

2011-09-21 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Talks by Justin Bur

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

2010-10-15 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities / Talks by Susan Bronson

Bonjour à tous et à toutes. Les choses bougent dans notre quartier ! Ci-dessous vous trouverez les annonces de quatre activités dans le Mile End cette semaine qui sont organisées par quelques uns de nos partenaires. Mémoire du Mile End (mile-end.qc.ca) P.S. Notre prochaine visite à pied, du Mile End […]

Activities in Mile End

2010-05-17 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

La Khaïma: la tente du Mile End

2010-04-16 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Mémoire du Mile End

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

2010-03-12 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Susan Bronson

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!

2009-03-06 in Partners’ Activities / News and Activities by Susan Bronson