Usually it’s “rain or shine”, but the downpour on 12 June was a bit too much. We’ll try to schedule an alternate date in the next few weeks. Justin Bur Discover the rich history of Eastern Mile End (between Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Saint-Denis Street, Mount Royal Avenue and Saint-Viateur Street). […]
Walking Tours
Mile End Memories invites you to its next activities: 1. WALKING TOUR: WESTERN MILE END Susan Bronson, architect and historian Discover the rich history of Western Mile End (between Hutchison Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard), including the 19th-century agricultural and industrial exhibition grounds and early 20th-century rowhousing, mixed-use buildings and places […]
Walking Tour: Western Mile End – and Annual General Meeting
Offered by Mile End Memories and The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard as one of the Jane’s Walks** Led by Justin Bur 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 beside 12-storey megastructures and a wild meadow occupying a former […]
From Rowhouses to Megastructures: the Saint-Viateur East Sector
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 Discover the rich history of the built heritage of Saint-Laurent Boulevard between Mount Royal and Van Horne Avenues, as well as the many personalities who […]
Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End
FREE ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED BY MILE END MEMORIES AND FRIENDS OF SAINT-LAURENT BOULEVARD DURING OPAM (Opération patrimoine architectural de Montréal) 2010 AND JOURNÉES DE LA CULTURE 2010 Note: Each of these tours will be offered in English and in French (in separate groups). TOUR 1 Organizer(s) The Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard […]
Free activities for OPAM/Journées de la culture 2010
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Visite du nouveau Mile End le 14 août (anglais) et ...
Susan Bronson, Justin Bur and Josée Laplace Discover the rich history of Eastern Mile End (between Saint-Laurent Boulevard and Saint-Denis Street, Mount Royal Avenue and Saint-Viateur Street). We will explore the urban, cultural and social development and the architecture and conservation of the dense vernacular landscape that occupies part of […]
Walking Tour: Eastern Mile End
Susan Bronson and others Discover the rich history of Western Mile End (between Hutchison Street and Saint-Laurent Boulevard), including the 19th-century agricultural and industrial exhibition grounds and early 20th-century rowhousing, mixed-use buildings and places or worship, as well as the many personalities and cultural communities who helped to shape this […]
Walking Tour: Western Mile End
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 […]
Walking Tour: The Main of Mile End
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
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, […]