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Mile End History
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(Français) Un établissement iconique du Mile End : la ...
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(Français) L’épicerie des frères Levine
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(Français) Les communautés juives hassidiques
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(Français) Un hôpital civique à la Ferme Fletcher
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(Français) Montreal Annex: «A Strictly High-Class Suburb»
Mile End Under Construction During fall 2007, a new generation of activists breathed new life into the Citizens’ Committee, which had been in semi-hibernation since the early 2000s. Many of these younger people were parents of children at École Lambert-Closse, on Bernard Street, where they met Claudine Schirardin, one of […]
The Mile End Citizens’ Committee during the 2000s
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(Français) Le Comité des citoyens du Mile End, années 1980-1990 ...
Mile End has had several citizens’ committees over the years. At the beginning of the 20th century, residents banded together to preserve the exclusively residential character of Park Avenue and opposed the proliferation of businesses and drinking establishments. In 1967, Hubert Falardeau, (nicknamed “the priest of the poor”), along with […]
The Early Days of the Mile End Citizens’ Committee
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(Français) L’école polyvalente Émile-Nelligan – 4750 avenue Henri-Julien
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(Français) 1964-1973 : La naissance des mégastructures
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(Français) À côté de la cour ferroviaire, 1910-1965 : bois, ...
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(Français) Le « passé antérieur » du Champ des Possibles
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(Français) Identités plurielles et le « cas » du Mile ...
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(Français) Identités plurielles et le « cas » du Mile ...
Real estate fever captures Montreal After 1885, the cow grazing faded in importance on Hon. Louis Beaubien’s farm. His sale of building lots on the property became more frequent. For example, on December 16, 1887, the weekly real estate magazine, Le Prix Courant, noted that: We find in this week’s […]
Chapter 6.3 – Louis Beaubien and Mile End’s Urbanization
The beginning of Mile End’s urbanization It was due, primarily, to the Beaubien family that the village began to develop, first along the southern border of their holdings, i.e., on the north side of Mont-Royal Avenue, between Saint-Laurent and Robin (Henri-Julien). Louis Beaubien sold building lots, often one at a […]
Chapter 6.2 – Saint-Louis du Mile End 1880-1895: a troublesome ...
4 What did the area in which Leonidas Villeneuve & Co was flourishing look like in the early 1880s? Review of 1881 census data and the Lovell’s directories leads to the conclusion that it was a kind of “urban village”—a hybrid space, punctuated by quarries and pastures belonging to major property owners, […]
Chapter 6.1 – Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, 1880-1895: from village to town
The 1880-1910 period begins the decisive transformation of the Mile End: villas, farms, and residences of craftsmen living near their place of work gave way to a new town. The village received town status in 1895, and became a district of Montreal on January 1, 1910. In 1881, three years […]
Chapter 5, The villages of the Plateau and the Villeneuve ...
We saw in the previous chapter that the Beaubien family contributed to the creation of a cluster of institutions around Saint-Enfant-Jésus church to allow the development of a village community in a previously almost uninhabited area. Building a railway station less than a kilometre away was the other major part […]
4.3 The Beaubien Family and the Mile End Train Station
Read the first part: Pierre Beaubien, Doctor and Landlord Second Part: A parish in the middle of nowhere The Institution for the Deaf became the first establishment in what was to become the parish centre and a growing village at Mile End. Created in 1848, the Institution was first located […]