from Coteau Saint-Louis to the lively urban village of today
Lecture by Justin Bur
Saint-Louis-du-Mile-End, ca. 1890 / photographer uncertain
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 all these names. Forests, tanneries, orchards, pasture, and quarries were its main land uses, before the landscape was transformed into a suburb as the city blossomed into a metropolis. The mainly francophone population of the early days became bilingual then multilingual, as waves of immigration and transformation remade – and still remake – the area.
Justin Bur, urban planning and computer science graduate, is president of Friends of Saint-Laurent Boulevard and a member of the board of Mile End Memories. His recent research has delved into the railway history of Montreal and the spatial, cultural and functional evolution of Mile End.
Sunday 16 February 2014,
2:00–4:00 p.m.
Mile End Library
5434 avenue du Parc, Montreal (south of Saint-Viateur – 80 bus)
Free
Lecture in French, discussion in French and English