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1878–1895
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(Français) Couvent de la Providence du Mile End
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(Français) Le « passé antérieur » du Champ des Possibles
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(Français) École Saint-Louis
The Mile End Tavern was an inn and tavern in operation from the beginning of the 19th century until the turn of the 20th century. Located on the northwest corner of the crossroads of the Saint-Laurent Road with the Tannery and Sainte-Catherine Roads – now Mont-Royal Avenue – it was the […]
The Mile End Tavern
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(Français) Institution des Sourds-Muets
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(Français) Gare du Mile End
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(Français) Église Saint-Enfant-Jésus
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 ...
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(Français) L’identité historique du Plateau
1 The Canadian Pacific Railway Company’s fame stems, in part, from the construction of prestigious grand hotels between 1888 and 1930 designed to attract affluent tourists to spectacular sites served by the railroad. Inspired by the castles of France’s Loire Valley, they became icons of the Canadian landscape, including Château Frontenac […]
The story of the C.P.R. Hotel
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Des familles fondatrices du Mile End
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Le chemin de fer
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