The decision to annex the Town of Saint-Louis to Montreal was made during the summer of 1908; it would come into effect on January 1, 1910. Mayor Napoléon Turcot decided to use the last months of independence to provide the residents of what would soon become Laurier Ward with one […]
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 […]
Between 1924 and 1941, the residence located at 5201 Waverly housed the Yidishe Folks Shuln (Jewish People’s Schools), at a time when Mile End was the heart of Jewish life in Montreal. The school was led by socialist activists who sought to provide a secular alternative to the religious education […]
The YMCA has not always been located at the corner of Park Avenue and Saint-Viateur Street. Long a major presence in central Montreal, the Y opened a branch in the Fairmount Hall building (on the northeast corner of Fairmount Avenue and Jeanne-Mance Street) in 1909. In 1912, in response to […]