40 pictures of the Montreal scene in the 1960s and 1970s

 Here are some great photos from Carmel Dumas' excellent 2008 book Montreal Show Chaud, which deals with culture in the Montreal hippie era.
   These photo reproductions are super low quality and don't do the originals justice, so please purchase the excellent 320-pager, which has cost me a ton in overdue library fines as I just never want to hand it back.
   Many, but not all of these photos come from the Cinematheque Quebecois archives.
 
 1 - Early 60s Montreal
2- Bistro on Mountain
3- Bistro on Mountain
 4-Carole Laure
5- Culture vultures on strike
 6-Actor from The Ernie Game
7 -More smoking at Le Bistro
 8- Le Bistro again
 9 - Suzanne Verdal, famous of course in the Leonard Cohen song
10- Vittoria Fiorucci and friend. See: Un jour on Crescent Street - 40 photos of Montreal scenesters from 1973
11- Armand Vaillancourt
 12 - Jean Paul Mousseau with Louise Cote.

16- St Jean Baptiste parade celebrations
 18-Beatlemania Montreal 1964
19- Downtown scene from a Robin Spry movie
20- Quebecois movie launch on the Main
22-Nationalism, Hinduism, hippieism all mixed together in street parades.
23- Suzanne Verdale and Francois Dallegret, a Frenchman who designed Le Drug.
24 - Parade for the five millionth visitor to Expo 67.
25 -Hippies on the mountain
26-60s scenester Nick Auf Der Maur in a later photo
27 - Denise Boucher, Jean Gravel, Breen Leboef, Bob Harrisson, Lucien Francoeur, Marjo, Gerry Boulet, Plume Latraverse and Vic Vogel at the Inspecteur Epingle on St. Hubert for the documentary                                  
28- More parade stuff
29 Subversive magazine Mainmise is available to peruse online. Lots of hippie articles and many photos of the staff posing nude. A few pics of naked children, surely seemed innocent at the time but would definitely raise eyebrows nowadays.
30 - Artists outside the now-replaced Theatre du Quatre sous on Pine east of the Main.

32 - Genevieve Bujold and Claude Gauthier in a movie called Entre la mer et l'eau douce 1967
33 - Purple Unknown, Montreal's first head shop.
34 - De Gaulle doing his Vivre le Quebec Libre speech
35 - Strange photo of two Satan's Choice bikers kissing in Montreal. If anybody knows the back-story please share.

36 - Owner Louis Tavan at his Bistro on Mountain.

37 -Young separatist politician Claude Charron, later discredited after stealing a coat and drunk driving.
38 - Journalist Charles Gagnon seen after getting freed in 1971 with  lawyers Bernard Mergler, Pierre Cloutier and Robert Lemieux and Jacques Larue-Langlois.
39 - Hippies in a commune in Bois Franc