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Victor Delamarre the tiny, powerful Montreal superhero
Shout-out to Victor Delamarre, a musclebound Montreal cop whose feats of strength, (climbing a ladder carrying a horse in a sling, bending a quarter between his thumb and forefinger, etc) made him...
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Point residents fight condo developments
Saw this poster on a little La Prairie Ave. street in the Point not far from St. Patrick, a strip that has attracted many condos over the last couple of decades because of its proximity to the...
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Montreal's traffic planners keep giving roundabouts the snub
So, roundabouts, as we have noted here, are rapidly being embraced all across North America because they are 30 percent less polluting and 20 percent more efficient, considerably safer and they're...
View ArticleThe intellectually disabled: a history of suffering in Quebec
Was talking to someone who worked with an intellectually disabled young man of 19 who recently succumbed to cancer without ever realizing he was sick. Apparently the fact that he seemed to have...
View ArticleList: The 5 best rap videos ever shot in NDG
The Coolopolis jury, after much heated debate (which led to three interns leaving Coolopolis Towers in a fit of anger, leaving rather delicious bagged lunches in the fridge) has finally decided that...
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Nine major Montreal hotels that have closed in last few years
Hotel RenaissanceDelta University StBoutique hotels have been on the rise for some time here in Montreal and have taken an increasingly large bite out of the local temporary-lodgings pie, as have other...
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Willy the glass cutter
Willy the glass cutter at the Notre Dame St. Rona explains why he has never gotten cut in a job famous for mauling workers: "When someone is standing there waiting for you, rushing you, asking you...
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When tobacco companies funded McGill's respiratory research
Peter Macklem conducting lung research at McGillOn Sept 1, 1972 McGill accepted a $300,000 donation from the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers’ Council to study breathing problems suffered by humans....
View Article100 years ago: Montreal's great water emergency
Christmas, coming in a few daysies, marks the 100 th anniversary of a dry disaster which left 350,000 people without water. The problem started at 5 p.m. on Dec. 25, 1913 with the effort to widen the...
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Coolopolis on CTV talking old time Montreal sex trade
There's a cool exhibit on vice in the 40's & 50's going on downtown at the city history museum just east of Youville and McGill... they were kind enough to give me a freeb as a journalist but I had...
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Plattsburgh-North Pole Burlington to be replaced by Boston?
Many of us here in Montreal don't spend much time thinking about the smaller rural towns outside of the city, particularly those of us anglos who tend to think of those areas within the province as...
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Hooker gold rush expected as Canada's anti-prostitution laws struck down
If you look out the window right now you might see buses jammed with farm girls rushing to the city with dollar signs in their eyes to make their fortune in the skin trade, or perhaps you'll see good...
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Who killed Alphonse Quenneville?
One of the most stunning unsolved crimes ever surrounding the local taxi business took back when horse and buggies still roamed the streets and 135 years later we have an idea who might have...
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Verdun resident makes unexpected discovery during icy water rescue
Next time you're down near the aqueduct, maybe waiting to cross at that infernally-endless red light at 4th and Champlain, think about William Napier, of 3351 Evelyn, a married father of two, who...
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Bridge and Wellington - demolished!
This long-abandoned building has been razed and to Montrealers like me, it might take a bit of adjusting to get accustomed to its disappearance. It stood at Bridge and Wellington for a very long...
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Winsor Hotel among trove of recently-found footage from WWII
Adm. Giovanni Galati A huge stash of films has been discovered among stumbled across a massive collection of film footage dating from World War II, while rooting through his deceased grandpa's...
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Old phone rehabilitated, made workable
This from regular commenter MP & I: "Years ago I worked for The Bell at the end of the Step by Step and Rotary Dial era. Recently I 'Installed' a Telephone I have had since 1978 or so.My last...
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Blue Bonnets racetrack: a portrait of decay
The amazin'pics of the ol' Blue Bonnets racetrack have got me trying to round up Zombie Boy to film a post-apocalyptic thriller. Those like myself who recall the racetrack with fondness might be...
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Verdun aviation pioneer pays ultimate price for ignoring premonition
Verdun-born Murial Hanning-Lee, a stewardess, author and early-aviation pioneer did a whole lot of things right in her brief life. Ignoring a nagging premonition in 1957 was not one of them.Murial...
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