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St. Henri from above 1956
I don't like to post stuff posted elsewhere but this was worth an exception. Click these images to see them larger. They're online elsewhere in super high resolution so you can click on them and see...
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Urban lost glory: year-round gams
Springtime is slowly creeping closer after a tough winter in Montreal and layers will be soon gloriously dropped, starting with scarves, then gloves, then hats, then coats, then boots and we'll be clad...
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Why cops should reconsider calls for victims
In a perfect world, the daily productivity of all public workers should be a matter of public record because we have a right to know if people are actually working for the salaries we taxpayers pay...
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Miss Chinese Montreal - guess who won
Miss Chinese Montreal usually goes under the radar here but it's a fairly big deal because the winner is sent to the larger Chinese pageant and two local contestants have used it as a springboard to...
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Quebec prisoners and their inferior phone access
While telephone calls have become massively easier to make over the last few decades for most of us, one demographic here in Quebec is seeing its ability to reach people on the phone diminish....
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Who killed Native wrestler Don Eagle & his wife? We think we know
Pro wrestler Chief Don Eagle died of gunshots in Kahnawake in 1966 and his wife was then killed two years later. So what exactly happened here? We think we have it figured out. Carl Donald Bell,...
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Reputation be damned: here's why Montreal is really a city for earlybirds
Montreal nightlife has long been known as Canada's best since the first Iroquois launched a tomahawk at a French priest's giant black hat. Catholic traditions have been credited - or perhaps blamed...
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Al Palmer's tips on making small talk with 100-year-old Montrealers
If you ever cross paths with someone from Montreal who has become very, very old, here's a few useful topic discussion starters from that eternal fountain of wisdom, the one and only Al Palmer.Do you...
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Pure Nightclub - how it lost its license for four months
Don't bother heading down to the Pure Nightclub this weekend on St. Cat coupla blocks east of the Main at St. Timmy-T. It has had its license yanked for four months and will only reopen in early...
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Quebec to allow customized plates, Coolopolis takes credit
We would like to rather humbly take credit for finally topping the Quebec government's refusal to allow customized plates. We noted in a recent post that the province loses quite a lot of potential...
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Montreal celebrates 50 years of bus identification from behind: bad or good?
A salute to a great, or perhaps not-so-great technological innovation that came to Montreal 50 years ago today (give or take a few calendar pull-offs) Montreal's public transit system changed...
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Upper Lachine and Harvard: slated for demolition
This unremarkable garage at the southwest corner of Harvard and Upper Lachine is not long for this world as the owner has filed a demolition permit application to be evaluated at an upcoming...
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Montreal 's Peg Leg dance craze
Postwar Montreal dance-show couple Rosita and Deno brings to mind that exchange from Spinal Tap:David St. Hubbins: It's such a fine line between stupid, and uh...Nigel Tufnel: Clever.David St....
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Fifth anniversary of David Fortin's disappearance: Why we believe he's living...
An altered image of what David Fortin might look like now You might be able to earn a quick $10,000, solve a difficult mystery and reunite a heartbroken family split five years ago Monday. There's...
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A killer's voice: let's hear from the man who killed this woman
Katherine Hawkes, 33, was raped and killed in a wooded area on her way home to St. Laurent on 20 September 1977. The killer, who spoke French, called police not once but twice to describe the...
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Q- where in Mtl was this taken in 1910?
The church is still standing and it's one that you have likely been inside if you're a Montrealer. This newer image was taken in roughly the same spot. Yes ! It's that Mile End library on Park.
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Is 5'7" too short to join the police? We seemed to think so a century ago
Here's our photo reenactment of a terrible event that took place on Notre Dame W, seven doors down from the Main 100 years ago. An unidentified Romanian immigrant, who had just been told that he...
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Quiz - help..where was this?
It's entitled 1909 Champs de Mars, which is that big field adjacent to the Montreal City Hall that was used as a parking lot fr several decades. Can't quite place where precisely this would be....
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