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Phillip Watts: Who killed the 11-year-old newspaper delivery boy on a dark...
Phillip Watts, 11, put on his I Love K-Mart t-shirt, donned a jacket and boots and braved the -14C morning in the dark at 5:30 a.m. on January 7, 1977 to deliver a big stack of Montreal Gazette...
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From The Rainbow to Darwin's - Montreal bars from the 1970s
Montreal 375 Tales contains dozens of stories on Montreal bars and restaurants from the past, including a variation of this one. Keep an eye on this site for news on its upcoming availability....
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Tetris killed nostalgia: How games are killing your precious memories
A new study has demonstrated that those who experience a terrible event can prevent the onset of post traumatic stress disorder by simply playing video games within six hours of the event....
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Disco Montreal 1969 - rare photos of from the early disco dance floor
A sheer blouse didn't do much to hide this lovely young dancer's torso in this 1969 photo from inside an early Montreal disco, where Plexiglas ruled with, 150 modular sixties seats. The Plexi...
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The Riviera - Montreal mobsters' phony drive-in theatre
When the Riviera Theatre opened as an 800-seater at 8820 St Lawrence, north of Cremazie in 1954 it tried to pass itself off as a drive-in theatre. Drive in theatres provided novelty thrills across...
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The man who pulled a coffin around the world - Oddball Elzéar Duquette's...
Elzear Duquette was a middle child born on a farm in Mirabel in 1910 who devoted his life to becoming a lovable oddball by pulling a coffin around the world. Duquette would go to far-away lands...
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The sex scandal shrink of NDG Park - pervert or martyred visionary?
André Larivière greets client at his home in an artistic collage This house at 3426 Marcil, on the west side of NDG Park, was headquarters of one of the nastiest or perhaps most misunderstood...
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Uniting Little Burgundy: how sprawling, muddy Bonaventure Yards became...
Until the mid-1980s Little Burgundy was split by a mud-infested area known as the Bonaventure Yards that gobbled up 900,000 square feet of prime real estate between Atwater and Peel between St....
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Gabriel Aubry - why Montreal's perfect-faced model needs to tell his story
Laval's Gabriel Aubry overcame a difficult childhood bouncing around foster homes away from his many brothers and sisters, who all suffered a similar fate. Little is known about his tumultuous...
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The mysterious death of Antoinette Lashley, 1986
Antoinette Lashley, 32, moved to Montreal from Edmonton in 1986 and got a job in the needle-trade. She met James "Jimmy The Mick" Kairns, 57, a working class guy from The Point/Verdun. His job was...
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30 lost buildings of Montreal that we need to remember
1. St. James Club NW corner University and Dorch. Demolished for PVM in the 1960s.2. Colonial Apartments SW corner Dorch and St. Matthew. Demolished after the south side of Dorch was demolished in the...
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Nasir Ameeriar: Why police are searching for man who killed on downtown...
Engineer Pierre Kounelis invited Nasir Ameeriar to his downtown apartment on the 11th floor of 3445 Drummond on Friday 19 June 1987 to sell his father's 1967 white 1967 Jaguar sports car for...
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Café Caprice - Fabled Plateau landmark saw cannibal firebreathers, murder and...
Let's talk Café Caprice, which was once a sort of landmark bar on St. Denis just north of Mount Royal. 4557 St Denis housed a rubber company back in the 1920s and then later became a printing...
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Quiz of the day - who they and what are the politics here?
May 1963, Montreal courthouse.
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When respectables get killed: Montreal businessmen murdered over the years
21 April 1978 Roland Quintal, 49, was killed by a bomb under the seat of his Cadillac near his home at 289 2nd Ave. in Verdun. 21 April 1978. Marcel Talon, who was best known for trying to tunnel into...
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Claude Ranger, the Monkland Provigo killer who sought to collect a reward on...
Can a killer collect a reward by confessing to a crime he himself committed? The question has led to some theoretical debate, without clear resolution. But a Montreal criminal once tried to scoop...
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The great Montreal Canadiens illegal gambling timekeeping scandal of 1969
Montreal Forum clock post 1966 Montreal Forum timekeeper André Dandurand had a lot of nerve. Dandurand pocketed a $12,500 bribe to manipulate the clock to dictate the time goals were recorded in...
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Shirley and Alfred: Love affair killed by murderous FLQ terrorists
Shirley was eating dinner in downtown Montreal with a friend when she spotted a natty blonde man in a pinstripe suit at another table. "I thought my friend knew him. So I was looking straight at...
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Montreal world firsts: a list that will make you explode with pride and joy...
A list of things that Montreal was first in the world at.1868World's first kidney removal was performed at Hotel Dieu Hospital.1872 World's first tongue and jaw amputation was performed at Hotel Dieu...
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Porn theatres in Montreal - how they came and went
Lowbrow adult movies once constituted a major chunk of Montreal's cinema fare, as dimly-lit 18-and-over joints exploded across towns in the 1970s. Nowadays only such solitary place exists, the...
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