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50 amazing photos - with captions - that tell the story of Montreal
The Toronto Star has provided the Toronto Public Library website with many of its archival photos, which include scads from Montreal, mostly taken between 1930 and 1990. The Coolopolis interns went...
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His ex was murdered in Westmount and then he burned to death: Montreal capo...
Longtime Montreal mob boss Luigi Greco, aka Louis Greco went down in a blaze of glory at age 59, literally becoming a human torch while using gasoline as a solve to lay tiles at his brother's pizza...
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Westmount don, drunk hangman, Lenny's vista, prison escape by sheets, RIP...
Not many kids have died playing in Montreal churches but this joint near Berri and St. Catherine gobbled up a teen running around on scaffolding in 1877.Mafia chief in Westmount: Vic Cotroni, top...
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Montreal University Club building put up for sale - club to vacate by Dec. 31
The University Club building, a venerable downtown structure sitting just a stone's throw from McGill's Roddick Gates since Dec. 17, 1913, is for sale. Club board members passed a pair of...
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How a Verdun child killer changed policing in Quebec
Caroline Finley Windsor 7, was at 30 3rd Ave. in Verdun spending Friday July 27, 1951 at her grandparents house across the street from her home. Her grandma Rolande Milmine was visiting grandpa at...
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Slimming with electric bandages and plastic wrap - Montreal's weight-loss...
A chain of Montreal weight loss clinics sprouted up in the early 1970s across the city, attracting women with the promise of losing weight without need for diet or exercise. The Figure Magic...
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Montreal's spookiest place: Lachine Canal, the watery graveyard, has claimed...
Dozens have drowned in the dark waters of the man-made Lachine Canal since it first flowed in 1825. The waters have not spared children or elderly women, as people of all types breathed their last...
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Black Montreal icons: The all-time Top 20
1-Jackie Robinson Though in Montreal only a few months, this colour barrier-breaking pioneer taught the world something that residents knew since forever, that Montrealers mostly don't much care who's...
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Tavern king Joseph Beaudry's bloody Montreal drinking empire and how it...
Peter Murphy managed the Texas Tavern, one of over 30 establishments owned by Joseph Beaudry, who had spent 45 years expanding his Montreal booze empire. Murphy came to work at the Texas Tavern at...
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Montreal Twitter Power Rankings - Who are Montreal's top tweeters?
#1 Genie Bouchard 1,520,000 Every woman wants to be her, every man wants to be with her. She proves that you can still get lousy at what you do and have a ton of fun.The fall at the end is SO dramatic...
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Amazing Montreal website allows you to compare today's view to 1947
Watch the video about the amazing website that allows you to fly over Montreal from above in 1947 *** It's the craziest, funniest, scariest and most...
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Slitkin & Slotkin: Montreal's most Damon Runyonesque bar: Montreal 375 Tales...
A downtown saloon was home to some of Montreal's most colourful characters of the postwar period. Drop on it to the legendary and bizarre Slitkin and Slotkin on the north side of Dorch just west of...
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Montreal's East End Gang - heartless Dubois misfits shaped a brutal era in...
East End criminals from the 1970s were entirely unlike their well-publicized West End Gang counterparts but the two sides cooperated on various criminal endeavors in a relationship that has gone...
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Humans facing extinction: how Montreal can save humanity by reversing...
Humans are on the brink of extinction, as tragically-ignored studies on fertility have repeatedly confirmed. Coolopolis naturally begs the obvious question: how can Montreal make money off this...
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Molson ditches Montreal - beer pipeline over the St. Lawrence envisaged
Time to crack open some Molsons and sink some boats, boys. (Is that a Westmount saying? - Chimples) Molson's Brewery which has called Montreal home since 1786, is shipping out of Notre Dame and...
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Montreal's Top 10 flashiest drug lords - all time power rankings
Druglords sport fancy suits, drive souped up sports cars and spread a trail of cash wherever they go. Here are the best of the best when it comes to Montreal druglords who lived up to those...
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Montreal crew pulls off major bank heist, scores cash and misery: an inside,...
Samson, Yacknin, Stepanoff The Brockville Savings and Trust robbery of 3 May, 1958, was an epic heist that saw authorities opt to enrich the thieves by cashing their stolen bonds, as we reveal for...
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Jürgen Vogt's never-before-seen photos of early 1970s Crescent Street shine...
Certain Montreal bars were once magnets for bright people who formed lifelong bonds and great memories over stubbies. Those include the Boiler Room, on Crescent which lasted from about 1969 to 1973...
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Oddballs: Montreal's all time power rankings
#1 The Great Antonio (1925-2003) Nobody pulls buses with chains around downtown streets anymore. Such a loss. The Great One was known for sitting around places like the donut shop at Guy and St....
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Montreal 375 Tales: How to buy this new and sensational history of Montreal
Don't miss your chance to snap up my definitive history of Montreal, available now on Amazon and a growing list of bookstores. It's a 350-page beast complete with a fat chapter on Montreal's most...
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