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Montreal firefighters disappointed by lack of 1947 egg fire
"The eggs are burning! The eggs are burning!" Such was the panicked late-night cry of a short-order cook at an east-side Montreal eatery in late November 1947. Most diners would have ignored...
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Who killed Donato Rufolo and Brenda Rickert?
Donato Rufolo, 34 and Brenda Rickert, 24, were found dead in a car trunk in front of 5326 Mountain Sights on Saturday Nov. 15, 1986. The pair had gone missing Sunday October 5 and their remains...
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Montrealer Jeffrey Tritsis is no more
It's a sad Christmas for a well-known Montreal family, as Jeffrey Tritsis has died suddenly at the young age of 35. The cause of death is unknown but it appears to have been the result of some...
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Snowdon mystery: why was a duplex rolled from Decarie to Trans Island?
Montreal geography detective Urban Legend, who serves up considerable insight in the Coolopolis comments section, has assembled some pieces of a local geography mystery. Why was a duplex...
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Mount Royal metro - it's time to build the building that never got built
Back at the dawn of 1960s metro construction, every station pretty much earned a commercial structure upstairs, as all knew that the traffic in and out would lead to hefty sales in a win-win...
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Mel Hall, the Montreal star ballplayer who got 85 years in prison
It was clear that Mel Hall was unusual from the start, as he was one of the very few major league baseball player to embrace winters in Montreal. What's stranger is that he didn't even play for...
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Mount Royal metro - it's time to build the building that never got built
Back at the dawn of 1960s metro construction, every station pretty earned a commercial structure upstairs, as all knew that the traffic in and out would lead to hefty sales in a win-win slam-dunk...
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The most terrible thing that ever happened in NDG
The most horrific thing that ever happened in NDG occurred on Hampton Ave. during World War II. It took place on Dec. 30, 1943 between 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the basement of 4193 Hampton....
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Who killed Pina Nerone?
Giuseppina "Pina" Nerone was just 25 when her sister Felicia found her strangled in her bathtub. The hot water, now cold, was still running and Nerone was clad in her bathrobe as she lay lifeless...
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Inside the world of old-time Montreal sex phone lines
A Montreal woman who worked the phones at one of those old-time sex phone hotlines explains her experience in this exclusive account.**** Montreal is considered the capital of so many things, but...
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What became of rowing champ Tom Ozslansky who killed four at the Cote de...
Tom OzslanskyThomas Ozslansky was a 21-year-old Canadian rowing champion living at 4413 Gatineau who became a killing machine after ingesting LSD. Ozslansky was born in Hungary in 1951 and came to...
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The Holy Grail of Montreal rock and roll mysteries: who was Stuart Saturn?
Record collector Pascal Pilote has spent six years obsessively trying to unearth the mystery of an obscure rock musician who released a competent prog rock album in 1979 under the name Stuart...
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Manslaughter Mayfair Ave. affair: what an NDG teen did when he got tired of...
Louis Di Benga, 15, shot his stepmother Adrienne Frenette, 36, dead at 4544 Mayfair on Oct 3, 1935. Here is his confession. My father remarried November 1932 and since then things did not go well....
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Driving in Quebec - a motorist's survival guide to traveling in the ultimate...
Every new year brings new restrictions and inconveniences on motor vehicle driving, which make Montreal and Quebec the most overgoverned place around when it comes to road traffic. Technology has...
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Old school Montreal biker Bobby Chou dead at 68
Old time biker Bobby Chou has died at 68 after battling a chronic liver problem. Chou did not speak a word of English when he moved to Montreal from China at age 10 but quickly became fluent, with...
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When Montrealers went camping in the city
For decades Montrealers would return to nature not in far-off places distant from the city, but rather right in the city itself. Highways in the 1930s and 40s were far less developed than they are...
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Club 281 - Montreal's unique strip club for ladies - Montreal 375 Tales book...
Club 281281 St. Catherine E., 94 St. Catherine E. (1980—) When hunky Leonard Lalumière stripped down on stage at the former Club Abitibi in April 1980, he became the first man to dance for women at a...
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City of Cote St. Luc's breathtaking moment of brazen self-aggrandizement...
Cities would be hard-pressed to top the craziness of a handful of self-admiring Cote St. Luc councillors on Dec. 11, 2001. On that evening a half dozen sitting councillors of the city of 30,000...
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Anatomy of a homicide overlooked: How Kevin Campbell died on Devil's Hill in...
A half dozen projectiles ripped through Kevin Campbell, 22, at 9:20 p.m. on Aug. 17, 2012 on Devils Hill, as a pair of shooters killed the young man in clear sight of witnesses. Media reports...
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That time a heartsick young Jimmy McElligott threatened to leap off the NDG...
The majestic red-and-white transmission tower flanking the railway tracks near Wilson and Upper Lachine stands triumphant as an NDG landmark. But sadly, it lacks a narrative. So when your kid...
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