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That time three rich kids sought to blow up Nelson's Column in Old Montreal
De Martigny, Pelland and Mercier (real heads taken from later photos) are seen in this photo collage re-enactment What became of the three rich young men who sought to blow up Nelson's Column in...
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A shocking description of a hanging in Montreal following the 1837 Rebellion
A shocking and haunting hanging took place in Montreal after the 1837 Rebellion but only made news across North American when the event was described by an eyewitness five decades later. Rather...
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Our inexplicable appetite for backyard pools: how splashy-fun became a...
There are two aquatic Montreals. Some neighbourhoods are rife with home swimming pools, while others contain almost zero backyard waterbeds. Any exploration of this question must first cross...
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Jubilee Rink - East End home to Canadiens and Wanderers burned a century ago...
One century ago today a historically notable but totally-forgotten Montreal hockey arena burned down. The Jubilee Rink, onetime dockworker Patrick Doran's arena on St. Catherine East, was lost...
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Gruesome crime scene photos - and how they disappeared from the Quebec...
Grisly, gruesome photos of murder scenes were long on prominent view at every Montreal corner store, as police allowed crime tabloids to snap and publish horrible photos of murder victims. It's...
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Quebec's only-ever hitwoman, Christine Lepage, could be released soon, yet...
Lepage. aged 49, in 2005 Christine Lepage, 25, showed up at the attractive home of a gay couple in Brossard posing as a pollster collecting data for a survey about funeral homes. The short-haired...
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15 vintage photos of the Recreatheque - Laval's teenage heaven now facing...
Montreal's teenage heaven on earth opened in Laval in 1968 and provided endless joy for coming-of-age youths until it faltered and went abandoned. The sprawling 210,000 square foot structure is...
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Salvatore Scoppa, high-profile Montreal criminal, shot dead in Laval
Sal Scoppa, 49, has been killed, shot dead outside Laval's Sheraton Hotel Saturday at 10 pm. His killers brazenly gunned him down, possibly firing shots to his head, before fleeing at high speed in...
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Montreal's greatest blunders: a list of a city's all-time biggest mistakes
1 - The burning of parliament. Rowdy Montreal Englishmen were triggered at what they considered insufficient punishment for the rebels of 1837. So they burned down parliament on April 25, 1949. Big...
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Jeanne-d'Arc Michaud - Quebec's now-forgotten criminal mastermind who gained...
Marie Jeanne-d'Arc Michaud seen in custody in 1952 Ste. Agathe's Marie Jeanne-d'Arc Michaud became North America's hottest front-page criminal in the summer of 1952 when the "tiny, hot tempered"...
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Projet Montreal - if they cared about the environment, here's what they would...
Montrealers suffer a drastic shortage of green space much more serious than its urban counterparts elsewhere. We fall woefully below the standard urban minimum of 2k hectares green space per 1k...
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Postcard photos demonstrate that golf, not mansions, once filled Upper Westmount
The land around what's now the western end of The Boulevard hosted the grassy links of The Westmount Golf Club until about 1910. These photos demonstrate that what's now super-expensive real...
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Shocking plan to eradicate grass: Projet Montreal's Eric Alan Caldwell tasked...
Eradicate Montreal's public lawns: that's the bizarre proposal floated by Projet Montreal this week. Beautiful, living blades sprout heroically from the soil each spring, providing vernal joy for...
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Hangings in Montreal - a full list and stories of criminals executed by the...
Photo collage of Marguerite Pitrehanging at Bordeaux Prison A gallows at Bordeaux Prison, not far from the heart of downtown Montreal, was where many criminals breathed their last breaths between...
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Top 10 Montrealers - Coolopolis Power Rankings for June 2019
1-Stephen Bronfman After years of rumbling without any solid results, Stephen Bronfman has led a group that finally purchased land for an upcoming baseball stadium downtown. The land, near Wellington...
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The mysterious disappearance of high-society Barbara Pitcher
Barbara Pitcher, 18, was born into the top of Montreal society and so when she disappeared from downtown Montreal on 21 March 1929, it led to international headlines, airplane searches and a...
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The Quebec government despised John H. Roberts' article about a murdered...
A Montreal journalist wrote an article so bad that he was ordered to spend one year in prison, without any criminal trial or legal conviction. If this seems alarming, that's because it is, as it...
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Craziest obituary ever - life and times of early-era hippie drug dealer Sam...
Sam Fried was a Montreal drug dealer, who died in 1974 at the age of 25 by overdosing on laughing gas and is remembered below in the most savage obituary of all time. Its author, Esmond Choueke,...
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20 photos of old time Montreal circus visits that will move you so deeply...
10 July 1939 Conrad Poirier two young women in satin bathing suits ose with a blown. (All photos by Conrad Poirier, shot in Montreal. Hosted on the BANQ site.)Elephants at circus in Delorimier Stadium...
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Goals and cocaine: Jacques Richard - the 50 goal scorer who aimed to become a...
You were born with skates on seven years after WWII ended in a booming Quebec economy. You're the oldest of 9, (four boys), dad drove a taxi and you enjoyed fast fame for your hockey skills...
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