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Montreal proves that peaceful anarchy is impossible - or does it?...
A population will turn to violence the moment its police aren't on the job. An oft-cited Montreal episode provides irrefutable proof of this claim. Or does it? Intellectuals routinely refer to an...
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Monorail to Laval: How Montrealers blocked a plan to link Laval to the...
A massive grassroots letter writing campaign sunk an early initiative to link Montreal and Laval by monorail. Here's the deal. Remember Expo 67? Montreal's World Fair of 1967 relied on a...
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Montreal Expos - the 5 most important pitches in their 25 year history
Something around 1.2 million pitches were tossed in Montreal Expos games between 1969 and 2004 and many million others in Montreal Royal games before that. A few of those pitches were significant...
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Wrestler Sailor White: how someone stole his cocaine by distracting him with...
Much-loved Montreal-based pro wrestler Sailor White was known for doing odd jobs around town while off duty from his wrestling tours. Edward John "Sailor" White worked as doorman at Pegs,...
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Outed as heterosexual: why a mysterious fire-bearded Montreal hairdresser...
One of Montreal's most recognizable hairdressers from the early 70s wore a flaming long beard and was assumed to be homosexual but - it turns out - was a smoothly seductive ladies man with a habit...
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Montreal's missing people alerts and the unscratched info itch - stories...
"Montreal police have asked assistance in locating..." for decades such phrases were - and remain - common in newspapers, creating an inverted cases in which media outlets reverse their mission by...
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The New Yorker who sought to eradicate Montreal's dogs and cats
Sol Williams, a "good-looking colored man" aimed to kill all Montreal's dogs and cats when he came from New York City 140 years ago in January 1879. Williams became noteworthy after he rushed...
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Bob Harvie - Montreal radio pioneer leaped to his death from a hotel
Bob Harvie Bob Harvie's enthusiastic voice was one of the first-ever to emerge from Montreal radio station CJAD when it hit airwaves on December 8, 1945. The 22-year-old Toronto-born dynamo...
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Quebec's scandal of the century: how arson, fraud and murder caused panic in...
PayetteFrancois Payette, 36, awoke at his impressive riverside mansion at 9029 Gouin W. one Saturday morning 9:30 in February 1966, strapped on his horn-rimmed glasses and embarked on his rounds...
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Black's Bridge - Overlooked Old Montreal landmark needs a plaque to...
Black's Bridge has ferried Montrealers over the Lachine Canal from Common Street to Mill for over 160 years, bringing people up from the bustling, ancient portside world of Old Montreal through the...
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Basin on Basin Street - When ships came all the way up to Ottawa Street on a...
Basin Street, where once stood St. Anne's church, where once beat the heart of Griffintown's old-time Irish population, made news last week. The sneaky Projet Montreal administration furtively...
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Rubens Francois - love-smitten poet lit himself on fire at Crescent and St....
Poet Rubens Francois, 29, lit himself on fire downtownafter becoming obsessed with Aviva Hershorn, aka Aviva Caiserman, 38,seen here as a young woman in a casting call for an Otto Preminger film "When...
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After 37 years, it's time to free Joseph Kindler, genius inmate who descended...
Joseph Kindler has been in prison since 1982 - save for a few months on the lam - and it's time to release him. Way back in 1982 Kindler, 22, was robbing warehouses in Philadelphia with...
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The horrifying thing discovered on St. Dominique near Mount Royal in 1935
Benny Bronstein, 9, shows a photographer where he made the gruesome discovery.The empty lot sat on land now occupied by the condos in the background Benny Bronstein was playing with his friend Keith...
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Andrew Scoppa killed in Montreal: thoughtful Mafia boss doomed by circumstance
Andrew Scoppa, aka Andrea Scoppa, 55, was shot dead Monday morning while making his rounds near the top of St. John's Blvd in Pierrefonds. Scoppa leaves a widow whom he married in the late 90s,...
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Crutch-wielding gypsy beggar at Atwater cashes in on handouts
Montreal has seen a massive rise in beggars on city streets and even inside malls and metro stations. Vagrants in Canada receive monthly welfare payments and are permitted to earn another $200...
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LaSalle thief caught on camera stealing children's knapsacks
Residents and merchants in the area around Dollard Ave in LaSalle have had their hands particularly full watching out for a one-man crew who has worked tirelessly to relieve them of their goods....
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Neil Cameron - legendary Montreal professor, rebel politician and tireless...
Longtime John Abbott history teacher Neil Cameron, best known as one of four candidates to win seats for the upstart Equality Party in the 1989 provincial elections, has died in Montreal of kidney...
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Inside Montreal's newspaper culture 1963: Christy McCormick's...
Loyal readers know that the staff of Coolopolis are big fans of Christy McCormick's remembrances of Montreal, so we've reprinted an excerpt from his memoirs that he recently posted on Facebook. We...
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Montreal boxing icon Charlie Chase: Persistent slugger didn't let frequent...
Perhaps no Montrealer has simultaneously been a hero and a villain as much as boxer Charlie Chase. Chase, of Barbadian ancestry, was born in Little Burgundy in 1931 and was raised alongside jazz...
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