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They died before their time: Notable Montrealers and other Quebecers who died...
1759 Montcalm, 47, (1712-1959) French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War1759 James Wolfe, 32, (1727-1759) British Army officer known for his...
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Montreal's unescorted women refused service when unaccompanied by a man
Montreal needs to commemoratethe snub on women in bars Generations of Montreal women merit a monument to commemorate the ban on their right to drink at bars unaccompanied. Denying service to such...
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Donna Francis and Nancy Simms: the vicious and mystifying 1969 killing of...
Nancy Simms and Donna Francis Montrealers Donna Francis and Nancy Simms are likely both still alive, as they were born around 1950 and 1946, so Chimples tells us that the arithmetic suggests they'd...
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Big Ronnie McKinnon, friend of many in Montreal's West End Gang, is no more
Montrealer Ron "Big Ronnie" McKinnon, (aka Ronnie Owchar, he chose to use his mother's maiden name) has succumbed to cancer at the age of 60 after a lifetime as a bit player in West End Gang drama....
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Deceased Mafioso Andrew Scoppa to blow lid off Montreal mob in new book
Andrew Scoppa, who was killed in the West Island on 21 October 2019 after a feud with the reigning Rizzuto sect of the Montreal Mafia, is set to rock the world from the grave. Andrew Scoppa...
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Judge orders feuding siblings to sell Plateau building they inherited
When Edvoxia Stavrou Pavlakidis died in Florida in November 2002 she bequeathed the Montreal property she owned - via her deceased husband - at the corner of Coloniale and Rachel to her two kids,...
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Micheline Blouin: forgotten killer martyr in the battle against biker Communism
Micheline Blouin (1944-1974) was awaiting trial for manslaughter when she was found dead with a bullet through her head at her apartment at 256 Delage apt 15 in Beauport, a suburb of Quebec City on 7...
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New study: Montreal housing prices now far less affordable than before
New data proves what we suspected: since last year Montreal house prices have spiraled out of control relative to our incomes. According to the 2021 demographia median multiple study,...
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Montreal landmark mystery - what became of the Golden Owl?
A giant 12-foot golden owl stood imposingly at the door of a printers shop at 389 Notre Dame West in Old Montreal from 1895 until early in June 1946 when it vanished mysteriously. The iconic owl...
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Kissing Bandits, Gay Nineties Bandit, Garbage Collection Crew: hidden cost of...
Montreal earned the title of bank robbery capital of Canada thanks in part to sensationalistic newspaper coverage that made the thieves look sorta awesome, as reporters gave robbers nicknames such...
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Romeo Viens arrested for building an Atom Bomb
QPP Det. Leon Pronovost examines the phony Atom bomb In early 1946 Arthur Romeo Viens tossed restlessly on a hospital cot in Montreal. Dr. Maxime Brisebois finally decided that the patient's...
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Ian Clyde and his awkward photo with Queen Elizabeth II
Pint-sized Ian Clyde was a rising Featherweight boxer from the Point St. Charles district on top of the world in 1976 after disposing of British champ Charlie Magri at the Montreal Olympics, held...
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That time a taxi fell 50 feet down off the bridge just east of city hall
Maurice Beaulieu, 36, did not go down in history as one of Montreal's most inept taxi drivers. Chimples, the brain-implanted simian, contacted the Coolopolis interns from the satellite phone on...
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Demoniacal Infestation of Acton Vale in 1969
Sylvio Saint-Onge and his wife Mrs. Sylvio were respectable people living in a normal family way until 6 January 1969 when invisible and diabolical forces invaded their home in Acton Vale....
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Mandatory tip entry fees deemed illegal - Cleopatra strip club ruling
For decades certain bars, parties and other events have charged an informal entry fee of $2 or $5 or so in exchange for being allowed inside. The cover fee is described as a sort of mandatory...
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Rick Chartraw: the Hab that tried to sue all the newspapers
Rick Chartraw was a longstanding fixture on the Montreal Canadiens during a time when the team was perhaps the best team in NHL history but - unlike most of his teammates - he became an obscure...
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Hurtful words still leading to fines, as Quebec continues fining people who...
Landmark free speech ruling in favour of comedian Mike Ward at the Supreme Court might have some future impact on the landscape of permitted utterances, but government bureaucrats and judges...
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Joseph Raso, the Montreal nightclub killer who fled to Italy, never to be caught
Joseph RasoMike Giordano, 32, was working the door at a private after hours party on Peel Street across from Windsor Train Station on 10 September 1959. It was 4 a.m. at the Bal Tabarin, which...
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Neil Sheppard, hippie adventurer, son of legendary Montreal criminal, is no more
Neil Sheppard Neil Sheppard, born Neil Ship, son of legendary Montreal gambling boss Harry Ship, has died. Sheppard, who was an affable and character and spellbinding raconteur, died in his sleep...
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Harry Ship: how his bad luck gambling streak put Montreal into the hands of...
Ship and wife Ida How did New York's Italian Mafia obtain its grip on Montreal's underworld? Blame Harry Ship's gambling addiction. Ship (born Shipshovitz) was a Jewish hustler who was great with...
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