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Novelist Marcelyne Claudais horrified to find dead mouse in her butter - was...
Marcelyne Claudais, 1975 On Tuesday 4 April 1972 Marcelyne Claudais, 36, purchased a pound of butter labelled Ferme Saint Laurent and hauled it back in her grocery bag to her suburban Chomedey, Laval...
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The emporer has no clothes - Quebec's first nudist king Gaetan Couture:...
Nudist in Chertsey, Quebec, 1975 Gaetan Couture (born c. 1914) returned to Canada after serving in World War II to become an engineer but then got sidetracked by a new passion: stripping down in...
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Bloody 1969 naked avicide traumatized 600 theatergoers
Loranger, Gratien Gelinas and Mousso at the launch party Bubbly flowed and the most beautiful and hip actors were on hand at a party in mid-January 1969 at the Comedie-Canadienne, the theatre at St....
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Mazdaznan sun-worshipping cult attracted Montreal's elite to a temple on...
Ellen Shaw and Ruth Hilton, 1908 Montreal was a key spot for a religious cult from 1908 that attracted wealthy donors to support a sun-worshipping religion invented by a German named Ernst Otto Hanish...
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Montreal downtown landmark Loews Theatre toppled - famous movie house...
Montreal's once-majestic Loews Theatre has finally been emphatically and irreversibly erased from the downtown streetscape, as bulldozers did their magic on the vacant structure, as demonstrated in...
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"I get the urge to cry" - badass trigger-happy Montreal police team routinely...
Brosseau and Yvorchuk, 1972 An elite squad of badass Montreal police marksmen routinely solved crimes by peering down their well-oiled semi-automatic .30 calibre M1 rifles, taking steady aim at...
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It's raining men - Forecast for Nov. 1967 had seven Montrealers falling from...
Douglas Brown Just weeks after Montreal's joyous Expo World's Fair authorities were preparing to hang seven Montrealers in the single month of November. The murderers set to hang included Douglas...
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Rogue cops once broke into the Montreal courthouse and stole a giant amount...
Louis Morel - was he involved? Unidentified thieves - said to be rogue police officers - stole a massive amount of cocaine, morphine and heroin from the Montreal courthouse on 22 December 1920 but were...
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Ranking Montreal's hottest celebrities : 2002 experiment revealed the ugly...
Montreal Mirror city columnist Kristian Gravenor (stop referring to yourself in the third person man! - Chimples) pumped a few dozen Montreal notables into the now-extinct hot or not dot com site to...
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Eliane St. Pierre disappeared forever during a date with Henri-Emile...
Miss Elianne St. Pierre, 21, went on a date with Henri-Emile Fissiault, 29, on 3 November 1936 and that was the last anybody saw of her or her body. Her disappearanced ignited an unprecedented...
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Mistress offs sugar daddy: young cabaret dancer Lillian Morel left William...
Lillian Morel, 20 Young Lillian Morel toiled away as a nightclub dancer at the Hollywood Cabaret on St. Catherine Street when she met a bond salesman who swept her off her feet. Morel, aged just 20,...
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Crime tales from the long-lost black nightclubs of St. Antoine Street
Generic dude photoshopped in front of now-demolished buildings that once housed the old time black clubs of St. Antoine Street The now-demolished-and-replaced structures on the south side of St....
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Meanies robbed fruitmonger Max Lipes and tossed him off a bridge in Old...
Max Lipes following his mishap St. Lawrence Main Street fruitmonger Max Lipes brought some grisly fame to the 500 metre viaduct, let's call it a bridge, on Notre Dame that spans Berri and Montcalm...
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Expo 67 - ranking the concepts that the World's Fair brought to Montreal
Scantily-clad dancer fromLa Ronde bar, 1967 Montreal's primo bombastastic momentude blossomed in the summer of 1967, as Expo 67 World's Fair brought a pompatus of carefree partee-ying to the island...
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Dominic Macri, hunky entrepreneur with no criminal record gunned down in...
Montreal homicide detectives have not yet solved the 9 February murder of Dominic Macri, 46, a fit and good-looking businessman with a private school education and no criminal record and who was...
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Primo Montreal Street real estate once housed families who launched their...
1438 Mountain Street, long demolished What's now Montreal's newest, poshest residential project pokes the sky over Mountain Street just behind Ogilvy's, shouting out with its tryhard Eurosqueak its...
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Montreal murder 1998 - who was killed and why they died
13 JanuaryPeter Paradisordered the hit Eric Persechino, 31, of Laval was shot dead inside of his Rage Underground body-piercing shop at 4422 Wellington in Verdun on a Saturday at 3 p.m. in front of...
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Covid cop crackdowns - a list of Quebec covid liquor license suspensions
Montreal in freer timesGlace nightclub in 1982 Quebec bars owners, staff and customers suffered unprecedented pressure over the last two years, as the provincial CAQ government blamed bars and...
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Angellic French outlaw stripper sisters blasted into Montreal like an...
Maude Chauvin, 21, and her sister Patricia Chauvin, 27, moved to the island city on the St. Lawrence from Angers, France in 1977 and rapidly fascinated, enthralled and seduced Montrealers by...
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Quebec bombshell miscarriage of justice: Criminal court exposed for holding...
Shockwaves in Quebec after a judgment revealed that an undisclosed court tried an individual in a secret proceeding that remained kept off all legal records.Secret trials are associated with...
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