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Mike Bossy - Montrealer with British roots got snubbed by his hometown team
Mike Bossy, who is now battling advanced lung cancer, would have devoted his awesome hockey skills to his hometown Montreal hockey fans had he not been snubbed by the Canadiens. Mike was born in...
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Aaron Honigman's language of the eyes - the Montrealer who trained New York...
Honigman and his daughter Lily in 1923 Montrealer Aaron Honigman once persuaded New York City's police to hire him to train officers in his "language of the eyes" that relied on a system of eye...
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Edwin Pearson, how a petty criminal court gadfly toppled a judge
Edwin Pearson (1932-2010) was a criminal who loved to play lawyer, defending himself against an endless series of charges ranging from fraud to theft, seizing every opportunity to file every type...
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Joseph Ungar's life changed when he answered a phone call from his wife who...
Joseph and Martha, 1942 Joseph Ungar was a Hungarian immigrant working as a machinist and living at 716 de L'Epee in Outremont in April 1958 when his phone rang. "It was like a voice from the grave,"...
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TMR Royalmount affair proves that Canadian premiers need to punish...
Proposed Royalmount Mall housing Purchasing a house or condo has become an impossible task in Montreal and much of Canada. Not only is every property insanely-priced but each receives dozens of...
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Downtown gay protest in 1984 signaled end of the Golden Age of Sex
The Golden Age of Sex began around 1966 and ended in about 1983. Sex was a lot less fun and harder to get outside of those years. The first step towards the Golden Age of Sex occured in the early...
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Real Montrealers think Musique Plus is still on one of those channels
Real Montrealers recall boasting about how little rent they're paying.... Real Montrealers nod when the tavern waiter looks and raises two fingers... Real Montrealers stifle a hidden laugh when someone...
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Rosemarie Doederlein disappeared in NDG in 1954 and hasn't been seen since
Rosemarie at about 12 Rosemarie Doederlein was aged 13 when she arrived in Montreal with her sister Vera, 12 and parents Hilda and Oskar. The family arrived by ship from a small town in Southern...
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The rise and fall of Montreal's fighting Hiltons - photos and timeline
Jimmy Dave Matthew Alex Stewwart June 1981 Davey Sr. 1940 Dave "Davey" Hilton II is born in Edmunston N.B, although some articles refer to him as a Scottish immigrant. He fights as a featherweight,...
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Canada's travel restrictions: Trudeau regime leverages covid fear to offset...
Canada's travel restrictions have been among the world's harshet since the start of covid, as Canadians have been discouraged and denied the joy of going abroad. Canadians have massively rued the...
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Montreal's original autograph hound: who has Jack Campbell's autograph...
So now for the burning question that nobody but Coolopolis and its unpaid interns have the guts to ask: what became of Jack Campbell's autograph collection? If anybody has Campbell's collection...
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50s gold fraud scam involved fake gold, fake cops and a car window toss
Eugene Deschambault Quebec gold scam 1951: 1-Sell bars of fake stolen gold (it's brass but don't give the sucker time to find that.out.)2-Drive your sucker to a buyer who promises to pay him double...
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Photos tell the life of late, lamented Habs legend Guy Lafleur
Dec. 1969: Gold Medal Club presents Lafleur with a trophy for highest scoring junior player in Quebec, Jacques Sarrazin, who ran the Paul Sauve Arena and Jacques Vanesse, of Soprt Illustre Magazine...
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Duplessis Orphans to be heard at Supreme Court - Quebec tragedy finally gets...
Canada's Supreme Court will judge a grievance stemming from an outrageous and grotesque scam Quebec's government perpetuated on children in the 1950s to 1970s. The Duplessis Orphans were...
View ArticleBanned from America: Nastiest NHL player fled from four years in prison -...
Jimmy Orlando was the NHLs toughest player at the start of the 1940s but the bad man was forced out of the league not by injuries from his famous, furious scraps, nor from his habit of clobbering refs...
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I settled a farm and fathered 24 kids - farmer's life in rural Quebec
Philippe Laforest tells of his life as a settler farmer in St. Nazaire, Quebec. From Rick Butler's Quebec: The People Speak, 1978
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Gangland slaying at Esplanade and Mount Royal - Charlie Feigenbaum felled in...
Charles Feigenbaum became the victim of Montreal's first-ever gangland style gangster murder on 21 August 1934.Feigenbaum was at the top of a gang of Eastern European Jewish criminals that included his...
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Starlet Sandu Scott commuted from Montreal to NYC to host weeknight variety show
Montreal was once home to a show business star who commuted to New York City to host a weeknight network prime-time TV variety show and later fronted a band with members who ended up in the Rock'n'Roll...
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Murder on Mount Royal: Montreal's Benson family was beset with relentless...
Johnnie Benson, murdered on Mt. RoyalThe triplex built in 1925 at 4833 de Grandpre (now a housing co-op) once housed an incredibly unfortunate family beset by constant and unfathomable tragedy. The...
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