Simon Fraser House, ancient West Island landmark, likely to become a private...
West Island entrepreneur Chris McLean tells Coolopolis that he's not sure what he'll do with his recent purchase, the 225-year-old landmark Simon Fraser House in Ste. Anne de Bellevue that had...
View ArticleSeparatist Park Ex MNA accused of luring refugees campaign workers with false...
Chilean-Quebec separatist Andres Fontecilla, who represents the Park Ex (Laurier Dorion) riding in the Naitonal Assembly, has been posting many photos of himself with residents from ethnic...
View ArticlePointe aux Trembles axe murder of 1973
Rejean Tousignant, 36, and his wife Monique Martel or Monique Tousignant were living with their four boys and one girl, all aged between 6 and 15, at 684 Colombier street in east end montreal's Pointe...
View ArticleJean-Guy Dubois of the brutal Dubois Brothers gang has died
Jean-Guy Dubois, second oldest of the infamous Dubois brother crime crew of St. Henri, has died at around the age of 88, Coolopolis has learned. Dubois, we are told, died "not long ago," so the...
View ArticleMore amazing pics of trams in Montreal
St. Catherine heading west just east of PeelSt Catherine just east of FrontenacSouth Shore St Lambert McGill Street
View ArticleScully mystery: brothers from a respectable Montreal family died violent,...
A pair of English Montreal brothers died inexplicable and violent deaths over a six-month span starting just before Christmas 1976. The duo of deathly disaster triggered head scratching that...
View ArticleHard to find a place to stay in Montreal in the cold of winter? Here's a...
Bridget Maddigan (1846-1909) offers a lesson for those who seek a surefire method of avoiding paying rent for the cold winter months. Maddigan made the news many times over the decades in Montreal...
View ArticleVictims of unsolved 1960 murder in St. Michel: why the hands-in-pockets?
Rejean Raymond, 22, and Arsene Malo, 37, were shot dead execution-style with bullets to the head on October 4, 1960 behind an apartment building at 8225 24th Ave. St. Michel. This horrific photo of...
View ArticleWhy Mafioso Jimmy DiMaulo killed Blass-associate Robert Allard: Tales from a...
Gilles Bienvenue Canadian crime observers all know the tale of Richard Blass, whose reckless campaign against his enemies in the Italian mob led him to kill many, and escape prison repeatedly before...
View ArticleRemember the police training facility on Poupart Street in the East End? Nor...
You might not have passed by 550 Poupart lately or even in this lifetime. I'm certainly not saying that you should pass by there either. But it was an essential stop for would-be cops from 1961 to...
View ArticleImages of postward Montreal 1945-1948
Scene from a Montreal fruit market. St. James and St. Lawrence. Safe tumbles from truck.Kids cooling off, somewhere in Montreal. Old guy reading in Montreal, location unknown. Mom and baby doze...
View ArticleHow race car driver Eligio Siconolfi - father-in-law of soccer celeb Sandro...
Sandro Grande has been in the news lately, as the retired soccer player was cancelled for social media stuff and was prevented from taking a job as a coach. So a little background on Sandro...
View ArticleKung Fu king criminal lawyer didn't back off from West End Gang thugs
Michael Quigley blew the scales off IQ tests and kung fu competitions and also served as a criminal lawyer. Quigley was from Montreal and studied law at McGill while also practicing martial arts...
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