History Lesson

You may not recognize the name, but the Montreal architect’s curved facades, vanished theatres, churches, and landmark apartment buildings remain woven into the city’s everyday landscape.

History Lesson

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Once known as the historic Mount Royal Hotel, the Les Cours Mont-Royal is seeing renewed demand as its overlooked office spaces fill up and tenants move in.

History Lesson

What began as a complaint about grading bias escalated into a two-week occupation, a fire, and one of the most consequential reckonings with institutional racism in Canadian higher education.

History Lesson

In the summer of 1930, a British airship the length of two and a half Boeing 747s locked onto a mooring mast on the South Shore. Nearly a million people came to watch.

History Lesson

How a 1970 law, a Rosemont grocer, and generations of immigrant families created Montreal's most essential institution.

History Lesson

The shamrock has been on Montreal's coat of arms since 1832, and the pub culture that followed has been here just as long.

History Lesson

How a Bulgarian immigrant's billiard hall became one of Montreal's most enduring institutions, from pimp steaks to late night eats infamy.

History Lesson

How a Romanian immigrant's recipe and stubborn refusal to change built Montreal's most iconic sandwich.

History Lesson

Jazz legends, burlesque queens, and organized crime made it one of the most alive corners in North America. Then Montreal decided it had a reputation to protect.

History Lesson

When Kon Tiki brought post-war escapism and Hollywood's idea of the South Pacific to Peel Street, it created an exotic escape unlike any other.

History Lesson

From exile to empire, this is how a tiny St-Laurent nightclub became the global heartbeat of African music in Montreal.

History Lesson

On Tête de Cheval soap, stubborn French-Canadian industrialists, and the fire that just gutted a quiet landmark.

History Lesson

You may not recognize the name, but the Montreal architect’s curved facades, vanished theatres, churches, and landmark apartment buildings remain woven into the city’s everyday landscape.

History Lesson

Sponsored

Once known as the historic Mount Royal Hotel, the Les Cours Mont-Royal is seeing renewed demand as its overlooked office spaces fill up and tenants move in.

History Lesson

What began as a complaint about grading bias escalated into a two-week occupation, a fire, and one of the most consequential reckonings with institutional racism in Canadian higher education.

History Lesson

In the summer of 1930, a British airship the length of two and a half Boeing 747s locked onto a mooring mast on the South Shore. Nearly a million people came to watch.

History Lesson

How a 1970 law, a Rosemont grocer, and generations of immigrant families created Montreal's most essential institution.

History Lesson

The shamrock has been on Montreal's coat of arms since 1832, and the pub culture that followed has been here just as long.

History Lesson

How a Bulgarian immigrant's billiard hall became one of Montreal's most enduring institutions, from pimp steaks to late night eats infamy.

History Lesson

How a Romanian immigrant's recipe and stubborn refusal to change built Montreal's most iconic sandwich.

History Lesson

Jazz legends, burlesque queens, and organized crime made it one of the most alive corners in North America. Then Montreal decided it had a reputation to protect.

History Lesson

When Kon Tiki brought post-war escapism and Hollywood's idea of the South Pacific to Peel Street, it created an exotic escape unlike any other.

History Lesson

From exile to empire, this is how a tiny St-Laurent nightclub became the global heartbeat of African music in Montreal.

History Lesson

On Tête de Cheval soap, stubborn French-Canadian industrialists, and the fire that just gutted a quiet landmark.