History Lesson

Behind Quebec’s bring-your-own-wine restaurants is a decades-old conflict between cheaper nights out and the economics of staying open.

History Lesson

North America’s largest non-profit housing community grew out of decades of tenant organizing. Half a century later, there is still nothing else like it.

History Lesson

Opened unfinished and deep in debt in 1893, the Monument-National went on to host Yiddish theatre, Chinese opera, public education, and generations of performers.

History Lesson

On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.

History Lesson

The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.

History Lesson

Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.

History Lesson

Behind Quebec’s bring-your-own-wine restaurants is a decades-old conflict between cheaper nights out and the economics of staying open.

History Lesson

North America’s largest non-profit housing community grew out of decades of tenant organizing. Half a century later, there is still nothing else like it.

History Lesson

Opened unfinished and deep in debt in 1893, the Monument-National went on to host Yiddish theatre, Chinese opera, public education, and generations of performers.

History Lesson

On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.

History Lesson

The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.

History Lesson

Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.

History Lesson

Montreal's last (and Canada's only) Egyptian Revival movie palace reinvented itself for decades. Now it's been empty for 33 years.

History Lesson

From a country road out of a fortified colony to a corridor of immigrants, artists, labour organizers, gangsters, and entrepreneurs, Saint-Laurent Boulevard tells the story of Montreal better than any other street.

History Lesson

In so many ways, Montreal jazz exists because Daisy Peterson Sweeney both masters and generations of kids in Little Burgundy.

History Lesson

The law demanded they learn anatomy but made dissection illegal, so for nearly a century, stolen corpses were tobogganed down Mount Royal to a folk hero janitor who paid cash, no questions asked.

History Lesson

Billions in gold and securities sat three storeys beneath Sun Life while 5,000 employees worked overhead, completely oblivious.

History Lesson

Raised in Little Burgundy, the pianist took Montreal jazz around the world and helped the next generation carry it on.

History Lesson

Montreal's last (and Canada's only) Egyptian Revival movie palace reinvented itself for decades. Now it's been empty for 33 years.

History Lesson

From a country road out of a fortified colony to a corridor of immigrants, artists, labour organizers, gangsters, and entrepreneurs, Saint-Laurent Boulevard tells the story of Montreal better than any other street.

History Lesson

In so many ways, Montreal jazz exists because Daisy Peterson Sweeney both masters and generations of kids in Little Burgundy.

History Lesson

The law demanded they learn anatomy but made dissection illegal, so for nearly a century, stolen corpses were tobogganed down Mount Royal to a folk hero janitor who paid cash, no questions asked.

History Lesson

Billions in gold and securities sat three storeys beneath Sun Life while 5,000 employees worked overhead, completely oblivious.

History Lesson

Raised in Little Burgundy, the pianist took Montreal jazz around the world and helped the next generation carry it on.