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Great read, lots of wonderful memories of these iconic locations. Time to re-discover them all over again!
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An eclectic collection of Montreal businesses approaching, reaching, and surpassing the 100-year mark.
July 9, 2026 · 7 min read
An eclectic collection of Montreal businesses approaching, reaching, and surpassing the 100-year mark.
July 9, 2026 · 7 min read
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Great read, lots of wonderful memories of these iconic locations. Time to re-discover them all over again!
This story originally appeared in a special edition The Main x URBANIA Micromag. Read the full collection here.
The steamé, the bagel, the hat trick—so woven into the texture of Montreal life that they barely register as belonging to anyone. Maybe that’s because it comes from places that have been around for so long that their impact on the city is timeless.
Take Henri Henri hat shop owner, Jean Maurice Lefebvre, who in 1947 started walking onto the ice at the Montreal Forum to hand a brand-new hat to any player from any team who scored three goals in a game. The expression "hat trick" traces back to that gesture, to a shop on Sainte-Catherine that opened in 1932 and is still open today. The tradition still stands for any Habs player who completes one. Generations of Montrealers have used that phrase, possibly without ever knowing where it came from.
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This story originally appeared in a special edition The Main x URBANIA Micromag. Read the full collection here.
The steamé, the bagel, the hat trick—so woven into the texture of Montreal life that they barely register as belonging to anyone. Maybe that’s because it comes from places that have been around for so long that their impact on the city is timeless.
Take Henri Henri hat shop owner, Jean Maurice Lefebvre, who in 1947 started walking onto the ice at the Montreal Forum to hand a brand-new hat to any player from any team who scored three goals in a game. The expression "hat trick" traces back to that gesture, to a shop on Sainte-Catherine that opened in 1932 and is still open today. The tradition still stands for any Habs player who completes one. Generations of Montrealers have used that phrase, possibly without ever knowing where it came from.
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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.
On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.
The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.
Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.
Opening alongside Expo 67, the social club drew 2,000 Bunny hopefuls and booked acts like Tony Bennett before vanishing within a decade.
Raised in Little Burgundy, the pianist took Montreal jazz around the world and helped the next generation carry it on.
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.
On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.
The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.
Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.
Opening alongside Expo 67, the social club drew 2,000 Bunny hopefuls and booked acts like Tony Bennett before vanishing within a decade.
Raised in Little Burgundy, the pianist took Montreal jazz around the world and helped the next generation carry it on.
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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.
In so many ways, Montreal jazz exists because Daisy Peterson Sweeney both masters and generations of kids in Little Burgundy.
A century-long story of how a neighbourhood grew from railroad workers to family legacies everywhere you look today.
The St. Lawrence River, French colonial planning, and centuries of habit created a directional system where “north” has almost nothing to do with a compass.
On July 14, 1987, two hours of rain drowned the Décarie, shut down the métro, and became the storm so many Montreal floods are still measured against.
Montreal's last (and Canada's only) Egyptian Revival movie palace reinvented itself for decades. Now it's been empty for 33 years.
From our archive.
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.
In so many ways, Montreal jazz exists because Daisy Peterson Sweeney both masters and generations of kids in Little Burgundy.
A century-long story of how a neighbourhood grew from railroad workers to family legacies everywhere you look today.
The St. Lawrence River, French colonial planning, and centuries of habit created a directional system where “north” has almost nothing to do with a compass.
On July 14, 1987, two hours of rain drowned the Décarie, shut down the métro, and became the storm so many Montreal floods are still measured against.
Montreal's last (and Canada's only) Egyptian Revival movie palace reinvented itself for decades. Now it's been empty for 33 years.
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Great read, lots of wonderful memories of these iconic locations. Time to re-discover them all over again!