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

From dynasty to drought: a brief-ish look at the making of Montreal's most devotional sports franchise.

History Lesson

Were the Summer Games a triumph, a total failure, or somewhere in between?

History Lesson

A near-forgotten movie palace that's outlasted demolition plans, disco dreams, and decades of decline to become one of Montreal’s most resilient cultural landmarks.

History Lesson

The story of Rufus Rockhead, the Jamaican-born railway porter who built Montreal's most legendary jazz club—and spent decades defending it.

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

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

History Lesson

From dynasty to drought: a brief-ish look at the making of Montreal's most devotional sports franchise.

History Lesson

Were the Summer Games a triumph, a total failure, or somewhere in between?

History Lesson

A near-forgotten movie palace that's outlasted demolition plans, disco dreams, and decades of decline to become one of Montreal’s most resilient cultural landmarks.

History Lesson

The story of Rufus Rockhead, the Jamaican-born railway porter who built Montreal's most legendary jazz club—and spent decades defending it.

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

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