Beyond Montreal

Where to go when you need a break from the city.

Beyond Montreal

Set on 275 acres near Lac Saguay, Refuge du Lièvre Rouge pairs off-grid cabins with a café-buvette, private spa, and a growing network of forest trails built around slowing down.

Beyond Montreal

This is How You Design a Space That Slows Down Time

Montreal-based hinter has spent eight years answering that question across a growing collection of architect-designed retreats.

Beyond Montreal

The Italian family that turned a Quebec sugar shack into a restaurant empire

When Rosa Fuoco's husband wanted to buy a sugar shack, she thought he was crazy. Now their sons run three restaurants, a cheese farm, and one of Quebec's top cabanes à sucre.

Beyond Montreal

The abandoned church where outsider contemporary art found a home

In a quiet village, a church has turned into a sanctuary for artists living on the margins of the world.

Beyond Montreal

How cold-climate wine is made at David McMillan's Hayfield Farm vineyard

Following the Joe Beef co-founder through two days of cold-climate viticulture harvests where hospitality takes the form of al fresco meals, crushed grapes underfoot, and relentless labour.

Beyond Montreal

Where to go when you need a break from the city.

Beyond Montreal

Set on 275 acres near Lac Saguay, Refuge du Lièvre Rouge pairs off-grid cabins with a café-buvette, private spa, and a growing network of forest trails built around slowing down.

Beyond Montreal

This is How You Design a Space That Slows Down Time

Montreal-based hinter has spent eight years answering that question across a growing collection of architect-designed retreats.

Beyond Montreal

The Italian family that turned a Quebec sugar shack into a restaurant empire

When Rosa Fuoco's husband wanted to buy a sugar shack, she thought he was crazy. Now their sons run three restaurants, a cheese farm, and one of Quebec's top cabanes à sucre.

Beyond Montreal

The abandoned church where outsider contemporary art found a home

In a quiet village, a church has turned into a sanctuary for artists living on the margins of the world.

Beyond Montreal

How cold-climate wine is made at David McMillan's Hayfield Farm vineyard

Following the Joe Beef co-founder through two days of cold-climate viticulture harvests where hospitality takes the form of al fresco meals, crushed grapes underfoot, and relentless labour.

Beyond Montreal

Firing ceramics by hand in the Laurentians with the pottery collective Goregama

Ancient technique, unpredictability, and slow, communal craft: Goregama has gathered twice a year since 2019 to feed wood into an anagama kiln for 40 hours straight.

Beyond Montreal

Inside Au Pays des Géants, the workshop behind Montreal’s most iconic parade floats

Over forty years of transforming festivals, celebrations, and streetscapes into theatre.

Beyond Montreal

Sucrerie de la Montagne & Cabane d’à Coté: Unpredictable seasons to come for maple syrup in Quebec

With the early start in 2024, producers superseded previous productions to meet demand, but the future of the industry may not always stay this bright forever.

Beyond Montreal

In search of happiness in Saint-Eustache

From flea markets to pickleball courts, a reporter retraces his roots to find out why Saint-Eustache is suddenly among Quebec’s happiest cities.

Beyond Montreal

Manoir Blackswan's Emmanuel Hébert: The international antique and art hustler straight outta Montreal

An antique dealer, builder, artist, designer, entrepreneur, high school dropout and a self-described lover of life—and the 6,500-square-foot hybrid residence-showroom he calls home.

Beyond Montreal

Step inside Pinôt Boutique Hotel, a modern countryside gîte for travellers of the Eastern Townships

Hospitality veterans Véronique Lacoursière and Florence Pelland-Goyer bring a luxurious yet down-to-earth twist to a heritage B&B 90 minutes east of Montreal.

Beyond Montreal

Firing ceramics by hand in the Laurentians with the pottery collective Goregama

Ancient technique, unpredictability, and slow, communal craft: Goregama has gathered twice a year since 2019 to feed wood into an anagama kiln for 40 hours straight.

Beyond Montreal

Inside Au Pays des Géants, the workshop behind Montreal’s most iconic parade floats

Over forty years of transforming festivals, celebrations, and streetscapes into theatre.

Beyond Montreal

Sucrerie de la Montagne & Cabane d’à Coté: Unpredictable seasons to come for maple syrup in Quebec

With the early start in 2024, producers superseded previous productions to meet demand, but the future of the industry may not always stay this bright forever.

Beyond Montreal

In search of happiness in Saint-Eustache

From flea markets to pickleball courts, a reporter retraces his roots to find out why Saint-Eustache is suddenly among Quebec’s happiest cities.

Beyond Montreal

Manoir Blackswan's Emmanuel Hébert: The international antique and art hustler straight outta Montreal

An antique dealer, builder, artist, designer, entrepreneur, high school dropout and a self-described lover of life—and the 6,500-square-foot hybrid residence-showroom he calls home.

Beyond Montreal

Step inside Pinôt Boutique Hotel, a modern countryside gîte for travellers of the Eastern Townships

Hospitality veterans Véronique Lacoursière and Florence Pelland-Goyer bring a luxurious yet down-to-earth twist to a heritage B&B 90 minutes east of Montreal.