Category Archives: Cultural commentary
Griffintown co-op to be rebuilt; residents offered accommodation at nearby condo project
Some late breaking good news. It appears the now homeless former residents of the Saint Anne housing co-op in Griffintown have caught a break after several days of devastating news. To recap, the residents were evacuated from their homes this … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, Commentary, Cultural commentary, History and Culture, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Let's make this an election issue, Montréal Architecture, Montréal Landmarks, Perspectives on the City, Social commentary, Urban Redevelopment, Worth reconsidering
Tagged Architectural preservation, Bassins du Havre, Brickfields, condominiums, Empress Theater, Griffintown, Lachine Canal, Lafontaine House, Le Brickfields, Lord Mount Stephen, Montréal, Mount Stephen Club, Mount Stephen Hotel, Mount Stephen House, Mountain Street, Overdale, Redpath House, Saint Lawrence Seaway, Serge Joyal, Snowdon Theatre, Square Mile, Urban Development, Victoria Bridge, Victorian Montreal
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Tourisme Montréal actively soliciting Ripley’s to build aquarium, believe it or not.
A La Presse exclusive reports Tourisme Montréal is actively pursuing the Jim Pattison Group to develop an aquarium here in Montreal. Pattison owns the Ripley’s Aquarium in Toronto, as well as Ripley’s Entertainment of Orlando. As Réjean Bourdeau points out, … Continue reading
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Tagged 375MTL, Alcan Aquarium, Aquarium, Biodome, Biosphere, Expo 67, Granby Zoo, Ile-Ste-Helene, Jim Pattison Group, La Presse, La Ronde, Montréal, Montreal 375, Montreal Aquarium, MTL375, Old Port, Old Port of Montréal, Parc Jean-Drapeau, Ripley's, Ripley's Aquarium, Ripley's Entertainment, Société du Vieux Port de Montréal, Tourisme Montréal, Urban Development, Vieux-Port, Vieux-Port de Montréal
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Three-Alarm Fire Nearly Destroys Historic Snowdon Theatre
That was a close one. According to the Journal de Montréal, the fire at Montreal’s historic Snowdon Theatre, though severe, was not so bad it weakened the structure. Damage seems to have been concentrated on the roof. The three-alarm blaze … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, Arts & the City, Commentary, Cultural commentary, Economic commentary, History and Culture, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Let's make this an election issue, Montréal Architecture, Montréal Landmarks, Perspectives on the City, Scenes from the City, Urban Redevelopment, Worth reconsidering
Tagged Architectural Preservation in Montreal, Architecture of Montreal, Art Deco, Boulevard Décarie, CDN-NDG, Cinemas of Montreal, City of Montreal, Cote-des-Neiges, Decarie Boulevard, Emmanuel Briffa, Heritage buildings of Montreal, Montréal, Montréal Design, Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Snowdon, Snowdon Theatre, Streamline Moderne, Theatre Snowdon, Theatres of Montreal
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Abandoning the Maison Radio-Canada is as unwise as it is unethical
So once upon a time there was a large, densely populated working class neighbourhood just east of Old Montreal informally called the ‘Faubourg à m’lasse’. The estimate is that in the early 1960s roughly 5,000 people lived there occupying 678 … Continue reading
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Tagged Architecture of Montreal, Centre-Sud, Daoust Lestage architects, Landmarks of Montreal, Maison Radio-Canada, Mélanie Joly, Montréal Urban Planning, Radio-Canada
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City describes its own urban redevelopment project as ‘ambitious’
We may have come full-circle. The City of Montreal recently released what it is describing as an ‘ambitious’ plan to redevelop the urban core of the city – what we ambiguously, perhaps ambitiously, call Downtown (though it for the most … Continue reading →
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