Tag Archives: Landmarks of Montreal
Nothing succeeds like excess
The City of Montreal has announced plans to renovate the northernmost section of Dorchester Square at an estimated cost of $4.2 million. A $700,000 contract was awarded to noted local landscape architect Claude Cormier to prepare the design and tender … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, Commentary, Cultural commentary, Economic commentary, History and Culture, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Montréal Architecture, Montréal Landmarks, Perspectives on the City, Urban Redevelopment
Tagged city beautification, city squares of Montreal, Dominion Square Building, Dorchester Square, Landmarks of Montreal, Place du Canada, public spaces in Montreal, Urban Redevelopment
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The Future of Institutional Space in the Mountain Domain
An important public forum will take place at the Maison Smith up on Mount Royal Thursday night beginning at 18h00 and dealing with the future of the soon to be vacated hospitals within the ‘Mountain Domain’. The forum will be … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, Commentary, Cultural commentary, Economic commentary, History and Culture, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Let's make this an election issue, Montréal Architecture, Montréal Landmarks, Political commentary, Social commentary, Urban Redevelopment, Worth reconsidering
Tagged Architecture of Montreal, Culture of Montreal, History of Montreal, Hospitals of Montreal, Landmarks of Montreal, Lord Mount Stephen, Lord Strathcona, McGill University, Montréal Hospitals, Mount Royal, Mount-Royal Park, MUHC, Parc Lafontaine, Royal Victoria Hospital
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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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