Tag Archives: Montréal Culture

Montréal’s Lost Attractions – Keep this in mind for the 375th!

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

Our city has been built on birthday presents. For Canada’s Centennial Anniversary we got a Métro system and 50 million tourists in six months, not to mention world attention and twenty+ years of urban renewal and densification projects. For the … Continue reading →

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The White Horse of Fort Senneville

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

Is it me or are we lacking in ghost stories in this city? Every year Halloween comes around and I get asked if I know any decent local ghost stories. Each year I come up short. It’s a problem for … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Occupy Montréal

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

A couple of weeks ago I took a walk with my roommate down to Square Victoria in the middle of a downpour to see if the police had taken any precautions, set up barriers or were otherwise surveilling the area … Continue reading →

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Kondiaronk Book Review – Saturday Night at the Bagel Factory

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

Don Bell was what you might consider a kind of boulevardier back in the 1960s and 1970s, keeping abreast of the freaks and geeks which make urban living so goddam enjoyable. He compiled a variety of anecdotes into the aforementioned … Continue reading →

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Scenes from Occupy Montr̩al РPhotographs VI

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

To see a series of photographs from yesterday’s Occupy Montréal demonstration, click here, or click on the photographs tab above and go down to collection VI. I’ll write up my thoughts on the day later on. Still decompressing from an … Continue reading →

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Let’s make this an election issue {no.4} – Montréal’s Victoria Rink, birthplace of hockey.

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Taylor C. Noakes

So a recent article on Coolopolis piqued my curiosity. It features an interview Kristian Gravenor did with a man by the name of Billy Georgette, who has been doggedly pursuing local officials, politicians and people of influence to do something … Continue reading →

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