Tag Archives: Mount Royal
Expo 1881
Many years ago when I found myself making my way towards the Tam Tams one sunny summer Sunday and wound up in the middle of a strange festival going along the Mount Royal Avenue side of Parc Jeanne-Mance. I remember … Continue reading
Posted in History and Culture, Kondiaronk - My Montréal Experience, Montréal Architecture, Montréal Landmarks, Perspectives on the City, Scenes from the City
Tagged Crystal Palace, Expo, Exposition, Fairgrounds, Festival of India, Fletcher's Field, History of Montreal, L'Opinion Publique, Mont-Royal, Montréal, Mount Royal, Parc Jeanne-Mance, Public festivals of Montreal, Quebec provincial exposition
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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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Recycling Institutional Space in the Mountain Domain
This scene is quite literally the stuff my somewhat Kafkan dreams are made of Lots of talk recently on the future of the Royal Victoria Hospital and Hotel-Dieu given that both facilities are supposed to shut down once the super-hospitals … Continue reading
Posted in A modest proposal, 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, Social commentary, Urban Redevelopment
Tagged Hotel-Dieu, Montréal, Montréal public-space, Montreal Children's Hospital, Montreal Shriners Hospital, Mount Royal, Mount-Royal Park, Royal Victoria Hospital
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Money for Nothing
The Mordecai Richler Gazebo will now cost the taxpayers of Montreal nearly three-quarters of a million dollars. And a series of granite waypoints, apparently taking the form of stylized tree-stumps, are to be installed across Mount Royal at an estimated … Continue reading →
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