Tag Archives: Mount Royal

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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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

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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

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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

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