History Lesson

Behind Quebec’s bring-your-own-wine restaurants is a decades-old conflict between cheaper nights out and the economics of staying open.

History Lesson

North America’s largest non-profit housing community grew out of decades of tenant organizing. Half a century later, there is still nothing else like it.

History Lesson

Opened unfinished and deep in debt in 1893, the Monument-National went on to host Yiddish theatre, Chinese opera, public education, and generations of performers.

History Lesson

On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.

History Lesson

The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.

History Lesson

Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.

History Lesson

Behind Quebec’s bring-your-own-wine restaurants is a decades-old conflict between cheaper nights out and the economics of staying open.

History Lesson

North America’s largest non-profit housing community grew out of decades of tenant organizing. Half a century later, there is still nothing else like it.

History Lesson

Opened unfinished and deep in debt in 1893, the Monument-National went on to host Yiddish theatre, Chinese opera, public education, and generations of performers.

History Lesson

On the origins of Expo’s grand humanist theme, and how it lived on for 17 strange summers after the fair ended.

History Lesson

The nightlife of clandestine cabarets and roving parties alike created essential queer space of belonging and resistance over generations in Montreal.

History Lesson

Fifty years later, Montreal’s forgotten Olympic infrastructure hides in plain sight.

History Lesson

Montreal's last (and Canada's only) Egyptian Revival movie palace reinvented itself for decades. Now it's been empty for 33 years.

History Lesson

From dynasty to drought: a brief-ish look at the making of Montreal's most devotional sports franchise.

History Lesson

In the summer of 1930, a British airship the length of two and a half Boeing 747s locked onto a mooring mast on the South Shore. Nearly a million people came to watch.

History Lesson

The 200-year story of a street that's always belonged to everyone and no one.

History Lesson

As Mount Royal Park turns 150, the story of its creation reveals how Olmsted's vision for the mountain was compromised almost from the very beginning.

History Lesson

The Harlem of the North, Little Burgundy, raised a legend. It took 100 years to say it as loudly as possible from the city's rooftops.

History Lesson

Montreal's last (and Canada's only) Egyptian Revival movie palace reinvented itself for decades. Now it's been empty for 33 years.

History Lesson

From dynasty to drought: a brief-ish look at the making of Montreal's most devotional sports franchise.

History Lesson

In the summer of 1930, a British airship the length of two and a half Boeing 747s locked onto a mooring mast on the South Shore. Nearly a million people came to watch.

History Lesson

The 200-year story of a street that's always belonged to everyone and no one.

History Lesson

As Mount Royal Park turns 150, the story of its creation reveals how Olmsted's vision for the mountain was compromised almost from the very beginning.

History Lesson

The Harlem of the North, Little Burgundy, raised a legend. It took 100 years to say it as loudly as possible from the city's rooftops.