History Lesson

You may not recognize the name, but the Montreal architect’s curved facades, vanished theatres, churches, and landmark apartment buildings remain woven into the city’s everyday landscape.

History Lesson

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Once known as the historic Mount Royal Hotel, the Les Cours Mont-Royal is seeing renewed demand as its overlooked office spaces fill up and tenants move in.

History Lesson

What began as a complaint about grading bias escalated into a two-week occupation, a fire, and one of the most consequential reckonings with institutional racism in Canadian higher education.

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

A backstage encounter at a Montreal theatre, a few punches, a death six weeks later. The cause remains disputed.

History Lesson

How a 1970 law, a Rosemont grocer, and generations of immigrant families created Montreal's most essential institution.

History Lesson

You may not recognize the name, but the Montreal architect’s curved facades, vanished theatres, churches, and landmark apartment buildings remain woven into the city’s everyday landscape.

History Lesson

Sponsored

Once known as the historic Mount Royal Hotel, the Les Cours Mont-Royal is seeing renewed demand as its overlooked office spaces fill up and tenants move in.

History Lesson

What began as a complaint about grading bias escalated into a two-week occupation, a fire, and one of the most consequential reckonings with institutional racism in Canadian higher education.

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

A backstage encounter at a Montreal theatre, a few punches, a death six weeks later. The cause remains disputed.

History Lesson

How a 1970 law, a Rosemont grocer, and generations of immigrant families created Montreal's most essential institution.

History Lesson

The story of Rufus Rockhead, the Jamaican-born railway porter who built Montreal's most legendary jazz club—and spent decades defending it.

History Lesson

How a Romanian immigrant's recipe and stubborn refusal to change built Montreal's most iconic sandwich.

History Lesson

From its 1945 opening to a 1984 closure and its present-day hotel, the Décarie Boulevard institution was where Montreal went to see and be seen.

History Lesson

A century-long story of how a neighbourhood grew from railroad workers to family legacies everywhere you look today.

History Lesson

Built from 500-pound blocks of ice pulled from the St. Lawrence, the Neo-Gothic castles dazzled international crowds while reinforcing who really held power.

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

The story of Rufus Rockhead, the Jamaican-born railway porter who built Montreal's most legendary jazz club—and spent decades defending it.

History Lesson

How a Romanian immigrant's recipe and stubborn refusal to change built Montreal's most iconic sandwich.

History Lesson

From its 1945 opening to a 1984 closure and its present-day hotel, the Décarie Boulevard institution was where Montreal went to see and be seen.

History Lesson

A century-long story of how a neighbourhood grew from railroad workers to family legacies everywhere you look today.

History Lesson

Built from 500-pound blocks of ice pulled from the St. Lawrence, the Neo-Gothic castles dazzled international crowds while reinforcing who really held power.

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.