1912-2008 Construit en 1912, derrière le marché Bonsecours, le silo à grain # 2 était alors décrit dans les journaux comme étant un des plus gros silo du monde. Cet ensemble dont la structure était entièrement conçu en béton armé fut démoli en 1978 suite à l’élaboration du projet : «vue sur le fleuve».

Vers 1960-2008 En guise de complément à l’article publié en décembre 2007 : «Plaza Saint-Hubert before the green awning»

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Saw this sign two or three weeks ago, but it was only tonight that I had my camera with me to snap a picture. I literally fell down my virtual chair when I saw this sign posted next to Schwartz’s. In terms of Montreal food landmarks, there is none other next to Schwartz’s and its delicious melt in the mouth smoked meat (always get the large fat), besides maybe La Banquise’s poutine or the St-Viateur/Fairmount ...

Photo taken August 24th on Rivard, between Rachel and Marie Anne

Our Street Was Paved with Gold Albert Kish, 1973, 28 min 37 sec “Filmmaker Albert Kish revisits Montreal’s St Lawrence Boulevard - the Main - the road from the docks to the heart of immigrant Canada. This is a little Europe, a street of many languages, foods, and small courtesies that make a stranger feel at home. For the filmmaker his prevailing memory is of the seventeen steps of a walk-up apartment, but for all ...

Gas station under construction at Beaubien Rosemont and Christophe-Colomb.

Concordia’s EV building and an apartment building behind it. September 13, 2005

The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, started in the 1980s and digitized gradually over the last 10 years, now has over 18,000 maps available online. One of the maps, Montreal 1815, can be overlaid with varying transparency on Google Maps to demonstrate the tiny boundaries of 1815 Montreal compared to today’s metropolis. There are so many ways to view this massive collection I can’t even begin to make a recommendation (the site itself could use ...

Vers 1984-2008 Construit en 1929, le théâtre Monkland, qui comportait alors 1500 places fut le premier théâtre au Canada à être conçu spécialement pour le cinéma parlant. En 1985, l’intérieur du théâtre fut totalement détruit et l’édifice est utilisé depuis à des fins commerciales.

It’s been a little over a year since Spacing Montreal was officially launched. Since then, our readership has grown quickly, to nearly 2,000 unique visitors per day, and we’ve tackled a number of topics that were under-represented or absent in Montreal’s media. Soon, though, a number of Spacing contributors will move on: Thomas Bernard-Kenniff is leaving for London, Christopher DeWolf is moving to Hong Kong and Misha Warbanski has already left for Whitehorse. We need ...

Flashmob and urban prank enthusiasts will want to head down to Phillips Square on Saturday, where a mischievous/playful group of people will be staging a “bubble battle” at 4pm. Here’s more information from the event’s Facebook page: This Saturday, come blow bubbles with us at Phillips Square. Watch people’s eyes light up as millions of bubbles soar majestically through the air. Bring friends, cameras and, of course, what you need to create bubbles I guess ...

I’m in Calgary at the moment, en route to Hong Kong, where I will be doing a master’s degree for the next couple of years. This is a fast-growing, fast-changing city, and there are a couple of interesting changes that I noticed while I was here. One of them is the introduction of two new scramble crossings in the Eau Claire neighbourhood of the city’s downtown area. Often associated with Tokyo’s famous Shibuya Crossing, scramble ...

Earlier this month, Montreal City’s Kate McDonnell took a trip with her friend Ben Soo to Montreal East, where they poked around the vast industrial areas that make up most of the small, overlooked town on the east end of Montreal Island. Kate posted some shots on Urbanphoto and wrote a bit about the place: There’s always a tang of sulphur in the air from the hydrocarbon cracking. The streets are in poor shape and ...

1924-2008 Vers 1915, l’exploitation cinématographique est en plein essor. Ainsi donc, les cinémas de type «super palaces» conçu pour attirer une clientèle plus aisées firent leur apparition à Montréal. Construit en 1917, le cinéma Loew’s était alors doté de toutes les caractéristique d’un «super palace». On y accédait depuis la rue Sainte-Catherine par un immeuble de faible envergure qui donnait sur un hall tout en longueur. La salle de spectacle était dotée d’un foyer principal ...

Who doesn’t remember Roadsworth, the artist whose quirky street-and-sidewalk stencils vaulted him into street art stardom in 2004 after he ran into trouble with the law? Since then, Peter Gibson—the artist’s real name—has made a living working in a perfectly legal capacity with City Hall and various other public organizations. Last spring, the Commission scolaire de Montréal commissioned him to redesign a concrete schoolyard at Bernard and St. Urbain; in the fall, the Ville-Marie borough ...

Old diner sign, now gone, on Sherbrooke near Concordia’s Loyola campus. March 29, 2007

Last August, Thomas-Bernard Kenniff wrote about the “bâtiments fantômes” you see around town. Here’s a particularly nice example in a downtown parking lot next to the Hôtel de la Montagne. May 31, 2008

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