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Montreal and Southern Counties Railway
--February 20, 2019. Transit service to the South Shore
Trivia Quiz: Mount Royal Park, Mount Royal Model City and Surrounding Area (Answers)
--February 4, 2019. 1. c. Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR). This company built the Mount Royal tunnel in 1912 and would merge with the Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1923 in large part due to this cost of this project. 2. d. All of the above 3. d. All of the above 4. a. The Quiet Revolution. At this stage in Quebec’s history, some Francophones began to move into wealthier urban communities such as Mount Royal that had traditionally been anglophone dominated.
Trivia Quiz: Mount Royal Park, Mount Royal Model City and Surrounding Area
--February 4, 2019. 1. By which Canadian railway company was chief engineer Henry Wicksteed, the man who planned and organised the construction of the Mount Royal tunnel, employed? a. Canadian Pacific Railway b. Canadian National Railway c. Canadian Northern Railway d. Grand Trunk Railway
Story of sleeping car porters demonstrates Quebec's racist past
--November 20, 2017. Quebec might not have had a system of whites-only signage, as in the southern United States during the Jim Crow era, or any immediate plans to build a wall to keep out our neighbours, but we do have a history of slavery and racism.
You are Driving on Sacred Ground: Montreal's Irish Memorial Park
--March 20, 2017. Most people driving into Montreal have no idea that the road exiting off the Victoria Bridge runs over the burial place for 6,000 Irish immigrants. Even most Montrealers are unaware of the significance of the large black stone sitting in the median at that same exit.
La villégiature anglophone au Québec : Métis-sur-Mer
--le 2 mai 2016. *Tamara Guillemette est étudiante en histoire à l’Université de Sherbrooke. En stage au RPAQ durant l’année 2016, elle produira une série d’articles sur la villégiature dans les villages anglophones du Québec qui sera mise en ligne dans les magazines électroniques du RPAQ. L’article qui suit est le cinquième de la série.
La villégiature anglophone au Québec : Montebello
--le 2 mai 2016. *Tamara Guillemette est étudiante en histoire à l’Université de Sherbrooke. En stage au RPAQ durant l’année 2016, elle produira une série d’articles sur la villégiature dans les villages anglophones du Québec qui sera mise en ligne dans les magazines électroniques du RPAQ. L’article qui suit est le quatrième de la série.
La villégiature anglophone au Québec : Cacouna
--le 23 mars 2016. *Tamara Guillemette est étudiante en histoire à l’Université de Sherbrooke. En stage au RPAQ durant l’année 2016, elle produira une série d’articles sur la villégiature dans les villages anglophones du Québec qui sera mise en ligne dans les magazines électroniques du RPAQ. L’article qui suit est le troisième de la série.
La villégiature anglophone au Québec : La Malbaie (Murray Bay)
--le 1 mars 2016. *Tamara Guillemette est étudiante en histoire à l’Université de Sherbrooke. En stage au RPAQ durant l’année 2016, elle produira une série d’articles sur la villégiature dans les villages anglophones du Québec qui sera mise en ligne dans les magazines électroniques du RPAQ. L’article qui suit est le deuxième de la série.
La villégiature anglophone au Québec : North Hatley
--le 22 février 2016. *Tamara Guillemette est étudiante en histoire à l’Université de Sherbrooke. En stage au RPAQ durant l’année 2016, elle produira une série d’articles sur la villégiature dans les villages anglophones du Québec qui sera mise en ligne dans les magazines électroniques du RPAQ. L’article qui suit est le premier de la série.
Victoria Exchange Building, Pointe-Saint-Charles
--December 8, 2015. The Victoria Exchange Building, Pointe-Saint-Charles District, Montreal. History and description of 2551 Rue de Châteauguay, Montréal (The building number in 1929-30 was 211; in Lovell's Montréal Directory from 1930-31 on it was 2551.) Pointe-Saint-Charles
Food Will Win the War: Home Cooks in Montreal, 1939-1945, Part III
October 19, 2015. The following is the first instalment in a series written by Sandra Stock, as part of QAHN's project, Housewife Heroines: Anglophone Women at Home in Montreal during World War II, which has been funded through the World War Commemorations Community Fund.
Food Will Win the War: Home Cooks in Montreal, 1939-1945, Part II
October 13, 2015. The following is the first installment in a series written by Sandra Stock, as part of QAHN's project, Housewife Heroines: Anglophone Women at Home in Montreal during World War II, which has been funded through the Department of Canadian Heritage's World War Commemorations Community Fund.
Food Will Win the War: Home Cooks in Montreal, 1939-1945 – Part I
--October 8, 2015. The following is the first installment in a series written by Sandra Stock, as part of QAHN's project, Housewife Heroines: Anglophone Women at Home in Montreal during World War II, which has been funded through the Department of Canadian Heritage's World War Commemorations Community Fund.
Ice Palaces of Montreal
Since the time of earliest settlement, the greatest unsolved challenge facing Montrealers has been what to do about winter. Winter has determined our culture and history probably more than any other natural or human factor. It's tough. It's not for sissies. Thus its necessary survival requirements have created many unique material and social inventions.
Going Up, Down and Through Mount Royal
Mount Royal: as mountains go, it's not very big – only 233 meters (764 feet) in height on the main summit, and a diminutive 211 meters ( 692 feet) on the Outremont peak and an even less 201 meters (659 feet) for the Westmount peak lookout.
Sam Robinson: St. Hubert’s Very English Mayor
While much has been made in the media about Montreal having its first English mayor in a hundred years . Mayor Michael Applebaum is not the only English-speaking person to serve as mayor of a majority Francophone city in Quebec over the last century. In South Shore St.
Honourable Mention, QAHN 2012 Heritage Essay Conest: "Fort Chambly"
As I entered the Fort Chambly, old ghosts of people seemed to appear. I see some putting cannonballs in cannons and then light the wick. The sound is awfully loud! A tour guide then tells me about the history of the Fort Chambly… Fort Chambly was fist built in 1665. There were 4 forts. The first one was in wood. It was unfortunately too old so, they needed to replace it. They replaced it by another one in wood. It then accidentally burnt. Because the wood fort couldn’t protect itself from cannonballs and other explosives, they replaced the wood fort by a stone fort.
Remembering the Town of Montreal South
The City of Montreal is flanked on both sides by the towns of Montreal East and Montreal West, each with their own different character. Even after the municipal mergers of 2002 , the former city of Montreal North remains a separate borough on the island map.