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Early Days in St. Lambert: Daisy Wickham (1881-1980) remembers…

When married and still living in Montreal, Mother [Mary Ann Swift Wickham] took us children to St. Lambert when ill in summer. She boarded at an inn on the riverbank kept by the Irvings and known as Irving’s Hotel. This was then a roadhouse, where farmers passing to market in the city by ferry, or ice-bridge, stopped to refresh themselves. St. Lambert air was thought to cure “summer complaint” a cause of great infant mortality in those days. The sufferer was rowed upon the river. However, the fresh milk obtainable was more likely the cause of improvement.

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Knight of Higher Learning: Macdonald College founder turned tobacco riches into legacy of Canadian scholarship

Macdonald College in Ste. Anne de Bellevue is remembered as a bequest of Sir William Christopher Macdonald, and it was a gift of extraordinary generosity. Not only did he perceive the need for an agricultural and teaching college, but he also acquired the land, ordered the design of the buildings, paid the costs of construction and endowed the institution. The college was only one of many gifts from possibly the most generous philanthropist in the history of our country. What do we really know about the man and his own history?

The Bagg Shul: A living history of Montreal’s early Jewish community

A cornerstone of Montreal’s immigrant heritage stands at the corner of Bagg and Clark streets in Montreal’s now-trendy Plateau district.

Griffintown and Point St. Charles Heritage Trail

Griffintown and Point St. Charles were Canada’s first industrial slums, home to Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famines and generations of their descendants.

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It’s impossible to be bored by Montreal, but it’s easy to be overwhelmed—by our amazing history, diverse culture and vibrant arts scene.

Montreal Mosaic is a place to rediscover your city. A meeting place: a place for sharing stories, a place for personal reflections and community perspectives on the past, present and future of a great Canadian metropolis. It’s a place to explore, question and celebrate English-Montreal’s evolving cultural identities.

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A wide array of voices as already contributed to Montreal Mosaic by providing their personal reflections. These stories examine how people and groups fit into and add to the social fabric of Greater Montreal, what identity or identities they’ve adopted, and how this city has shaped them.

Carte de l'île de Montréal (1834)

Désignant les chemins publics, les paroisses, les fiefs et les villages qui s'y trouvent, le Canal Lachine, les différentes parties de l'île qui ne sont pas encore en état de culture, etc., etc.

Faite en 1834 par A. Jobin

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Museums/Musées

Avataq Cultural Institute http://www.avataq.qc.ca/
Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec http://www.banq.qc.ca/accueil/
Biosphere Environment Museum http://www.biosphere.ec.gc.ca/
Canadian Centre for Architecture http://www.cca.qc.ca/en
Centre d'exposition La Prison-des-Patriotes http://www.mndp.qc.ca
Centre d'histoire de Montréal http://www.ville.montreal.qc.ca/chm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts http://www.mmfa.qc.ca/en/index.html
Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal http://www.macm.org/fr/index.html

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