Pilgrimage to Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site Michele Peterson April 19, 2023 1908 As whitecaps splash across the bow of our boat, I clutch the railing and peer through the spray hoping to glimpse my first sighting of Grosse Île through the mist. While many passengers on this day cruise are h...
Multilingual Reality Guy Rex Rodgers January 14, 2023 1420 What We Choose To Remember I remember vividly the first time I became an honorary francophone. It was at a New Year’s Eve party where I made a friend who shared my taste in music. Late in the evening she turne...
Disraeli Revisited – until February 19, 2023 LiveEvents December 23, 2022 1236 Disraeli Revisited – Chronicle of an Event in Quebec Photography A Look Back on the 50th Anniversary of a Pivotal Chapter in Quebec Photographic History Until February 19, 2023, the McCord Stewart Museum prese...
A red and orange island in a blue, blue sea Guy Rex Rodgers November 25, 2022 1756 What We Choose To Remember When I accepted Peter Kerr’s offer to write this column I saw it as an opportunity to engage in a conversation with Montrealers about why we choose to live here. Most of the Anglos a...
Montreal was never the mythical city of two solitudes Guy Rex Rodgers October 12, 2022 1854 What We Choose To Remember If you stand on Sainte-Catherine Street and ask Montrealers what the five floral emblems on their city’s flag represent, most will recognize only the fleur de lys and its roots in Fr...
Egypt: 4000 Years of Textile Art – until October 16, 2022 LiveEvents August 31, 2022 1484 Akhmim, Egypt: 4000 Years of Textile Art Through October 16, MUMAQ takes you on a voyage to Egypt. The city of Akhmîm, famed for millennia for its artistic embroidery, is now home to a community organization of...
VIKINGS – Dragons of the Northern Seas – until October 10, 2022 LiveEvents August 24, 2022 1576 Pointe-à-Callière presents VIKINGS – DRAGONS OF THE NORTHERN SEAS Exclusively, and for the first time in Quebec, the exhibition showcases the National Museum of Denmark’s magnificent Viking collection—one of th...
Pointe-à-Callière’s 18th Century Public Market – August 27-28, 2022 LiveEvents August 22, 2022 864 Pointe-à-Callière’s 18th Century Public Market makes a major comeback! Outside the Museum in the pedestrian zone (350 Place Royale, Old Montreal) - FREE - With navigation as its theme, this edition of the Publi...
See downtown Montreal in a new light with a free guided tour LiveEvents June 27, 2022 1160 Discover downtown Montreal and the underground city Guidatour invites people of Montreal and tourists alike to experience or re-experience the city’s downtown in a fun and unexpected way with the Downtown Montr...
Run Nawrocki Run! Escape from Banff Prison LiveEvents June 14, 2022 1646 Les Pages Noires Productions and Babushka Theatre present Run Nawrocki Run! Escape from Banff Prison - June 20 to July 4, 2022 A Ukrainian Canadian WW1 story of courage—dream, resist, escape Written & perf...
