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• Little-noticed engraving recalls past flood
  Etched on the entrance to the aged Allan Steamship Line building in Old Montreal are a few words that have survived the elements for nearly a ...
• We're playing with fire with our heritage
  The first of the three conflagrations occurred on Jan. 16, 1986 when Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church was heavily damaged by a blaze of equally ...
• Montreal's notorious car culture had an early start
  The tragic story took place the evening of August 11, 1906. The automobile in question was driven by Hernold Thomas Atkinson, a chauffeur with ...
• Just money down the drain
  The additional information that, at the time, men working on the ships moored in the port regularly bathed in those same foul waters is what we ...
• The pride of Dominion Square
  Set precisely in the centre of the celebrated downtown park (now under extensive renovation), the unique monument was unveiled at exactly 11 a.m. ...
• Confessions of a history detective
  All three images depict the near-total ruins of several buildings encased heavily in ice. Several people can be seen standing about, seemingly ...
• Water main break led to city's most serious crisis
  The now broken pipe (which was nine feet in diameter) was the sole feed of water into a city of more than 350,000 people. The ruptured culvert ...
• Cricket: Alive and well in the city
  With the rapid commercial development of Ste. Catherine Street in the early 20th century, the sports field quietly disappeared from the local ...
• Stirring ghosts of the Ottawa Hotel
  Montreal was still the colonial capital of Canada when the Ottawa was constructed in 1845, eventually eclipsing an older guest house of the same ...
• The unforgettable Louis Rubenstein
  Rubenstein was born in Montreal on Sept. 23, 1861, the son of Max and Leah Rubenstein. He had many siblings, both male and female. His parents ...
• Remembering St. Patrick’s Day 1909
  Briefly, around 8:30 the morning of March 17, 1909, an overnight train from Boston with 200 passengers aboard was commencing its final approach ...
• Victorian England's Archway of Tears
  The cycle that is life was now complete; in this case, that of my Birmingham-born great-grandfather. Yet the unrelenting and crushing poverty ...
• Kids will be kids
  AND THIS OF WESTMOUNT!To the Editor of the Montreal Star: Sir, There is an old adage that “A man’s manners make his fortune.” On arrival at the ...
• On the trail of the ancestors
  It was, at the time, a gloomy urban centre, replete with its omnipresent inner-city ring roads — the depressing signature of so much of Britain’s ...