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My Montreal: Anjou & Other Quebec Curios

July 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

The metropolitan highway is a major highway through the borough of Anjou in Montreal. Photo credit: Chicoutimi/Wikimedia Commons.

Historically once the land of farmers and other agricultural workers. Anjou evolved in the 1950s to a more urban culture, and in 1956, Anjou separated from a fellow parish to [read on]

My Montreal: Ahuntsic-Cartierville & Other Quebec Curios

July 16, 2015 // 0 Comments

Belmont Park in 1948. Belmont Park, an amusement park now no longer in operation, was in the area which is now the Montreal borough of Ahuntsic-Cartierville. Source: Fonds Conrad Poirier/BAnQ. Accession number: P48,S1,P16831

Quebec Curios explores the first in a series of Montreal’s boroughs and municipalities with Ahuntsic-Cartierville, home to one of the oldest settlements on the island.