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Quebec 102: Montreal Data For You to Mine

December 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

llouis cyr yarn bomb. yiara magazine. Photo by Zara Domingues

Check out free sets of data from the city of Montreal. You might find something worth blowing a whistle about.

My Montreal: L’Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève & Other Quebec Curios

August 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Église Sainte-Geneviève, located in the borough of L’Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève. Photo credit: Bill Wrigley/Wikimedia Commons.

In a tour of the island’s boroughs, T.A. Wellington checks out the one with the oldest golf club in North America.

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.