Montreal Historical Bits

Researched by James Schidlowsky

Caveat: I am not a historian/archivist by profession nor training. I do this for fun. Sometimes I get interested in a particular building and do a bit of research into it, and sometimes I put the results here.

* Mile End Train Station area, including Frontenac brewery, Van Horne warehouse, L. Villeneuve & Co. hardware/lumber yard, and 77 Bernard East.

* The Obscure History of the North Star Coin Machine Co. & the North Star Machines à piastres bar.

* 1050 St-Laurent blvd (Sun Hing Supermarket).

* 5301 St-Laurent blvd (Bar Salon).

* 5648 de Lorimier (Photo deep dive: A pinball machine being operated in the early 1940s).

* Amusement arcades during the time when pinball was illegal in Montreal, 1955-1977.

* 750 de Bienville (in French). J'avais trouvé une photo d'un dépanneur dans les vidanges. Quand est-ce que c'était prise ?

* 3995-4001 rue Berri (in English ou en français). The story of the building which is now dedicated to art, and houses / L'histoire d'un immeuble qui est maintenant dédié à l'art et héberge OBORO, Ada-X (Studio XX), G.I.V. (Groupe Intervention Vidéo)....

* H-d-V. (T.B.A.)

• List of useful maps for research on the city of Montréal.
• Mémoire du Mile End Memories.
• Insurance plan of the city of Montreal, various volumes, various years, via Carte-index des plans d'assurance-incendie de Montréal: http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/p/carte_index_MTL.html. Article sur des Trucs et astuces pour les plans d'assurance-incendie.
• Aerial photos of Montreal: http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-archives.
• Google Maps overlay for 1947 aerial photos (Montreal core area only) : http://www.app.catbus.ca/1947satelliteview/app.html#15;45.50381;-73.56707.
• Photothèque de la Ville de Montréal (photos aériennes 1930-2003).
• Images Montreal.
• Lovell's Annuals, covering 1842-2010, digitized and made available online by the BANQ (Bibliothèque et Archives National du Québec): http://bibnum2.banq.qc.ca/bna/lovell/index.html.
• Consultation du rôle d'évaluation foncière (Montréal): https://servicesenligne2.ville.montreal.qc.ca/sel/evalweb/index.
• Répertoire historique des toponymes (toponymie des rues).
• Carte toponymique de Montréal.
• Montreal telephone exchange geography.