Attractions and Tours

--October 30, 2019.

Montreal’s traditional Black community would have called the area “St. Antoine” but it is now known as “Little Burgundy.”

The community’s history can be explored through the plaques, panels and murals commemorating Black achievement and the parks dedicated to celebrated figures.

November 27, 2012.

Since early May of 2012, I participated in six Montreal walking tours: two Jane's Walks, three Héritage Montreal tours, one religious heritage tour by the Museum of Fine Arts and a Côte St. Antoine Road old farmhouse tour by the Westmount Historical Society.

Intro
Peace between the Iroquois and New France cleared the way for the colony’s westward growth.

In the early 1700s, French colonists left fortified settlements near Montreal to clear new farms on the east tip of the land wedge between the Ottawa and St. Lawrence rivers.

Griffintown and Point St. Charles were Canada’s first industrial slums, home to Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famines and generations of their descendants.