Entries by Jaan Pill

With help from Peter Halliday, we’ve located an archival photo of Raimbault Creek near the Back River

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We owe many thanks to Peter for locating one of the images that we’ve been looking for, as described in a previous post. Peter Halliday writes: Bingo! Go here and download photo 10-159. I think it’s exactly what you’re looking for. http://donnees.ville.montreal.qc.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-de-la-ville-de-montreal-1958/resource/5bc20660-c4c0-4594-ac30-398ec6d86aa0 [End of message from Peter Halliday] You can access the image at the […]

Peter Halliday has shared some great links related to Raimbault Creek and other Montreal lost creeks

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Peter Halliday, who has shared with us an aerial photo featuring Raimbault Creek in Cartierville, which I’ve posted to this site in the past, has shared the following links. Peter Halliday writes: This is the archives I’ve been poking around in: http://archivesdemontreal.com/greffe/vues-aeriennes-archives/jpeg/VM97-3_7P9-59.jpg The indication on the image is 24-29 and you can access the photo […]

Without positing a simple-minded connection, Not Hollywood (2013) argues that taste is linked to a particular class background

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I have previously posted several items about Not Hollywood (2013). This post discusses these and other posts. Toronto Public Library resources I came across Sherry B. Ortner’s work when I was reading The Hidden Life of Girls (2006), a linguistic anthropology study of cliques of popular girls in American schools. The author of the latter […]

Online chapter by Tanni Kents in Estonian Life Stories (2009) describes her family’s postwar arrival in Cartierville

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Click here to access BBC Estonia country profile > In the course of an online search for “Cartierville School Preserved Stories,” I came across the English translation of a chapter in Estonian Life Stories by my late mother Tanni Kents. I’ve read the Estonian version, but had not seen the English version for some years. […]