OLD MONTREAL History through Heritage is now available in bookstores

This superb new book offers over 300 pages of fascinating reading enhanced by 270 illustrations and photographs of Old Montréal. Each chapter of this urban heritage adventure covers a distinct historical period.Learn just how much the district’s rich architecture and its archaeological remains, streets, squares, courtyards, piers, public artworks, as well as its heirlooms and antique documents, can tell us about its history and that of the people who have lived there over the years. The original French edition launched last June was a complete success, the reprint is already in stores.

For more information: http://www.vieux.montreal.qc.ca/eng/comm_03/comm_03a.htm

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