History bits for Sunday

Radio-Canada’s history bit Sunday is the story of Broue, which started in a small theatre on the Main in 1979 – there’s a plaque on the building, somewhere between Laurier and Fairmount – and became a Quebec classic, revived in 2019 with a new cast. French Wikipedia observes that the setting is a tavern on the eve of the first day women were admitted, “cette tradition qui se perd avec la montée du féminisme.”

Update: I thought maybe someone would’ve photographed the plaque, and here it is.

The BAnQ put up a nice selection of vintage postcards of Montreal parks. But all the other usual sources of historical stuff this weekend are swamped by memoirs of Guy Lafleur.

Oh, and here’s a recent piece in Est Media about the cinemas of Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie of which only the Cinéma Beaubien still exists and shows movies.