Gens du pays reaches 50
Plans for the St-Jean festival this year include marking the 50th anniversary of the launch of Gens du pays on Mount Royal in 1975. There will be various festivities around town.
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DeWolf 18:53 on 2025-06-21 Permalink
Is there any street party that comes close to what St-Viateur was like until it was cancelled after 2003 or so?
De Castelnau is most similar but it’s not quite the same.
Ian 09:59 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
That period of the Fête on Saint-Viateur was a revival of the pre-hipster glory days, funded by Ubisoft.
https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2810844
Before that it was mostly organized by community acitivists like Comité des Citoyens du Mile-End and funded in part by orgs like the Y on Parc. It fizzled out not long after the last referendum.
https://citoyensmileend.com/2022/11/07/coup-doeil-sur-40-ans-daction-citoyenne-dans-le-mile-end/
DeWolf 14:33 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
The Ubisoft street fair wasn’t on St-Jean though.
2003 was definitely not Ubisoft sponsored, it was pretty informal. I remember it stopped being held because of noise complaints – the crowd was pretty big and lingered late.
Ian 19:55 on 2025-06-23 Permalink
Ah yes, I was conflating them. People hate fun even back then haha