History pieces for the weekend

The Centre d’histoire piece this weekend looks at an attempted escape by a suspect from an arrest in 1961. The building in Old Montreal hasn’t changed a bit in the before-and-after shots.

This week, Radio-Canada looked back 20 years to the closure of Eaton’s, once a Canadian commercial empire.

The Gazette’s history feature looks at a well-known photo of Jean Drapeau with Lucien Saulnier and Cardinal Léger in the cab of one of the first metro cars, on show in 1965. There’s also a piece on a strike that closed the metro in 1974.

I don’t remember any mention of this incident: a small cruise ship tipped over in the Old Port and stayed there for five years till it was righted and towed away for scrap in 1982.