History pieces for a mild Sunday

This weekend the Centre d’histoire looks at a cyclist on Ste-Catherine in 1980 and ponders how the city’s attitude to cycling has evolved since that time.

Radio-Canada profiles the city’s first black neighbourhood, Little Burgundy, where workers on the railway put down roots. The area was openly disdained by the city, which ordained mass demolitions under Jean Drapeau and cut through it to build the Ville-Marie. This is quite a long piece and worth reading for a piece of the city’s history that isn’t widely known.

This week CTV spoke to Marc Lalonde about the FLQ crisis. Lalonde, now 90, was in Pierre Trudeau’s government at the time and later held cabinet posts including Finance, Justice and Attorney General.