🇨🇦 What did it truly feel like to grow up in Montreal before Expo 67? 🕰️❄️🍁

Before the world came to visit, before the metro opened underground, and before the Métro replaced the streetcars, Montreal moved at walking speed — built on tight-knit neighborhoods, outdoor staircases, and a rhythm of two languages mixing in the streets without anyone thinking twice.

This isn’t a history lesson. It’s a return to the triplexes where you could hear three conversations from your balcony, where winter didn’t stop anything, and where the whole block was your playground after three o’clock. It’s the smell of coal furnaces and fresh bread from the boulangerie, the sound of “Michel! Viens manger!” cutting through the noise, and childhood happening in alleys and on front stoops.

From damp mittens and icy metal staircases to summer evenings when the heat settled between buildings and supper smells drifted from open windows, from the dépanneur owner who switched between French and English mid-sentence to walking six blocks to your grandmother’s apartment for butter tarts and Sunday afternoon tea, this video explores the everyday textures and quiet rhythms that defined life in Montreal’s neighborhoods in the years leading up to 1967.

Because sometimes, remembering how we lived is more powerful than remembering what happened.

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