The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Taverne Magnan (former site) / Brutopia and the old taverns of the canal
The Lachine Canal made Montreal an industrial city, and its taverns served the Irish labourers of Griffintown and the factory workers of Pointe-Saint-Charles. The legendary Taverne Magnan, a fixture of this world, has closed, which is itself the story — the deindustrialization of the canal corridor. Walk the area reading where the working-class drinking culture stood, and where a few survivors carry it on.
The Pointe-Saint-Charles and Griffintown tavern culture that served the canal's Irish and industrial workers — read the working-class drinking history along the waterway.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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