The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Else's / the Plateau tavern tradition
Quebec's old taverns were a specific institution — long, men-only working-class rooms, abolished as women-excluding only in the 1980s. That world is mostly gone, but the neighbourhood corner bar survives it. A corner spot like this, off the strip, carries on the everyday social tradition. Have a quiet pint and read the ordinary francophone city, not the monuments.
A corner neighbourhood bar carrying on the Plateau's working-class tavern tradition — the everyday social history of francophone Montreal.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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