Mile End
Former garment district turned artist enclave, now home to lofts, cafes and video game studios.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mile End in Montreal traces the neighborhood from a 1912 walkout by Jewish immigrant garment workers at Harris Vineberg's Progress Brand Factory through decades as the industrial heart of the city's clothing trade. It follows what happened as free trade and overseas manufacturing pulled the work away in the 1980s and 90s, leaving landlords with empty factory floors and few buyers. Broke musicians and painters, including the members of a young band called Arcade Fire, were among the first to take the cheap loft space that opened up.
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