We joined Fitz Montreal on a 15-kilometre pedal through Montreal’s green alleyways and busy boulevards and along the Lachine Canal. The three-hour tour delivered a broad overview of Montreal’s history ...

The Lachine Canal, which marks its 200th anniversary this year, has been transformed from an industrial thoroughfare to a neglected backwater to a prime example of urban gentrification.

Incoming first lady Melania Trump has joined her husband in the crypto game, launching her own “meme coin” over the weekend. But just hours after the new digital currency went live Sunday, her husband ...

The idea of a canal to bypass the Lachine Rapids upstream from Montreal is almost as old as the city itself. But early attempts to build one, beginning in the late 17th century, ended in failure ...

It used to be that on New Year’s Eve, people living along Montreal’s Lachine Canal would throw open their doors to hear the nearby factories blow their horns when the clocks struck midnight.

Two hundred years on, the Lachine Canal has cemented its legacy as an engine of Montreal's industrial development and a key part of the city's heritage. What its future should look like is less clear.

Water flows from a lock on the Lachine Canal next to the old Redpath Sugar Mill in Montreal, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Work on the canal began in 1821 and officially opened in 1825. THE CANADIAN ...

Water flows from a lock on the Lachine Canal next to the old Redpath Sugar Mill in Montreal, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Work on the canal began in 1821 and officially opened in 1825. THE CANADIAN ...