With the holiday season just around the corner, theHéritage Montréal team has a few gift ideas for lovers of the city, its architecture, landscapes and heritage. Whatever your budget, you're sure to find something to please your loved ones with these suggestions for a change from gift cards!
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Staircase of Montreal" poster by Raymond Biesinger
Once again this year, Next Generation Committee d'Héritage Montréal is holding its "Affiche ton patrimoine" campaign, now in its 3rd year. We invite you to show your love for the city's heritage, highlighted through the eyes of a Montreal artist.
After the success of the posters by Julien Castanié, illustrating the Café Olimpico in 2020, and Amélie Tourangeau, representing the Botanical Garden in 2021, it is Raymond Biesinger, renowned illustrator, who will produce the poster this year. You will undoubtedly recognize one of the most emblematic architectural objects of the metropolis, which punctuates the facades of its many neighborhoods: the exterior staircase and its balcony.
Special this year: we offer you the possibility to buy the 2022 poster alone or in combination with last year's poster if you missed your chance!
Renovation lessons fromHéritage Montréal
Give the gift of peace of mind! Someone you know has just bought a property and wants to get to know their building better, or is planning renovations or maintenance work? Héritage Montréal 's renovation lessons, presented by professionals and experts, will answer all their questions!
Offer membership to Héritage montréal
For many years now, the Fondation Héritage Montréal has been proud to be able to count on the support of several hundred members, who contribute to developing a civic presence, an added legitimacy and a support network that enables us to gather the resources we need to accomplish our mission. Join this dynamic community of metropolis lovers and contribute to the enhancement and preservation of our heritage.
Your membership will allow you to benefit from privileged access to our rich programming, newsletters allowing you to follow our actions and exclusive activities for members, in addition to enjoying advantages with our partners.
thematic and museum stores
société de transport de montréal
The STM offers a host of products representing the metro and its various stations, buses and the company's visual identity. For the holiday season, the STM is also offering Christmas-themed products with its "Métro-Ho-Ho" collection.
home and decoration accessories from toma objects
Discover the home and decoration accessories in the different collections of Anne Thomas, including the collection Montreal. Add a little Montreal touch to your everyday life.
contemporary illustration and graphic art CHEZ PAPEROLE
Paperole is a Montreal-based publishing house specializing in contemporary stationery: greeting cards, postcards, notebooks, posters.
montreal museum boutiques
Tourisme Montréal, in this blog post, lists several museum stores in the city that have a transactional website. From the Museum of Fine Arts to the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the McCord-Stewart Museum, you will certainly find something to please art lovers everywhere.
store of the national library and archives of quebec
The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) boutique offers a wide range of items and memorabilia that reflect the heritage collections of this important institution. The boutique favours and highlights Quebec objects in order to promote the mission and values of BAnQ in Quebec and elsewhere in the world.
Book suggestions
Notebook of a walker in Montreal, by Dinu Bumbaru
Policy Director at Héritage Montréal, Dinu Bumbaru is also a walker, an advocate of walkability, and an outstanding draughtsman. This book brings together sketches and reflections on the city, the perfect gift for those who like to lose themselves in the twists and turns of alleys and urban history.
Click here to read our blog post on the book.
The habit of ruins, by Marie-Hélène Voyer
With this hard-hitting book, published in November 2021, Marie-Hélène Voyer, a literature professor at the Cégep de Rimouski, questions our relationship to built and landscape heritage, our way of inhabiting and celebrating the territory and "our troubled relationship [...] to time and space." She addresses head-on "our serial demolitions [...] our way of inhabiting this territory by lulling us too often with borrowed images. She thus poses a fundamental question: can we build this country without destroying it and without falling into insignificance? Her essay offers a plea for these modest places that form the ordinary of our lives and that draw the refuges of our hopes and our solidarities."
suburbs, you say? by gerard beaudet
"In this book, the author focuses on the emergence and the main transformations that have marked the history of the Montreal suburbs during the last five decades of the 20th century and the first two decades of the present millennium, particularly from a physical-spatial point of view. While the suburban ideal is the backdrop to this history, this book invites us to discover a built environment of much greater diversity and complexity, often unsuspected.
- Description taken from the website of the publisher, Les Presses de l'Université Laval
kitsch qc, by caroline dubuc and roxanne arsenault
"Kitsch QC invites you to a unique incursion into the world of themed restaurants and bars in la Belle Province. These immersive places with exotic and exotic settings have made the good days - and the good nights! - of a Quebec eager to open up to the world. Founded mainly between 1950 and 1980 by entrepreneurs of diverse origins, these businesses allowed customers to escape from their daily lives for a meal or an evening. A true tribute to an architectural and cultural heritage in danger of disappearing, this abundantly illustrated book allows you to rediscover these singular places whose last representatives deserve to be preserved. By offering a guided tour of more than 250 must-see businesses throughout Quebec, Kitsch QC traces the rich history of a unique North American tradition and highlights the contribution of cultural communities that have contributed to the economic and social development of Quebec's cities. "
-Description from Les Libraires website
Paul in Montreal, by michel rabagliati
Prolific cartoonist Michel Rabagliati has created a trail of 12 giant comic strip panels scattered around the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough as part of Montreal's 375th anniversary celebrations. This album contains all the panels, plus anecdotes on ville de Montréal. A fun and creative way to (re)discover the metropolis!
the seasons of montreal, by raphaëlle barbanègre
This French illustrator, born in Toulouse and resident in Montreal since 2012, invites us to a stroll through the streets and neighborhoods of the metropolis, punctuated by the seasons that transform its face and its atmosphere. A colorful and playful album to explore the many facets of Montreal.
belles demeures historiques de québec et de sa région, by françois rémillard and brian merrett
"This book tells the story of Quebec City's inhabitants through the architecture of some of its most beautiful homes. In addition to portraying emblematic characters, the book describes in detail the complex evolution of the domestic architecture of the city and the surrounding countryside, from the 17th to the 20th century. Thus, the long history of the Old Capital has given it an exceptional residential heritage, straddling America and Europe. Thanks to its many unpublished color photographs, Belles demeures historiques de Québec et de sa région allows us to discover private residences that are usually inaccessible to the public. "
-Description taken from Les Libraires website
belles demeures historiques de l'île de montréal, by françois rémillard and brian merrett
"Produced in the context of the celebrations of the 375th anniversary of the founding of Montreal and the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation, this book presents 40 of the most beautiful historic homes on the island of Montreal, in addition to portraying the emblematic people who lived in them. The architecture of these exceptional homes, the work of the country's greatest builders, is carefully documented in some 250 never-before-seen color photographs of exteriors and interiors taken for the occasion. Thus, the authors were able to enter many places that are usually inaccessible to the public. Through these exceptional homes, the reader will experience the history of Montreal and Canadian adventures, while discovering a way of life that has long since passed, described in a delightful way."
-Description from Les Libraires website
old houses in quebec, volume 2, by Perry mastrovito
"Old Quebec Houses Volume 2, contains more than 365 colorful photos that showcase, once again, many beautiful fieldstone and room-on-room wood plank and roughcast houses, mostly built in the 1700s and 1800s. There is even a house that dates back to the year 1650. The richly detailed and inspiring images, along with descriptions by the author, an award-winning professional photographer, will transport you back in time to experience the soothing and unique atmosphere that old houses exude."
-Description from Les Libraires website
