Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: quartier latin

"Habitations Jeanne-Mance" is a public housing project in the inner city of Montreal. The complex occupies an arrea of 7.7 hectares (19 acres), and counts 788 housing units. There are five high-rise buildings for senior citizens, fourteen 3-storey multiplexes for families, and nine townhouses for families. The complex is home to over 1,700 residents representing seventy countries. The average household income is C$12,000 per year. The first tenants moved into the complex on October 15, 1959. All of the units were completed in May 1961 This mural, the work of American artist Phillip Adams, depicts the neighbourhood prior to its redevelopment.

The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) is a French-language university and is the largest constituent element of the Université du Québec (UQ), a public university system. UQÀM was created on April 9, 1969 by the Government of Quebec, following the merger of the École des beaux-arts de Montréal, the collège Sainte-Marie and three colleges. In mid 1970, construction on UQAM's campus began in the Saint-Jacques neighbourhood. The old St. Jacques Church was condemned and the worshipers were moved to the Chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes. The architect of the university, Dimitri Dimakopoulos, chose to graft the new construction around the wall of the nave of the church overlooking Saint Catherine Street and highlighting the bell tower and its gateway. These remains are classified as historic monuments by the Quebec government. The new campus of UQAM was inaugurated in September 1979.

This gray stone building with a beautifully carved facade was constructed in 1880 by Napoléon Bourassa, a prominent Canadian architect, painter and writer. One of his sons was Henri Bourassa, a journalist and the founder of the newspaper Le Devoir. The bust above the main entrance honours Napoléon Bourassa's father-in-law, Louis-Joseph Papineau, one of the political leaders whose life work began the process by which Canada evolved towards independence. (Note the stylized initials of the two family names – Bourassa and Papineau – set in stone above each of the first floor windows.) The building is the work of Louis-Philippe Hébert By 1906 this building housed the offices of the "Cie chimique Franco-Américain" which manufactured and sold a variety of patent medicines. As advertised in the 1906 edition of the Almanach du peuple, one of their products was a "red pill" aimed at restoring the vigour of "pale and weak" women, making their blood "rich and pure" and relieving depression, kidney pain, palpitations of the heart, and pains in the shoulders and stomach, as well as headaches and all sorts of internal maladies. The red pills were especially recommended for mothers. The building subsequently housed the first Faculty of Dentistry in Montreal when the Université de Montreal was first created as the Montreal campus of Laval University.