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Montreal’s Fur Ateliers

BY ALAN HERSCOVICI When I was a child, in the 1950s, my father would sometimes bring me down to my grandfather’s fur atelier, on St. Helen Street, in Old Montreal. In the lobby of the grey-stone building, my father greeted Frank, the elevator man, who crashed shut the heavy metal-grate doors, and swung the wood-handled lever to guide our clunking steel cage up to the … Continue reading Montreal’s Fur Ateliers

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How Do You Become a Squire?

CSM STAFF WRITER During medieval times, a squire was a youthful aspirant seeking knighthood. The journey to become a squire was a prolonged and demanding process encompassing multiple phases of training and service. Initiating the path to squiredom involved either being born into a noble family or being selected as a ward by a lord or knight. The initial stage of this progression was the … Continue reading How Do You Become a Squire?

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