The 365 entries reflect such momentous events as the 1970 FLQ crisis and fads like Cabbage Patch Kids and the lambada craze. The striking photographs are drawn from the archives of the
Montreal Gazette
, one of North America’s longest-publishing daily newspapers. They include iconic images from the
Gazette
as well as some photographs from the
Montreal Herald
, the
Montreal Star,
and the
Standard
. While the photographs are the focus of this volume, the texts that accompany them tell the story of one of North America’s most fascinating and news-intensive cities.
History Through Our Eyes
was launched as a daily feature in the
at the beginning of 2019. It quickly became a reader favorite, and remains one of the popular initiatives introduced at that newspaper in the last 40 years.