# About



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About · Explore Montréal’s historical photographs, places, dates and sources.



## See Montréal before us.

MTL Archives makes photographs from the Archives de la Ville de Montréal easier to explore, by place and era. An independent project by Wielfried Zouantcha to rediscover places, read documents and keep their sources close at hand.



## Photographic sources

- [Ville de Montréal — aeriennes-1925-1939](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-de-l-ile-de-montreal-1925-1935) · Archives de la Ville de Montréal

- [Ville de Montréal — aeriennes-1947-1949](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-archives) · Archives de la Ville de Montréal

- [Ville de Montréal — aeriennes-1958-1975](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-de-montreal-1958-1975) · Archives de la Ville de Montréal

- [Ville de Montréal — aeriennes-obliques-1960-1969](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/vues-aeriennes-obliques-de-l-ile-de-montreal-1960-1992) · Archives de la Ville de Montréal

- [Ville de Montréal — phototheque](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/phototheque-archives) · Archives de la Ville de Montréal



## How locations are established

Titles, dates and reference codes come from archive records. Locations from the 1947–1949 aerial survey are matched to the index map. Sociological neighbourhoods guide navigation; boroughs and municipalities give context. Missing information is omitted.

- [Sociological neighbourhoods · 2014](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/quartiers-sociologiques) · CC BY 4.0 · Ville de Montréal

- [Road network](https://donnees.montreal.ca/dataset/geobase) · CC BY 4.0 · Ville de Montréal



## Contact

Wielfried Zouantcha · [Questions, corrections and proposals](mailto:zouantchaw74@gmail.com)



## Photo credit

Photographs: Archives de la Ville de Montréal.



## Citation guidance

When citing a photograph, include its title, known place and date, archive reference (cote), credit “Archives de la Ville de Montréal”, canonical photo-page URL and source dataset. Distinguish the photograph’s date from a story’s publication date. Do not invent missing places, dates or references; unknown fields are omitted. Identify changes. Do not describe MTL Archives as a municipal service.



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