A storytelling home by Léa Plourde-Archer

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She/her. Montrealer. Full-time freelance content creator, blogger and translator (French to English/ English to French). Currently working on several manuscripts about the life of composer Violet Archer (my great aunt).

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  • Untapped Montreal: what I’ve been writing about in the last few months

    Here’s a new update on the cool things I’ve been writing about for Untapped Cities, as city correspondent for Montreal: Something most Montrealers don’t know: there’s a church in Montreal’s Little Italy that still features a fresco representing Benito Mussolini: http://untappedcities.com/2013/10/21/why-is-benito-mussolini-featured-church-fresco-montreal/ A fun list compiling 8 of the quirkiest bar and restaurant restrooms in Montreal…

  • Photo tour: a walk through Notre-Dame des neiges cemetery in Montreal

    Notre-Dame-des-neiges is the largest cemetery in all of Canada. Located in the middle of the city, it is easily accessible and is a great place for a long, contemplative walk, especially during the cold days of this fall season.

  • My travel bucketlist through music: Argentina

    This is the third part of a series of 10 articles where I feature artists from one of the countries that is on my current list of ten countries that I want to visit before I die. We started out in Sweden, made our way to Brazil and are now stopping in Argentina. I’m learning…

  • Photo post: A view of Athens

    Athens, circa 2009. We were only supposed to stay in Athens for a few hours but we hit a transit strike in Italy and missed our flight to Santorini so we decided to stay two days in the capital of Greece before we headed our next destination (Istanbul). As much of inconvenience as this transit…

  • Photo: Nelson’s Column in Old Montreal

    This is the Colonne Nelson in Old Montreal, near Place Jacques-Cartier. It is dedicated to Admiral Horatio Nelson who fought and died during the War of the Third coalition (1803-1806).