Centre-Ville, l'âge des lumières (Downtown: The Age of Lights)
- Episode aired Jul 20, 2016
Montrealers crowd St. Catherine Street, doing the Christmas shopping, as snow falls on a December day. Beyond the big stores, it is the city's centre.Montrealers crowd St. Catherine Street, doing the Christmas shopping, as snow falls on a December day. Beyond the big stores, it is the city's centre.Montrealers crowd St. Catherine Street, doing the Christmas shopping, as snow falls on a December day. Beyond the big stores, it is the city's centre.
Electric lighting and American culture give Saint Catherine Street a vibrant nightlife filled with exotic cabarets. Tourists gamble, prostitution is rife, police are on the take. But a whistleblower, Pacifique Plante, exposes the system and triggers a public inquiry. The star prosecutor, Jean Drapeau, becomes mayor of Montreal and reshapes the city into a modern metropolis. —Paul Carvalho
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