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Le Monastère’s Nouveau Cirque Sets Its Stage in a Neo-Gothic Montreal Church

Cultural presence.

When the lights dim inside the 19th-century Anglican church in downtown Montreal, a master of ceremonies takes centre stage below its neo-Gothic catenary arches. Spectators share laughs and bottles of wine, applaud—and then the lights go out.

NUVO Magazine: SCALAWAGS: William Hunt, The Great Farnini

The Canadian Boy Who Became the Great Farini

A life on the wire.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: In 1859, at the foot of Walton Street in Port Hope, Ontario, a local boy named William Hunt walked a tightrope over the Ganaraska River. Just a few months later, he was calling himself Farini, after an obscure Italian revolutionary, and he soon became the second man in history to cross Niagara Falls on a rope.

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Family Circus

Heather O’Neill remembers the best gift she ever gave.

FROM THE ARCHIVE: On the subway ride home from the circus, my daughter and I were so happy. As we walked along the busy city streets to our apartment, everything seemed magical and full of grace.

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