Rosemont is trying to save its 561 tiny shoebox homes from extinction

“There was an old woman who lived in a shoe … box house.”
– with apologies to Mother Goose.
You’ve seen them around, perhaps even done a double take as you passed one by. They seem like mirages, picturesque relics from another era — which is precisely what they are.
Single-story “shoebox” homes, built at the turn of the 20th century, dot the Montreal cityscape, squeezed between duplexes and triplexes.
But there are fewer than there used to be, and