Those Were the Days! Inaugurated August 24th, 2005 Dimensions: 57 ft wide x 34 ft high 364, rue Alexandre "Little-Canada" was the popular name of this French-Canadian workers district.  With this piece, M.U.R.I.R.S. and its artists of the extreme painting wanted to pay homage to the South-West district of Sherbrooke. Shown here as a snapshot of its everyday life on the 27th of September 1957, the district was directly tied to the textile, mechanical and metallurgical industries. There were a majority of large families, a fact of the baby boom of the post World War II years. This increase of population generated the opening of backstreets and backyards, the construction of square housing complexes with large galleries, creating an atmosphere of good neighbourhood. Sherbrooke was growing up actively, with a brand new University, and the arrival of new technologies, such as the first TV sets, allowing the folks, from their living rooms, to witness what was happening around the world, in those early years of the Global Village. Some personalities and well known store owners of the district are shown here, in this scene bathed in the tunes of Elvis Presley, the Chevrolet Bel-Air and costumes of the Canadiens de Montréal hockey team.