Guy Street
Native name | rue Guy (French) |
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Owner | City of Montreal |
Length | 1.5 km (0.93 mi) |
Location | Between Sherbrooke Street and William Street |
Coordinates | 45°29′44″N 73°34′43″W / 45.495417°N 73.578669°W |
Major junctions | R-136 Ville-Marie Expressway R-138 Sherbrooke Street |
Construction | |
Inauguration | August 30, 1817 |
Guy Street (officially in
Guy-Concordia Metro station. Guy Street runs through the Little Burgundy and Shaughnessy Village neighbourhoods, and the recently named Quartier Concordia district, before changing to Côte-des-Neiges Road, above Sherbrooke Street
.
History
The street was named on August 30, 1817 for Étienne Guy (1774-1820), a notary and member for the riding of Montreal in the Lower Canada Assembly. He gave the city the land for the street.[1][2] Guy Street constituted the link between the Faubourg Saint-Joseph and Saint-Antoine.
Since 1869, the
Dorchester Boulevard. The Grey Nuns' Motherhouse was purchased by Concordia University in 2007.[3]
From 1898 to 1963, the street was home to Her Majesty's Theatre, a key performing arts venue.[4]
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Guy Street, Montreal.
- 165 Côte-des-Neiges
- 166 Queen Mary
- Structure gauge
References
- ^ "History of street names". L'Association du Village Shaughnessy Village Association. Retrieved March 30, 2008.
- ^ "Toponymie Montreal". Toponymie Montreal. Retrieved April 8, 2008.
- ^ "Grey Nuns' Motherhouse". Concordia University. Archived from the original on March 14, 2010.
- ^ "Her Majesty's Theatre". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved July 16, 2022.