List of neighbourhoods in Montreal

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This is the list of the neighbourhoods in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are sorted by the borough they are located in.

Ahuntsic-Cartierville

• Ahuntsic
• Nouveau-Bordeaux
• Cartierville
• Saint-Sulpice
• Sault-au-Récollet (Île de la Visitation)

Anjou

• Bas-Anjou: The Southeastern older portion, where the main services are located (town Hall, main library, fire station, high school)
• Haut-Anjou: The L-shaped part consisting of every street North of Autoroute 40 and every street West of Autoroute 25

Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce

• Côte-des-Neiges
• Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
  • Benny Farm
• Snowdon
• Le Triangle
• Monkland Village
• Glenmount

Lachine

• Ville Saint-Pierre

LaSalle

No particular neighbourhoods.

Cecil-P.-Newman

Sault-Saint-Louis

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

The Plateau

Montreal's trendy and colourful Plateau Mont Royal neighbourhood is located on the twin North-South axes of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Saint Denis Street, and East-West axes of Mount Royal Avenue and Sherbrooke Street. The granite-paved, pedestrian-only Prince Arthur Street is also located in this neighbourhood. In the summer, nightlife often seems as active as in the day in this area.

The Plateau boasts the highest population density of all Montreal and the greatest number of creative people in Canada, according to Statistics Canada. The same source also states that it is the urban place where the most people travel mainly by foot, bicycle or public transport. In 1997, Utne Reader magazine included the Plateau Mont-Royal in its list of "15 Hippest places to live."^[1] The exterior staircase is a distinctive feature of the city's architecture.

Mile End

The tiny "Mile End" district, officially part of the Plateau borough but generally considered distinct, is home to many Montreal artists and filmmakers. The city's two famous bagel emporia, the Fairmount and St-Viateur bakeries, are located on the streets of the same names. Fairmount Street is also home to Wilensky's (right), immortalized in the Mordecai Richler novel and film of the same name The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz and Saint-Viateur is the site of several cafés of note. The area has become noticeably more cash-rich in recent years, due in part to the presence of the Ubisoft studios in the district, on Saint Laurent Boulevard. As well, as of late it has been the home of many art galleries, designers, and boutiques. Mile End is also where William Shatner spent some time growing up in addition to Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.

Little Portugal

Montreal has a modest

and Rachel street. Portuguese businesses can be found along several blocks of Saint-Laurent between Pine and Marie-Anne. The Portuguese area has largely absorbed what used to be the traditional Jewish neighbourhood.

Other neighbourhoods

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• Milton-Parc (Often referred to by students of McGill University as "The McGhetto" or "The Ghetto", to the offense of other residents.)
• DeLorimier
• Jeanne-Mance
• Le Petit Laurier

Le Sud-Ouest

Griffintown and Goose Village

District directly southwest of downtown Montreal and west of the old harbour. In the 19th century Griffintown and adjacent Goose Village were home to thousands of Irish immigrants (mostly Catholics), many of whom worked for the railway and on massive local projects such as the

building, now Le Nordelec, just across the bridge in Point St. Charles.

Griffintown became a multi-ethnic neighbourhood by the turn of the twentieth century, with French-Canadians, Anglo-Protestants and, later, Italians and others, but keeping a majority of Irish Catholics. The Irish community claims the neighbourhood as a lieu du mémoire because of its significance as one of the earliest sites of Irish immigration in North America.

Many of the immigrants who arrived on "fever ships" or "

Victoria Bridge

.

The collapse of heavy industry following World War II and the later closure of the Lachine Canal created poor economic conditions, and for several decades Griffintown was a low-income neighbourhood featuring small industries and offices and sporadic remaining residential buildings. In recent years it has undergone a massive change, with major condo projects spring up, some obliterating the old street grid. The old urban geography is vanishing in Griffintown by the day.

Pointe-Saint-Charles

An area located in the South-West borough, south of downtown between the

hails from the district.

• Montreal Technoparc

Other neighbourhoods

• Saint-Henri
• Little Burgundy
• Côte-Saint-Paul
• Ville-Émard

L'Île-Bizard–Sainte-Geneviève

• Jacques-Bizard
• Sainte-Geneviève

Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

• Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
• Mercier, Montreal
  • Mercier-Ouest (Longue-Pointe
    )
  • Tétreaultville
    )
• Viauville

Montréal-Nord

• No particular neighbourhoods.

Marie-Clarac

Ovide-Clermont

Outremont

• No particular neighbourhoods.

Claude-Ryan

Jeanne-Sauvé

Joseph-Beaubien

Robert-Bourassa

Pierrefonds-Roxboro

• Pierrefonds
• Roxboro

Rivière-des-Prairies–Pointe-aux-Trembles

• Pointe-aux-Trembles
• Rivière-des-Prairies

Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie

Little Italy

Montreal has the second largest

community. Although many Italians in Montreal have since moved to other parts of town, Montreal's Little Italy has not lost its heritage, as it is home to a large collection of Italian restaurants, bars, and shops.

Other neighbourhoods

• La Petite-Patrie
• Rosemont
• Angus Shops

Saint-Laurent

• Bois-Franc

Saint-Léonard

Città Italiana

There is also a very prominent

playing areas, and a cafe.

Verdun

• Nuns' Island

Ville-Marie

Downtown Montreal

Downtown Montreal lies at the foot of Mount Royal, most of which is a major urban

.

Old Montreal

Notre Dame Basilica viewed from Place d'Armes

.

.

Architecture and cobbled streets in Old Montreal have been maintained or restored and are frequented by horse-drawn

bus routes and metro stations, ferries to the South Shore and a network of bicycle paths.

The riverside area adjacent to Old Montreal is known as the Old Port. The Old Port was the former site of the worldwide Port of Montreal, but its shipping operations have been moved further east to its current larger site, leaving the former location as a recreational and historical area maintained by Parks Canada. The new Port of Montreal is now Canada's largest container port and the largest inland port on Earth.^[8]

Chinatown

Montreal has a small but active Chinatown just south of downtown, featuring many Chinese shops and restaurants, as well as a number of Vietnamese establishments. Several of these restaurants offer dim sum from as early as 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. and can be quite crowded, especially on Sundays. The principal axes of Chinatown are Saint Laurent Boulevard and La Gauchetière Street.

Gay Village

Montreal is known as a queer or gay-friendly city. Its pride festival, Divers/Cité, is claimed to be one of the largest in North America; organizers estimate that it drew 1.4 million people in 2002. It benefits from financial support from all three levels of government. Montreal is home to one of the largest gay villages in the world. Gay Village (known in French as le Village gai) is centred on the downtown Beaudry metro station. Montreal is a centre of Queer life and culture in Canada and hosts several circuit parties every year. As the local gay publication is in French, an alternative for English visitors is GAYroute with details about Montreal's gay community in English. The 2006 World Outgames were held in Montreal. The 2001 census recorded that 6.3% of couples in the city were same-sex, the fourth highest percentage for cities in Canada.^[9]

Other neighbourhoods

• Cité du Multimédia
• Quartier international de Montréal
• Quartier Latin, Montreal
• Quartier des spectacles
• Red-Light District, Montreal
• Sainte-Marie, Montreal
• Shaughnessy Village

Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

Park Extension

Parc Extension or 'Parc-Ex' as it is known by the locals, is a key location of the city. It is set in the middle of Montreal and has two metro stations along with three of the main bus routes crossing through it. Its name derives from the fact that it is the neighborhood that begins at the end of a main city street; Parc avenue, therefore extending the reach of the long avenue. Some of the most notable things about Parc Extension is that it is home to a little over 100 different ethnicities yet is mostly known for its Greek community which helped make the district what it is today.

Greektown

Montreal's Greektown has historically been located in the district of Parc Extension. Jean-Talon Boulevard, which runs through Parc Extension, is home to many

.

Other neighbourhoods

• Ville Saint-Michel
  )
• Villeray

Saint-Michel is the home of Le Boulevard shopping centre (recently renovated) and also is home to the headquarters of the world-renowned Cirque Du Soleil as well as the Tohu, la Cité des Arts du Cirque and the Complexe environmental Saint-Michel. The former Miron and Francon quarries are also located here. Autoroute 40 runs through the area and adds a distinctive feel to the neighborhood. Saint-Michel is one of the most ethnically diverse areas in Montreal and in the province of Quebec. Italians, Haitians, Arabs, Asians, Hispanics as well as people of French descent (Québécois) represent the major ethnic groups of this inner city area. Thus, the area has a very distinctive cultural feel. In the early 1990s, this part of Montreal was mostly known for street gang problems. Although, these problems persists somewhat to this day, the situation is better controlled and opinion of the area has improved.

West Island

Westmount

• Victoria Village

See also

• List of municipal electoral districts in Montreal

References

External links

• Neighbourhood walks in Montreal