Park Avenue (Montreal)

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Park Avenue
Bleury Street

Park Avenue (officially in French: Avenue du Parc) is one of central Montreal's major north-south streets. It derives its name from Mount Royal Park, by which it runs. Between Mount Royal Avenue and Pine Avenue, the street separates the eastern side of the mountain park and the smaller Jeanne Mance Park (formerly known as Fletcher's Field and often referenced as such in Montreal literature).[1][2][3][4]

South of

Chabanel Street.[5]

Once one of

Greek
community.

Park Avenue also lends its name to the Park Extension residential neighbourhood, located at its northern end.

History

Former Rialto Theatre, July 2011.

In 1883, a request by English-speaking citizens was filed with the City of Montreal to name the street Park Avenue (in reference to Mount Royal Park, inaugurated in 1876). It was always officially referred to by its English name, Park Avenue, until September 29, 1961, when its French name, Avenue du Parc, was officially recognized.

In 1937, the government planned to change the name of the street to Marconi Street, but it decided to keep its current name following protests by citizens.

A similar event occurred on October 18, 2006 when Mayor

RTM commuter rail station were to remain "Parc" due to a moratorium on renaming metro stations.[8]) After Bourassa's family publicly expressed reservations about the controversy, Tremblay announced on February 6, 2007 that he would not pursue the issue further and that the council would be presented with a motion to withdraw the resolution made November 28. (A section of University Street
was eventually renamed in honour of Bourassa, instead.)

In 2005, a

Autoroute 415
.

Greektown

Greektown is a proposed name[

Greek influence has been very strong in this area along with the adjoining Park Extension neighbourhood. There are over 61,000 Montrealers of Greek descent.[10]

Montreal's Greektown was where fans celebrated the victory of

Public transit

Bus routes along Park Avenue include the

Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie). Place-des-Arts metro station is located on the De Bleury section of the street while Parc métro and train station
are located near the intersection at Jean-Talon on Hutchison street.

Due to the high volume of bus passengers in the corridor, the city of Montreal has proposed building a

(ARTM) believes the tram has a potential ridership of 11,600 daily passengers.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Plateau Mont Royal history".
  2. ^ "City of Montreal archives".
  3. ^ "Taylor Noakes website".
  4. .
  5. ^ Google Map
  6. ^ "'Turn the page' on Park Avenue debate: mayor". CBC News. November 29, 2006.
  7. ^ "Bourassa statue unveiled as street naming stirs controversy". CBC News. October 19, 2006.
  8. ^ "Holà aux changements de nom des stations de métro" (in French). Retrieved 2006-11-28.
  9. ^ Montreal Gazette:City to name Park a Greek village Archived 2012-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ "Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census". Archived from the original on 2008-05-23. Retrieved 2012-08-06.
  11. ^ URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place » Rebranding Park Avenue

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