Shaughnessy Village

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Shaughnessy Village
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Shaughnessy Village (sometimes referred to as the Concordia

Atwater Street to the west, Sherbrooke Street to the north, and René Lévesque Boulevard and the Ville-Marie Expressway
to the south.

This neighbourhood is the most densely populated area of Quebec, due to the large number of high-rise apartment towers built in the 1960s and 1970s.[9] The area is characterized by high-density residential housing and small businesses, typically owned and operated by immigrants living in the neighbourhood, concentrated at its core, with stately Victorian grey-stone row houses and beaux-arts styled apartment blocks at the edges of the neighbourhood. It is a primarily institutional neighbourhood, with a university, junior college, seminary, hospital and architecture museum among many private schools, colleges and technical schools.

In 1981, local citizens named the neighbourhood after Shaughnessy House, built in 1874 for

Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.[10] The house was declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974, and is now part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.[11]

Other notable landmarks in the area include the Montreal Forum, the former site of the Montreal Children's Hospital on Atwater Avenue, and Le Faubourg Sainte-Catherine shopping mall and Cabot Square.

History

The Canadian Centre for Architecture is located in Shaughnessy Village.

Prior to

Expo '67 and the Olympics, this neighbourhood was considered the city's second Gay Village (mostly by anglophones).[12]

Demographics

It is thus one of the more cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in the city, as well as being generally more

Chinese-Canadians living in the area, so much so that part of the informally named Concordia Ghetto is also sometimes referred to as New Chinatown / Chinatown West. Much like Montreal's main Chinatown
, it is pan-Asiatic, rather than uniquely Chinese.

The area is home to numerous small independently owned and operated restaurants, bars, bistros and cafés.

Public transit

The neighbourhood is served by two

Claire-Morissette bike path on De Maisonneuve Boulevard cuts through the centre of the neighbourhood, and the area is well served by BIXI Montréal
stations.

References

  1. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  4. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  5. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  7. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  8. ^ "Census Profile, 2016 Census". Statistics Canada. Statistics Canada. 8 February 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  9. ^ Montrealbits.com:Shaughnessy Village
  10. ^ Gyulai, Linda. "Of Blight and Renewal". PressReader. The Gazette (Postmedia). Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  11. ^ "L'Association du Village Shaughnessy Village Association". Retrieved 2008-03-30.
  12. ^ Andrea Zanin. "The Village Comes Out: A Quick History". Go-Montreal.com. Archived from the original on 2008-03-28. Retrieved 2008-03-28.

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