Comments on: My Neighborhood: Near The Canal http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/ Exploring urban life through word and photography Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:52:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Christopher DeWolf http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Christopher DeWolf Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:52:46 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/#comment-208 Actually, I find the borders to be very clear. Only the line between Little Burgundy and Griffintown is murky. North of the canal, St. Henri and Little Burgundy are divided by Atwater. Point St. Charles is south of the canal and east of Highway 15. Verdun is east of the 15 between the Aqueduct Canal and the river. Ville-Émard is east of the 15, between the Lachine Canal and the Aqueduct Canal. Simple as that! Actually, I find the borders to be very clear. Only the line between Little Burgundy and Griffintown is murky. North of the canal, St. Henri and Little Burgundy are divided by Atwater. Point St. Charles is south of the canal and east of Highway 15. Verdun is east of the 15 between the Aqueduct Canal and the river. Ville-Émard is east of the 15, between the Lachine Canal and the Aqueduct Canal.

Simple as that!

]]> By: aj http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-206 aj Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:46:06 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/#comment-206 it's sort of confusing at times because there are no official boundaries, just traditional concepts. i.e. west of Atwater is St-henri, south of the atwater market is Verdun, east of Atwater is Little Burgundy (containing the antiques district), go down from Charlevoix or Des Seigneurs across the canal and you're in Point-St-Charles, and pretty much everything south of Notre-Dame east of Guy to University (where Old Montreal starts) is Griffintown...Chris, correct me if I'm wrong? it’s sort of confusing at times because there are no official boundaries, just traditional concepts. i.e. west of Atwater is St-henri, south of the atwater market is Verdun, east of Atwater is Little Burgundy (containing the antiques district), go down from Charlevoix or Des Seigneurs across the canal and you’re in Point-St-Charles, and pretty much everything south of Notre-Dame east of Guy to University (where Old Montreal starts) is Griffintown…Chris, correct me if I’m wrong?

]]> By: Christopher DeWolf http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Christopher DeWolf Wed, 08 Nov 2006 06:51:54 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/#comment-198 "Le Quartier des Antiquaires" simply refers to the small stretch of Notre-Dame Street that has a lot of antiques shops. Little Burgundy is the larger neighbourhood; it is the traditional heart of Montreal's anglophone black community. In the 1960s, a huge portion of its buildings were destroyed and replaced by Modernist housing projects; in the 1970s and 80s, the railyard at its centre was redeveloped as townhouses and condos. As the result the area is kind of quiet right now. It had its heart ripped out, basically. “Le Quartier des Antiquaires” simply refers to the small stretch of Notre-Dame Street that has a lot of antiques shops. Little Burgundy is the larger neighbourhood; it is the traditional heart of Montreal’s anglophone black community. In the 1960s, a huge portion of its buildings were destroyed and replaced by Modernist housing projects; in the 1970s and 80s, the railyard at its centre was redeveloped as townhouses and condos.

As the result the area is kind of quiet right now. It had its heart ripped out, basically.

]]> By: Patrick Donovan http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-197 Patrick Donovan Wed, 08 Nov 2006 00:17:14 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/#comment-197 Isn't "Le Quartier des Antiquaires" the same thing as "Little Burgundy"? If not, what's the difference? Isn’t “Le Quartier des Antiquaires” the same thing as “Little Burgundy”? If not, what’s the difference?

]]> By: aj http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-194 aj Tue, 07 Nov 2006 20:17:53 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/#comment-194 It already is, if you count the artist lofts, collective spaces and galleries in Griffintown like Friendship Cove (www.myspace.com/friendshipcove). There's going to be more commercial infill soon, according to my sources that block that's slated for demolition (from my last post) is going to become a grocery store with student residences for the ETS upstairs. More stores are filling in the empty spaces in the street-level arcade in the Terrasses Windsor condos. I don't know if the north side was so much "decimated" by urban renewal, so much as there wasn't much there to begin with. Most of the area was a giant train switching yard until it was redeveloped into those 1970s townhouses and later 1980s condos on the blocks between St-Jacques and Notre-Dame; and they never thought to rebuild proper retail streets along the main axes. If anything, St-Jacques is a bit worse as it's more-or-less a highway, it only regains fine scale closer to Atwater. It already is, if you count the artist lofts, collective spaces and galleries in Griffintown like Friendship Cove (www.myspace.com/friendshipcove).

There’s going to be more commercial infill soon, according to my sources that block that’s slated for demolition (from my last post) is going to become a grocery store with student residences for the ETS upstairs. More stores are filling in the empty spaces in the street-level arcade in the Terrasses Windsor condos.

I don’t know if the north side was so much “decimated” by urban renewal, so much as there wasn’t much there to begin with. Most of the area was a giant train switching yard until it was redeveloped into those 1970s townhouses and later 1980s condos on the blocks between St-Jacques and Notre-Dame; and they never thought to rebuild proper retail streets along the main axes. If anything, St-Jacques is a bit worse as it’s more-or-less a highway, it only regains fine scale closer to Atwater.

]]> By: Christopher DeWolf http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Christopher DeWolf Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:25:43 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/#comment-191 It's an interesting, emerging neighbourhood. I have to admit that I'm always sad walking down your street, though. On the south side there is a solid row of gorgeous old commercial buildings like in your first photo, reminiscent of Mount Royal Avenue or any one of Montreal's other great streets. But the north side was totally decimated by urban renewal and is lined by fences and empty parks. It really makes the street feel incomplete. The rest of the neighbourhood has a lot of potential. Narrow streets lined by old industrial buildings... it will be a playground for artists soon enough. It’s an interesting, emerging neighbourhood. I have to admit that I’m always sad walking down your street, though. On the south side there is a solid row of gorgeous old commercial buildings like in your first photo, reminiscent of Mount Royal Avenue or any one of Montreal’s other great streets. But the north side was totally decimated by urban renewal and is lined by fences and empty parks. It really makes the street feel incomplete.

The rest of the neighbourhood has a lot of potential. Narrow streets lined by old industrial buildings… it will be a playground for artists soon enough.

]]> By: Ken Gildner http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/comment-page-1/#comment-183 Ken Gildner Mon, 06 Nov 2006 18:54:44 +0000 http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2006/11/05/my-neighborhood-near-the-canal/#comment-183 You are fortunate to live in such a lovely district! Great photos! You are fortunate to live in such a lovely district! Great photos!

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