La Petite-Patrie

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La Petite-Patrie
Neighbourhood
Saint-Ambroise Church, on Beaubien Street.
La Petite-Patrie is located in Montreal
La Petite-Patrie
La Petite-Patrie
Location of La Petite-Patrie in Montreal
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Country Canada
Province Quebec
City Montreal
Borough Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie

La Petite-Patrie is a neighborhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie.

The area is bounded on the west by Hutchison Street to the north by Jean Talon Street, to the south by the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks and to the east by Papineau Street [1]

La Petite-Patrie is named after the novel La Petite Patrie by Claude Jasmin, published in 1972, which was adapted into television series (La Petite Patrie) shortly after.

Originally a working class neighbourhood, Petite-Patrie began to gentrify in the early twenty-first century.

History

Until the late nineteenth century, La Petite-Patrie was mainly agricultural, with the exception of limestone quarries which were located where Père-Marquette Park is today.

The construction of a tramway in 1892 linking downtown to the Sault-au-Récollet led to the urbanization of the area, which continued until about 1930. It was still a predominantly residential neighborhood: the only jobs were concentrated along the railway, in the workshops of Montreal or those of the Montreal Street Railway.

Demographics

A report by the Centre de santé et de services sociaux (CSSS) du Cœur-de-l'île,[2] the neighborhood's population consists of:

The area includes several ethnic communities, including an Italian community, a Vietnamese community and a Latin American community.

Transport

Roads

The main roads in La Petite-Patrie include:

St-Dominique Street (just east of Saint Laurent Boulevard).

Public transit

Bicycle paths

  • La Petite-Patrie is crossed by three bicycle paths:
    • Along the Canadian Pacific railway line to the south
    • Along Boyer Street
    • Along Saint Zotique Street in the east.

Public services

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The Youth Division of the Court of Quebec located on Bellechasse Street.

Education

The Commission scolaire de Montréal (CSDM) operates Francophone public schools.

The English Montreal School Board (EMSB) operates Anglophone public schools.

The Montreal Public Libraries Network operates the La Petite-Patrie library[3] and the Bibliothèque Marc-Favreau, which opened in December 2013.[4]

Sports and recreation

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Père-Marquette Park

Economy

Places of worship

References