Shaughnessy Village | |
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 Apartment buildings in the Shaughnessy Village | |
  Shaughnessy Village Location of Shaughnessy Village inMontreal | |
| Coordinates:45°29′34″N73°34′49″W / 45.492814°N 73.58041°W /45.492814; -73.58041 | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| City | Montreal |
| Borough | Ville-Marie |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.70 km2 (0.27 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 15,677 |
| • Density | 22,396/km2 (58,063/sq mi) |
| Postal Code | |
| Area code(s) | 514, 438 |
Shaughnessy Village (sometimes referred to as theConcordiaGhetto) is aneighbourhood ofMontreal,Quebec,Canada, located on the western side of theVille-Marie borough. It is bounded byGuy Street to the east,Atwater Street to the west,Sherbrooke Street to the north, andRené Lévesque Boulevard and theVille-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 andbeaux-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 forThomas Shaughnessy, president of theCanadian Pacific Railway.[10] The house was declared aNational Historic Site of Canada in 1974, and is now part of theCanadian Centre for Architecture.[11]
Other notable landmarks in the area include theMontreal Forum, the former site of theMontreal Children's Hospital onAtwater Avenue, andLe Faubourg Sainte-Catherine shopping mall andCabot Square.
Prior toExpo '67 and the Olympics, this neighbourhood was considered the city's second Gay Village (mostly by anglophones).[12]
It is thus one of the more cosmopolitan neighbourhoods in the city, as well as being generally moreEnglish-speaking than the rest of Montreal. There is a sizeable population ofChinese-Canadians living in the area, so much so that part of the informally named Concordia Ghetto is also sometimes referred to asNew Chinatown / Chinatown West. Much like Montreal's mainChinatown, it is pan-Asiatic, rather than uniquely Chinese.
The area is home to numerous small independently owned and operated restaurants, bars, bistros and cafés.
The neighbourhood is served by twoMontreal Metro stations. In the north of the neighbourhood, on theGreen Line,Guy-Concordia andAtwater stations are located. The area is also well-served by numerous bus lines terminating at Atwater Station that connectWestmount,Côte-des-Neiges, and much of the rest of the urban core. TheClaire-Morissette bike path onDe Maisonneuve Boulevard cuts through the centre of the neighbourhood, and the area is well served byBIXI Montréal stations.
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