Monkland Village
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Monkland Village is a neighbourhood in the Montreal borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. It is located along Monkland Avenue between Cavendish Boulevard and the Décarie Expressway that runs through the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce part of the borough. Both the neighbourhood and the avenue are named after James Monk, who was the attorney general of Lower Canada, and chief justice to the court of the Queen's Bench from 1804 to 1824. This area in particular became associated with Monk due to the estate he built in 1804 known as Monklands. This estate would later become the Governor General's residence, and was later on sold to the Congregation de Notre-Dame who would use the building for the Villa Maria private Catholic girls school.[1]
Today the area is home to many small businesses including restaurants, cafés, taverns and boutiques.
[edit] References
- ^ Santerre, Jason (2006). Neighbourhoods: Monkland Village. Montreal Magazine. Retrieved on 2008-05-28.
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