Petite-Patrie
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| Coordinates: 45°32′16″N 73°36′06″W / 45.537798°N 73.601625°WCoordinates: 45°32′16″N 73°36′06″W / 45.537798°N 73.601625°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Quebec |
| City | Montreal |
| Borough | Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie |
La Petite-Patrie is a neighbourhood 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
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.
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.
A report by the Centre de santé et de services sociaux (CSSS) du Cœur-de-l'île, the neighborhood's population consists of:
The area includes several ethnic communities, including an Italian community, a Vietnamese community and a Latin American community.
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