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is characterized by several prominent boulevards where commercial activity is concentrated. This
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design element also traces its history back to the earliest urban design planning native to Canada.
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NDG is almost exclusively residential and institutional in nature, defined in part by major
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Anglophone civic institutions anchoring its eastern and western ends. These are the MUHC hospital
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at the Glen Yards, adjacent to the Vendome intermodal station and the Loyola campus of Concordia
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University (situated next to the Montreal-West commuter rail station, respectively). Public
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schools, libraries, places of worship, parks, playgrounds, and public athletic facilities,
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including a local chapter of the Montreal YMCA, are distributed throughout the area. Housing tends
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towards the antique, with much of the construction occurring between 1910 and 1940 and providing a
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unique mix of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Beaux-Arts influences on traditional Quebecois
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architectural styles. There a variety of housing styles found in the borough, though the dominant
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and favored style remains the red brick duplex row-house. Adding to its residential appeal, the
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community is well known for its tree-lined streets and general walkability.
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An important housing project is situated near the geographical center of NDG on Cavendish
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Boulevard, which bisects the borough into its eastern and western halves. The Benny Farm housing
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project was built to serve the needs of veterans returning from Second World War service, though
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was later designated as subsidized housing. The housing and surrounding landscaping was
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rehabilitated in the early 2000s, with new low-cost housing and additional public facilities built,
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such as the Benny Farm CLSC (a community center with many social services including a clinic run by
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the provincial health ministry).
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The Décarie Expressway trench and the mainline of the Canadian Pacific railway each forms barriers
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that arguably disrupt the cohesiveness of the borough. As such, sections of NDG have unique
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characteristics and be characterized as well-defined neighborhoods. As an example, the sliver of
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NDG running between the rail line and the Saint-Jacques Escarpment (from Cavendish Boulevard to the
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Décarie Expressway) is known as St. Raymond's and has a strong association with Montreal's Italian
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community. Another section, separated from the rest of NDG by a highway trench and sharing a border
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with Westmount, is closer to where the village of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was founded, and as such is
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occasionally referred to as 'Old NDG'.
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NDG first rose to prominence as an important middle-class suburb towards the end of the 19th
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century, initially populated by the (then) new white-collar workforce of the Canadian metropolis
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and accessible via tramways running to and from the city center. As widespread suburbanization
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developed in the post-WW2 period, NDG became home to successive waves of immigrants, first from
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Eastern Europe (including a sizeable Jewish population), then from the Caribbean, and more recently
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from Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Concurrently, Anglophone Montrealers consolidated
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in the West End broadly speaking, with Montreal's Irish and Black communities shifting away from
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their traditional neighborhoods (Griffintown and Little Burgundy respectively) and taking a more
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prominent position within the demographics of the area.
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Today NDG is a cosmopolitan mixed-income urban neighborhood highly sought after by young
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professionals. The multitude of services, including parks and other green spaces, schools, clinics,
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and major institutions, make it an ideal neighborhood to raise a family close to the center of the
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city of Montreal and its Central Business District. The vintage and antique housing is generally
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well kept and the aesthetic of the early 20th-century first-ring suburb has been preserved.
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Additionally, NDG is well-served by public transit, including numerous bus lines, two Métro, and
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two commuter train stations, allowing the area to be one of the most 'walkable' in the entire city.
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Sports and recreation
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NDG is well known for many large parks including NDG Park (known as Girouard Park), Loyola Park,
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and Trenholme Park. The area has three indoor hockey arenas: the public Doug Harvey Arena (formerly
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Confederation Arena) and the private Lower Canada College High School and Concordia University (Ed
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Meagher Arena) rinks. NDG is also home to the NDG YMCA, which includes a pool, gym, and recreation
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programs for youth and adults.
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The NDG Senior Lynx made it to Little League Baseball's Senior League World Series in 2011 and
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2012, representing the region of Canada.
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NDG is home to the Montreal Exiles Rugby Football club (www.montrealexiles.com) who have mini-rugby
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teams (NDG Dragons) at U-6, U-8, U-10 U-12 and U-14 levels, Junior rugby at U-18 and senior men's
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rugby. Founded in 2011, the senior men's side featured in the provincial finals in 2011, losing to
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Westmount in the semi-final, and again in 2012 winning the Division C league and Cup. Their home
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field is Confederation Park.
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Transportation
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The public transport agency that operates transit bus and rapid transit services in Montreal is the
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Société de transport de Montréal (STM).
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Rapid transit
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The orange line of Montreal's Metro runs through the borough, following the Décarie Expressway with
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Villa Maria and Vendôme located on the eastern side of the autoroute trench.
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NDG is also served by a variety of STM bus lines offering various service levels:
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10-minute maximum (6:00-21:00)
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24 Sherbrooke: East-West local bus serving Décarie Boulevard in NDG, Villa Maria metro station is
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its western terminus.
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51 Edouard-Montpetit: East-West local bus serving Fielding Avenue. Montreal-Ouest commuter rail
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station is its western terminus.
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105 Sherbrooke: East-West local bus serving Sherbrooke street in NDG. Montreal-Ouest commuter rail
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station and Vendôme metro station are its western and eastern termini, respectively.
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10-minute maximum (6:00-14:00 East)(14:00-21:00 West)
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90 Saint-Jacques: East-west local bus serving Saint-Jacques Boulevard in NDG. Connections with
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Vendôme metro station.
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103 Monkland: East-West local bus serving Monkland, Grand Boulevard in NDG. Villa Maria metro
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station serves as its eastern terminus.
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Local (day)
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17 Décarie: North-South local bus serving Girouard Boulevard in NDG. Connections with Vendôme
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metro station.
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63 Girouard: North-South local bus serving Girouard Boulevard in NDG.
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102 Somerled: East-West local bus serving Somerled Avenue in NDG. Its eastern terminus is Vendôme
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metro station.
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104 Cavendish: East-West local bus serving Cavendish Boulevard in NDG. Connections with Vendôme
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metro station.
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138 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: East-West local bus serving Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Cavendish in NDG.
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162 Westminster: East-West local bus serving Monkland Avenue in NDG. Its eastern terminus is Villa
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Maria metro station.
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Express (day)
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420 Notre-Dame-De-Grâce Express: Commuter express bus that stops along Cavendish Boulevard and
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Sherbrooke before it goes to Downtown Montreal.
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All night
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356: Night bus that serves Sherbrooke street in NDG. Operates from 2:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.
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Streetscape
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The major commercial streets are Monkland Avenue, Somerled Avenue and Sherbrooke Street West.
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Monkland Village comprises a cluster of businesses on the eastern part of Monkland Avenue that was
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revitalized in the 1990s. The Décarie Expressway is a major sunken urban highway that runs
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north–south and splits eastern NDG into two segments. Several bridges connect both sides of the
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borough for both vehicles and pedestrians.
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Street names The following is a list of street names in the area and what/who they're named after:
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Trenholme Street named after the founder of Elmhurst Dairy Thomas Anderson Trenholme