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43_91 | is characterized by several prominent boulevards where commercial activity is concentrated. This |
43_92 | design element also traces its history back to the earliest urban design planning native to Canada. |
43_93 | NDG is almost exclusively residential and institutional in nature, defined in part by major |
43_94 | Anglophone civic institutions anchoring its eastern and western ends. These are the MUHC hospital |
43_95 | at the Glen Yards, adjacent to the Vendome intermodal station and the Loyola campus of Concordia |
43_96 | University (situated next to the Montreal-West commuter rail station, respectively). Public |
43_97 | schools, libraries, places of worship, parks, playgrounds, and public athletic facilities, |
43_98 | including a local chapter of the Montreal YMCA, are distributed throughout the area. Housing tends |
43_99 | towards the antique, with much of the construction occurring between 1910 and 1940 and providing a |
43_100 | unique mix of Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Beaux-Arts influences on traditional Quebecois |
43_101 | architectural styles. There a variety of housing styles found in the borough, though the dominant |
43_102 | and favored style remains the red brick duplex row-house. Adding to its residential appeal, the |
43_103 | community is well known for its tree-lined streets and general walkability. |
43_104 | An important housing project is situated near the geographical center of NDG on Cavendish |
43_105 | Boulevard, which bisects the borough into its eastern and western halves. The Benny Farm housing |
43_106 | project was built to serve the needs of veterans returning from Second World War service, though |
43_107 | was later designated as subsidized housing. The housing and surrounding landscaping was |
43_108 | rehabilitated in the early 2000s, with new low-cost housing and additional public facilities built, |
43_109 | such as the Benny Farm CLSC (a community center with many social services including a clinic run by |
43_110 | the provincial health ministry). |
43_111 | The Décarie Expressway trench and the mainline of the Canadian Pacific railway each forms barriers |
43_112 | that arguably disrupt the cohesiveness of the borough. As such, sections of NDG have unique |
43_113 | characteristics and be characterized as well-defined neighborhoods. As an example, the sliver of |
43_114 | NDG running between the rail line and the Saint-Jacques Escarpment (from Cavendish Boulevard to the |
43_115 | Décarie Expressway) is known as St. Raymond's and has a strong association with Montreal's Italian |
43_116 | community. Another section, separated from the rest of NDG by a highway trench and sharing a border |
43_117 | with Westmount, is closer to where the village of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was founded, and as such is |
43_118 | occasionally referred to as 'Old NDG'. |
43_119 | NDG first rose to prominence as an important middle-class suburb towards the end of the 19th |
43_120 | century, initially populated by the (then) new white-collar workforce of the Canadian metropolis |
43_121 | and accessible via tramways running to and from the city center. As widespread suburbanization |
43_122 | developed in the post-WW2 period, NDG became home to successive waves of immigrants, first from |
43_123 | Eastern Europe (including a sizeable Jewish population), then from the Caribbean, and more recently |
43_124 | from Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Concurrently, Anglophone Montrealers consolidated |
43_125 | in the West End broadly speaking, with Montreal's Irish and Black communities shifting away from |
43_126 | their traditional neighborhoods (Griffintown and Little Burgundy respectively) and taking a more |
43_127 | prominent position within the demographics of the area. |
43_128 | Today NDG is a cosmopolitan mixed-income urban neighborhood highly sought after by young |
43_129 | professionals. The multitude of services, including parks and other green spaces, schools, clinics, |
43_130 | and major institutions, make it an ideal neighborhood to raise a family close to the center of the |
43_131 | city of Montreal and its Central Business District. The vintage and antique housing is generally |
43_132 | well kept and the aesthetic of the early 20th-century first-ring suburb has been preserved. |
43_133 | Additionally, NDG is well-served by public transit, including numerous bus lines, two Métro, and |
43_134 | two commuter train stations, allowing the area to be one of the most 'walkable' in the entire city. |
43_135 | Sports and recreation |
43_136 | NDG is well known for many large parks including NDG Park (known as Girouard Park), Loyola Park, |
43_137 | and Trenholme Park. The area has three indoor hockey arenas: the public Doug Harvey Arena (formerly |
43_138 | Confederation Arena) and the private Lower Canada College High School and Concordia University (Ed |
43_139 | Meagher Arena) rinks. NDG is also home to the NDG YMCA, which includes a pool, gym, and recreation |
43_140 | programs for youth and adults. |
43_141 | The NDG Senior Lynx made it to Little League Baseball's Senior League World Series in 2011 and |
43_142 | 2012, representing the region of Canada. |
43_143 | NDG is home to the Montreal Exiles Rugby Football club (www.montrealexiles.com) who have mini-rugby |
43_144 | 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 |
43_145 | rugby. Founded in 2011, the senior men's side featured in the provincial finals in 2011, losing to |
43_146 | Westmount in the semi-final, and again in 2012 winning the Division C league and Cup. Their home |
43_147 | field is Confederation Park. |
43_148 | Transportation |
43_149 | The public transport agency that operates transit bus and rapid transit services in Montreal is the |
43_150 | Société de transport de Montréal (STM). |
43_151 | Rapid transit |
43_152 | The orange line of Montreal's Metro runs through the borough, following the Décarie Expressway with |
43_153 | Villa Maria and Vendôme located on the eastern side of the autoroute trench. |
43_154 | NDG is also served by a variety of STM bus lines offering various service levels: |
43_155 | 10-minute maximum (6:00-21:00) |
43_156 | 24 Sherbrooke: East-West local bus serving Décarie Boulevard in NDG, Villa Maria metro station is |
43_157 | its western terminus. |
43_158 | 51 Edouard-Montpetit: East-West local bus serving Fielding Avenue. Montreal-Ouest commuter rail |
43_159 | station is its western terminus. |
43_160 | 105 Sherbrooke: East-West local bus serving Sherbrooke street in NDG. Montreal-Ouest commuter rail |
43_161 | station and Vendôme metro station are its western and eastern termini, respectively. |
43_162 | 10-minute maximum (6:00-14:00 East)(14:00-21:00 West) |
43_163 | 90 Saint-Jacques: East-west local bus serving Saint-Jacques Boulevard in NDG. Connections with |
43_164 | Vendôme metro station. |
43_165 | 103 Monkland: East-West local bus serving Monkland, Grand Boulevard in NDG. Villa Maria metro |
43_166 | station serves as its eastern terminus. |
43_167 | Local (day) |
43_168 | 17 Décarie: North-South local bus serving Girouard Boulevard in NDG. Connections with Vendôme |
43_169 | metro station. |
43_170 | 63 Girouard: North-South local bus serving Girouard Boulevard in NDG. |
43_171 | 102 Somerled: East-West local bus serving Somerled Avenue in NDG. Its eastern terminus is Vendôme |
43_172 | metro station. |
43_173 | 104 Cavendish: East-West local bus serving Cavendish Boulevard in NDG. Connections with Vendôme |
43_174 | metro station. |
43_175 | 138 Notre-Dame-de-Grâce: East-West local bus serving Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Cavendish in NDG. |
43_176 | 162 Westminster: East-West local bus serving Monkland Avenue in NDG. Its eastern terminus is Villa |
43_177 | Maria metro station. |
43_178 | Express (day) |
43_179 | 420 Notre-Dame-De-Grâce Express: Commuter express bus that stops along Cavendish Boulevard and |
43_180 | Sherbrooke before it goes to Downtown Montreal. |
43_181 | All night |
43_182 | 356: Night bus that serves Sherbrooke street in NDG. Operates from 2:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. |
43_183 | Streetscape |
43_184 | The major commercial streets are Monkland Avenue, Somerled Avenue and Sherbrooke Street West. |
43_185 | Monkland Village comprises a cluster of businesses on the eastern part of Monkland Avenue that was |
43_186 | revitalized in the 1990s. The Décarie Expressway is a major sunken urban highway that runs |
43_187 | north–south and splits eastern NDG into two segments. Several bridges connect both sides of the |
43_188 | borough for both vehicles and pedestrians. |
43_189 | Street names
The following is a list of street names in the area and what/who they're named after: |
43_190 | Trenholme Street named after the founder of Elmhurst Dairy Thomas Anderson Trenholme |
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