Chinatown (Montreal)

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One of the four gates to Chinatown

The Chinatown ( French Quartier chinois ) is a district in the center of Montreal . It borders the old town to the west and is located between Avenue Viger, Rue Saint-Dominique, Boulevard René-Lévesque and Rue Jeanne-Mance. The Rue de La Gauchetière, which runs through the district, is designed as a pedestrian zone in the area of ​​the intersection with the Boulevard Saint-Laurent . There are numerous restaurants, shops and cultural institutions. Four false gates mark the boundaries of the quarter.

history

In the last quarter of the 19th century, today's Chinatown initially developed into the preferred residential area for Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. They ran numerous shops and founded several synagogues . In the 1920s, almost all Jews moved and settled further west in neighborhoods on Mont Royal , particularly Outremont . Chinese people increasingly took their place . Most of them were Cantonese- speaking immigrants from southern China or Chinese who had meanwhile lived in British Columbia and worked in railway construction. Later came Hong Kong -Chinesen and Hoa (ethnic Chinese from Vietnam ) added.

Extensive construction projects such as the Palais des congrès de Montréal (convention center) and the Complexe Guy-Favreau (administration building of the federal government) led to the demolition of numerous old buildings and the downsizing of Chinatown in the 1970s. The creation of the pedestrian zone in the 1980s stopped the economic downturn and the district developed into a tourist destination. Since the end of the 1990s , a second Chinatown has been developing in the area west of Concordia University , especially on Rue Sainte-Catherine , which is livened up by students from China and other East Asian countries.

Web links

Commons : Chinatown (Montreal)  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ When Chinatown was a Jewish neighborhood. (No longer available online.) Spacing Montréal, January 28, 2008, archived from the original on August 9, 2011 ; accessed on November 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spacingmontreal.ca
  2. ^ Paul Yee: Chinatown: An illustrated history of the Chinese Communities of Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax. James Lorimer & Company Limited, Toronto, 2005.
  3. ^ Montreal Chinatown. Montreal Walking Tours, accessed November 10, 2011 .
  4. Montreal's other Chinatown in 2009. (No longer available online.) Spacing Montréal, April 14, 2009, archived from the original on November 22, 2011 ; accessed on November 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / spacingmontreal.ca

Coordinates: 45 ° 30 ′  N , 73 ° 34 ′  W