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Pointe-Saint-Charles (Montreal)

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Pointe-Saint-Charles (known locally as simply The Point) is a neighbourhood in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located between the Saint Lawrence River and the Lachine Canal.

Pointe-Saint-Charles was one of Canada's first industrial slums. The majority of its residents were Irish along with a sizeable English and Scots immigrant population. The neighbourhood is today one of the most ethnically diverse in Canada and in the World. It was an ethnic Irish Catholic enclave, home to many industrial workers in the 19th and 20th centuries.

More recently, the neighbourhood has undergone gentrification. The Montreal Technoparc industrial park opened in 1988 on the site of a former landfill and dump site between the neighbourhood and the river.
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Coordinates:   45°28'45"N   73°33'36"W

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  • Joe Sebastyan, P. Eng., M.B.A., The Point was my parents' and our families' residence from 1935 till 1950. It was a filthy place to live in and full of vermin. You had cats not as pets. The Point was not an exclusive Irish Catholic enclave but was a Multi-national (European) Catholic Enclave with Polish Catholic and Ukrainian Catholic Churches and Social Clubs. It was always a hostile relationship between the English-speaking and French-speaking residents. European English-speaking settlers in the Point had to fight their way to schools, churches and fight to play on the baseball diamonds. There was no such thing as English-speaking kids playing on French-speaking sports teams. Looking further into the partition of the Point, for their safety, peace of mind and comfort, the Italians almost exclusively lived in "Goose Village" and the Irish lived almost exclusively in "Griffintown". A sizable Scot and English population lived around St. Gabriel Church, St. Gabriel Academy, Canon O'Mara School, St. Columba House, Sarsfield School. The rest of the English-speeking Europeans fought for their little enclaves.
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