Rue Saint-Viateur and Mordecai Richler's Mile End

Walk these streets reading them through Richler. This was the heart of working-class immigrant Jewish Montreal in the 1930s–50s, the world of 'Duddy Kravitz' and 'St. Urbain's Horseman.' Rue Saint-Urbain itself runs nearby. The bagel bakeries that fed that community still bake; the synagogues mostly became other things. It's a palimpsest of migration.

The streets of Mordecai Richler's childhood — the Jewish immigrant Mile End of the early-to-mid 20th century, now layered with later waves.

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