The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Boulevard Saint-Laurent (the Main) — the dividing line
If you walk one street to understand the city, walk the Main. Saint-Laurent was the official dividing line between English west and French east — addresses still count east and west from it — and the corridor where Jewish, then Eastern European, Chinese, Portuguese, and Latin American immigrants successively landed. It's a designated National Historic Site precisely because it is the city's migration history made into a street.
The boulevard that split Montreal into Anglo west and French east and funneled every wave of immigrants — a National Historic Site of Canada.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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