Chinatown (Rue de la Gauchetière and the paifang gates)

This compact Chinatown is the heart of a community that came to build the railways and was met with the Chinese head tax and the 1923 Exclusion Act. The paifang gates mark it; the streets hold the institutions that survived discrimination and, more recently, expressway construction and redevelopment that erased much of it. Read it as resilience under pressure — and a living district under threat.

A small, historic Chinatown along Rue de la Gauchetière — shaped by railway-era Chinese immigration and the head tax, now fighting development pressure.

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