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DANTE Street (May 23, 1922)
Dante Alighieri (1285-1321), Italian diplomat and poet. As the author of "Divine Comedy", it is considered the father of Italian poetry.
This name was given because this street is located in the center of a large Italian colony and close to the Italian church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Defense.
This street was formerly a street name Suzanne.
DAVIDSON Street (1887)
Mary Davidson, wife of William Darling gives this name to one of the avenues open to their land.
DECARIE Boulevard
Perpetuates the memory of the family Decarie, one of the oldest of the Notre-Dame-de-Grace or the track is located.
Called First Avenue Decarie, this route officially received the name of Decarie Boulevard May 27, 1912.
DECELLES Place (June 5, 1956) and The Avenue
Decelles was first opened around 1894 sold at an unspecified date, by the estate of Mrs. E. Crevier, married in first wedding of Augusta Candide Duclos-Decelles.
DÉZÉRY Street
Dezery Jean-Baptiste, donor of the land on which high at Hochelaga, a chapel dedicated to Our Lady September 15, 1838.
DICKSON Avenue
Family of the former district of Longue-Pointe neighborhood Mercier calls since March 5, 1915, in which this pathway is located.
DORCHESTER Boulevard (before 1844)
Guy Carleton, Lord Dorchester (1724-1808), Governor General of Canada from 1786 to 1778 and from 1786 to 1795.
March 17, 1960, the qualifier of "street" was changed to "boulevard" Dorchester, under a decision City Council of Montreal.
This artery had already called rue Saint-Jean-Baptiste.
DORION Street (April 7, 1902)
Sir Antoine Aime Dorion (1818-1891), lawyer, member of Montreal in 1854, Minister of Justice in 1873 (he passed the Act of secret ballot that of contesting elections), Chief Justice of the Province of Quebec (1874-1891) and director of that same province in 1876.
Previously, this street was called Shaw Street.
Drolet Street (before 1879)
Drolet Gustavus Adolphus (1848-1904), lawyer and journalist, one of the first Canadian to defend the pope in 1857.
Portions of this pathway are already known: Cowan, Sanguinet Henri-Julien.
DRUMMOND Street (1842)
John Redpath, Montreal city councilor from 1840 to 1843, and owner of land along this route, gave this name in honor of his wife, Jane Drummond born.
DUNKIRK Road (March 2, 1953)
This means, first, called Canora Road, but since it was an extension of Dunkirk Road Town of Mount Royal, the board gave him same name of Dunkirk (Dunkerque in French) to remind the city in France which was the scene of a fierce battle to allow the embarkation, begins May 27, 1940, the British Army of Flanders and 112,000 French, to England.
DUROCHER Street (July 29, 1837)
Lane opened in the land of Paul Hypolite Durocher-Simeon, and ceded by him in Montreal.
Certain sections of this pathway are already known as Park Avenue and Rue Verville.
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CHURCH, Avenue of the
Lane beside which stands the Church of St. Paul.
This path has already brought names: Saint-Pierre Road, Pavilion Road, Nelson Street, chemin de la Cote-Saint-Paul and Church Avenue.
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