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Fairmount Avenue (1895)
name from the residence "Villa Fairmount, Bagg family home in the northwest corner of Sherbrooke Street and St. Urbain 1842 and demolished in March 1849.
This path has already brought names Bélanger and St. Eugene.
FLEURY Street (May 27, 1912), place and patio (2 June 1958)
name of a taxpayer Ahuntsic district.
Street Fleury had already borne the names of 44th Avenue and Nelson Street.
FRONTENAC Street
Louis de Buade Palluau and Frontenac (1620-1698) General Staff of the King's armies, and governor general of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to 1698.
FULLUM Street (May 7, 1847)
George Fullum who has opened the way on his land.
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Gouin Boulevard (October 20, 1910)
Sir Lomer Gouin (1861-1929), Premier (1905-1920) and Lieutenant Governor (1929) in the province of Quebec.
Old names: Public Road and Falls Road.
Guizot Street (May 27, 1912)
Francois Guizot (1787-1874), statesman and historian French.
Old Name: 34th Avenue
GUY Street (August 30, 1817)
The existence of Guy Street dates back to 1815. At that time it was the magistrates who had charge of the administration of the city, and it was they who decided to open this road through the land of Stephen Guy, notary and surveyor, who had kindly free to sell the city the land for this purpose.
August 30, 1817, the justices, who no doubt express their gratitude to Mr. Guy, decided that this new route would be called Guy.
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Henri-Bourassa Boulevard (December 5, 1952) and place (January 28, 1963)
Henri Bourassa (1868-1952), journalist, politician, founder of newspaper Le Devoir.
Parts Boulevard Henri-Bourassa have already borne the names: Grand Boulevard Avenue Paradis, rue Sainte-Helene 46th Avenue, Kelly Street, Boulevard Street and Perras Leduc.
HOCHELAGA Street
Open through the territory of the former village of Hochelaga annexed to Montreal in 1883, rue Hochelaga recalls, as the municipality itself, the Indian village, including Jacques-Cartier, 1535, discovered the presence in the flank of Mount Royal.
Old names: New Street, Maple, Girard, 2nd street, Rue Lamartine, Forget, ernest, Dorchester and Honfleur.
HOSPITAL street
section of a road that once started at the west end of Ville-Marie, corner St. Jacques and McGill, and ended at the hospital of the Hotel Dieu at the corner of Rue Saint-Sulpice and Saint-Paul. Note that until about 1680, the Hotel-Dieu was simply known as the Hospital.
HOTEL-DE-VILLE, Avenue (March 8, 1895)
Way that leads to City Hall.
This path has already brought names: St. Germans, German Street, St. Germain, St. Pantaleon, Stuart Street.
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IBERVILLE, rue d '(before 1879) and terrace of
Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville (1661-1706), born in Montreal, the third son of Charles Le Moyne. He is the greatest man of war what have produced the New France. His greatest achievements took place at Hudson's Bay and Newfoundland. He later discovered the mouth of the Mississippi, founded in 1700 and Louisiana (named in honor of Louis XIV) and was its first governor.
It is worth adding that on the rue Saint-Sulpice in the western corner of the Rue Saint-Paul, the Committee on Sites and Monuments Board of Canada has posted a small bronze plaque reads: " Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville, who was born here July 20, 1661, died aboard the "Fair", buried in the Cathedral Havana July 9, 1706. The greatest soldier produced by New France. "
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Jarry Street
Bleignier Stanislaus, Jarry said "Father", a farmer from the parish of St. Lawrence and the owner of the land through which the street was opened at Jarry origin.
Portions of this pathway are already known: 33rd Avenue, Rochambeau Street, Suzor-Cote, Alice and Blair.
JEANNE-MANCE Street (November 4, 1914)
Jeanne Mance (1606-1673), founder of the St. Joseph Hospital, called later the Hotel-Dieu de Ville-Marie.
Portions of this has already brought names: Jeanne Mance, Racine, Mance, Upper Saint George, Saint-Sulpice and Saint George.
Jean-Talon Street (January 17, 1927)
Jean Talon, Baron and Earl of Islets Orsainville (1625-1694), steward (1665) of New France. He had been chosen, "said Louis XIV," because he had all the qualities needed to make a perfect knowledge of the state of the country and to reform abuses in the administration of justice, police and Finance ". under his administration, the colony became widespread: trade, industry and agriculture prospered to the point that Talon could say, 1671, he had "production in Canada of what to dress head to toe."
Parts of this track carried the following names: Hugh Hopper, Ventadour, Baugh, Isabeau, Tiffin, Bagg Baby Hanoteau, Namur, Marche, Saint-Pascal, avenue Dresden, chemin de la Petite Liesse, Chemin de la Savane.
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LACORDAIRE Street (May 29, 1911)
Jean-Baptiste-Henri Lacordaire (1802-1861), French Dominican preacher of the last century.
Old Name: 2nd Ave.
la Gauchetière Street
Daniel Migeon, Sieur de La Gauchetiere (1671-1746), owner of Captain stronghold through which passes this way.
Parts of this track called Osborne, January and St. Janvier.
LANGELIER Place (July 15, 1954) and Street (November 4, 1914)
Sir Francis Charles-Stanislas Langelier (1838-1915), lawyer, minister of land and treasurer of the Province of Quebec (1878 -1879), Mayor of Quebec (1882-1890), Chief Justice of Quebec in 1906, lieutenant-governor of the province of Quebec in 1911.
ROCK Street (29 May 1911)
Troilus Mergou, Marquis de la Roche (1540-1606), second lieutenant of the king in New France (1598). It was he who went to the New World with 60 men, most of the habitual criminal. Fearing their desertion, he placed them on Sable Island, at the entrance to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and could not get them until 5 years later. Only twelve survived.
LAUREL Avenue (April 4, 1899)
Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919), lawyer and statesman, Chairman and Prime Minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. Member of the Imperial Privy Council in 1897.
Old names: St. Louis, St. Jerome and Vermette.
LIEGE, street (23 May 1922)
From August 4, 1914, 120,000 Germans arrived at the fortified camp of Liege, Belgium, defended by a garrison (the "Iron Division") of 35,000 men only, commanded by General Gerard Leman. By its resistance, the German onslaught was delayed by ten days.
Old names: 35th Avenue Street Talleyrand Avenue Howard, chemin de la Cote-Saint-Michel.
Lorimier Avenue (June 27, 1883)
François-Marie Thomas Chevalier de Lorimier (1803-1839), notary in Montreal, a patriot who organized the uprising in 1838 in Beauharnois, sentenced and executed in 1839. This way
formerly known Colborne Avenue.
Louis-Hebert Avenue (June 20, 1938)
Louis Hebert (1575-1627), apothecary, first settler of New France, arrived with his family in 1617, and first lord of Canada. This street was formerly called Avenue Poupart.
LOUIS HEMON Street (December 29, 1934)
Louis Hemon (1880-1913), French novelist. Came to Canada in 1910, he stayed in Peribonka (region Lac Saint-Jean) where he wrote "Maria Chapdelaine" pathetic episode in the life of the settlers of this region, there are over 50 years.
Somewhat vagabond, he was killed by a locomotive while walking on the tracks in Chapleau, Ontario. This way
was formerly called Fullum.
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