New park and three new streets
There’s going to be a new park in Lasalle, the Parc de Taishan, named after a town in China where some of Lasalle’s residents were born, and three new streets, one of which is the renaming of what’s essentially an alley in the Quartier latin. All three are all to be named after women.
DeWolf 10:35 on 2022-10-19 Permalink
That particular section of LaSalle (the cluster of new high-rise apartment buildings near Angrignon metro) is one of Montreal’s fastest-growing Chinese enclaves. In the document outlining its rationale for naming the park, the borough notes that more than half the neighbourhood’s residents are of Chinese origin:
https://ville.montreal.qc.ca/documents/Adi_Public/CA_Las/CA_Las_ODJP_ORDI_2021-12-13_19h00_FR.pdf#page=10
Kate 10:50 on 2022-10-19 Permalink
DeWolf, is there a new Chinatown coalescing in the area?
DeWolf 17:38 on 2022-10-19 Permalink
Kinda! Last time I passed by there were some small Chinese businesses in those new condo towers. But most of the Chinese commercial activity in LaSalle is spread out around the borough. There’s a big supermarket called Ocean Plus near the canal, and some restaurants on the main streets like Newman and Dollard, but nothing very concentrated.
The other emerging Chinese neighbourhood is in VSL/Cartierville – there is already a cluster of Chinese supermarkets and other businesses near Bois-Franc and the Lachapelle Bridge, and the largest T&T Supermarket in Canada is about to open in VSL.
Then of course there’s Brossard. I recently learned that the main reason it attracted Chinese immigrants in the first place is because of a single real estate agent, Henry Ho, who had settled in the area and sold other immigrants on it. Things just kind of snowballed from there. (Incidentally, his daughter is Denise Ho, a well-known pop star and pro-democracy/LGBTQ activist in Hong Kong.)
CE 20:33 on 2022-10-19 Permalink
A few months ago, I had heard that Uyghur food is excellent so went looking to places I could try it. I ended up at a strip mall in Lasalle (where there are two). I couldn’t find a single one in central Montreal (to validate DeWolf’s comment, the other ones are in VSL and Brossard). It was a great meal!
carswell 21:05 on 2022-10-19 Permalink
CE There used to be one in NDG or thereabouts, an excellent one on CDN north of Van Horne and another short-lived one downtown (Chinatown?). All gone. Unfortunately because, as you note, the food can be delicious.