Man stabbed in Saint-Henri bar
A man is in critical condition after a stabbing in a bar in an area TVA calls “le quartier Saint‑Paul” but I would’ve described as St‑Henri (corner of St‑Jacques and St‑Philippe, all these saints!), early Wednesday.
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Kate
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Ephraim 10:37 on 2022-11-23 Permalink
Fake saints… Philippe Turcot (who was married to Marguerite Arcouet and guess what street is named after her!) and Jean-Jacques Olier de Verneuil or Jacques Archambault. The church St Henri was named after Fr. Henri-Auguste Roux and likely the neighbourhood after the church. Nope, no saints at all
Kate 11:04 on 2022-11-23 Permalink
You’ve said that before, Ephraim, but it’s not fake. There was a tradition that you couldn’t name a place after a person, but you could name it after their patron saint. Classic example, Saint Helen’s Island was named after Samuel de Champlain’s child bride Hélène Boullé. She wasn’t a saint but there was a Saint Helen she was named for.
Had this tradition continued, we wouldn’t have a Boulevard Robert‑Bourassa, for instance, but a Boulevard Saint‑Robert. And so on.
Curious footnote, nobody knows for sure who the Catherine was for whom Ste‑Catherine Street is named.
MarcG 11:52 on 2022-11-23 Permalink
If that corner’s not in St-Henri nothing is.
carswell 11:54 on 2022-11-23 Permalink
Have heard — though only once, so it’s probably not true — that the street was named Ste-Catherine because it was to encircle the island or part of it. Per Catholic tradition, St. Catherine of Alexandria was to be martyred on a spiked wheel that shattered at her touch (she was beheaded instead). She’s often depicted with a wheel, and the association survives in modern English in “Catherine wheel,” a pinwheel firework.
Ephraim 15:30 on 2022-11-23 Permalink
It is fake in that it’s not named after the saint. They just added the St or Ste even if it wasn’t the name of a saint at all. And it’s not just Ste-Catherine, there are others, including St-Dominique. And the only other street really named after a Saint in Old Montreal, St-Francois-Xavier is because François Dollier de Casson wasn’t allowed to name a street after himself/his patron saint, St-Francois.
Ian 12:46 on 2022-11-24 Permalink
I was under the impression that Côte-St-Paul only began west of Courcelles?