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Monkland Avenue (Montreal)
Monkland Village is a neighbourhood of the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district in the Montreal borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. It is located between Grand Boulevard and the Décarie Expressway/Décarie Boulevard, and between Avenue Somerled and Chemin Côte-St-Antoine. The neighbourhood derives its name from Monkland Avenue, the commercial street at the heart of it. The Villa Maria metro station is located at the eastern end of Monkland Avenue. Origins Both the neighbourhood and the avenue are named after James Monk, who was the attorney general of Lower Canada, and chief justice to the court of the Queen's Bench from 1804 to 1824. This area in particular became associated with Monk due to the estate he built in 1804 known as ''Monklands''. This estate would later become the Governor General's residence, and was later sold to the Congregation de Notre-Dame who would use the building for the Villa Maria private Catholic school. Monkland Avenue Monkland Avenue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Neighbourhoods In Montreal
This is the list of the neighbourhoods in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They are sorted by the borough they are located in. Ahuntsic-Cartierville * Ahuntsic * Nouveau-Bordeaux * Cartierville *Saint-Sulpice * Sault-au-Récollet ( Île de la Visitation) Anjou *Bas-Anjou: The Southeastern older portion, where the main services are located (town Hall, main library, fire station, high school) *Haut-Anjou: The L-shaped part consisting of every street North of Autoroute 40 and every street West of Autoroute 25 Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce * Côte-des-Neiges * Notre-Dame-de-Grâce ** Benny Farm * Snowdon * Le Triangle Lachine * Ville Saint-Pierre LaSalle No particular neighbourhoods. Cecil-P.-Newman Sault-Saint-Louis Le Plateau-Mont-Royal The Plateau Montreal's trendy and colourful Plateau Mont Royal neighbourhood is located on the twin North-South axes of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Saint Denis Street, and East-West axes of Mount Royal Avenue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Monk
Sir James Monk (1745 – November 18, 1826) was Chief Justice of Lower Canada. Monk played a significant role in the abolition of slavery in British North America, when as Chief Justice he rendered a series of decisions regarding escaped slaves that 'while not technically abolishing slavery rendered it innocuous. The slave could not be compelled to serve longer than he would, and ... might leave his master at will.' Early life James Monk was born in 1745 at Boston, Massachusetts, and christened at King's Chapel. He was the son of Judge James Monk (1717-1768) of Halifax, Nova Scotia and his wife Ann, daughter of Henry Deering of Boston. Sir James Monk was a grandson of George Monk (b.1666) of Blatchingley, who was one of the three illegitimate sons of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle. James was educated in Halifax where his father had settled in 1749. He studied law with his father from 1761 to 1767 and was admitted to the bar in 1768. After his father died leaving th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neighbourhoods In Montreal
A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members. Researchers have not agreed on an exact definition, but the following may serve as a starting point: "Neighbourhood is generally defined spatially as a specific geographic area and functionally as a set of social networks. Neighbourhoods, then, are the spatial units in which face-to-face social interactions occur—the personal settings and situations where residents seek to realise common values, socialise youth, and maintain effective social control." Preindustrial cities In the words of the urban scholar Lewis Mumford, "Neighbourhoods, in some annoying, inchoate fashi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Première Moisson
Première Moisson is a chain of artisanal bakeries mostly operating in Quebec, Canada with one store at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa. It focuses on high-quality French breads and pastry, pastries. The company follows a model whereby various doughs are prepared in a central facility and then distributed to local bakeries, where they are finalized and baked on demand.''Le Devoir'', "Une simple affaire de farine" April 24, 2004 The company was founded in 1992 in Vaudreuil-Dorion, where it still maintains various large-scale production facilities, and has since remained a family business. The Montreal metropolitan area constitutes its biggest area of business, with a total of 13 bakeries, of which 10 are Concurrent estate, co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Second Cup
Second Cup Café, is a Canadian restaurant chain, coffee retailer, and roaster which operates more than 190 cafes nationwide. Its headquarters are in Pierrefonds, Québec. Its stores sell hot and cold beverages, pastries, snacks, pre-packaged food items, hot and cold sandwiches, and drinkware, including mugs and tumblers. History Second Cup was founded, in 1975, by Tom Culligan and Frank O'Dea, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Culligan eventually purchased O'Dea's shares, expanding it to a 150-store chain; he sold it, in 1988, to mmmuffins founder Michael Bregman. As chairman and CEO, Khalil Al Gawad took Second Cup public in 1993. Al Gawad sold the company to Cara Operations Limited, in 2002. In November 2006, Cara sold Second Cup to Dinecorp Hospitality, which was controlled by former Cara CEO Gabe Tsampalieros, who became chairman of Second Cup. Tsampalieros died on March 11, 2009. The trademark rights were subsequently split between Canada (The Second Cup Ltd.) and internatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Café
A coffeehouse, coffee shop, or café is an establishment that primarily serves coffee of various types, notably espresso, latte, and cappuccino. Some coffeehouses may serve cold drinks, such as iced coffee and iced tea, as well as other non-caffeinated beverages. In continental Europe, cafés serve alcoholic drinks. A coffeehouse may also serve food, such as light snacks, sandwiches, muffins, fruit, or pastries. Coffeehouses range from owner-operated small businesses to large multinational corporations. Some coffeehouse chains operate on a franchise business model, with numerous branches across various countries around the world. While ''café'' may refer to a coffeehouse, the term "café" generally refers to a diner, British café (colloquially called a "caff"), "greasy spoon" (a small and inexpensive restaurant), transport café, teahouse or tea room, or other casual eating and drinking place. A coffeehouse may share some of the same characteristics of a bar or restaurant, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monkland Tavern
Monkland may refer to: *Monkland, Herefordshire, a small village in Herefordshire, England *Monkland, Ontario, Canada, a hamlet in North Stormont *Monkland, Oregon, an unincorporated community in Sherman County, Oregon, United States * Monkland, Queensland, a suburb of Gympie, Queensland, Australia *Monkland Village, a neighbourhood in the Montreal borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce See also *103 Monkland, a bus route in Montreal, Quebec, Canada *Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway, an early mineral railway running from a colliery at Monklands to the Forth and Clyde Canal at Kirkintilloch, Scotland *Monkland Avenue (other) * Monkland Canal unnavigable, partly culverted *Monkland Priory, a priory in Monkland, Herefordshire, England *Monkland Railways, formed by the merger of the Ballochney Railway, the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway and the Slamannan Railway *Monklands (other) Monklands was an ancient parish in the Scottish county of Lanarkshire. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa Maria (school)
Villa Maria is a subsidized private Catholic co-educational high school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1854 and offers both a francophone and an anglophone stream. There are roughly 950 students in the French sector and 800 students in the English sector with an average class size of 34 students. Current tuition as of the 2021–2022 school year is $4,500 with $1,900 in extra mandatory fees. Formerly a girls' school, it was open, beginning August 2016, to boys in the seventh grade. Between 2016 and 2020, the integration of boys was gradual, with current girls-only classes staying girls-only. This change was speculated to be a means of boosting enrolment, due to decreased numbers of eligible students entering the anglophone stream. The central part of the Villa Maria school is known as the Monklands Mansion and was the home of the Governor General of Canada from 1844 to 1849. It is a National Historic Site of Canada. Monklands In 1795, James Monk, Chief Jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General Of Canada
The governor general of Canada (french: gouverneure générale du Canada) is the federal viceregal representative of the . The is head of state of Canada and the 14 other Commonwealth realms, but resides in oldest and most populous realm, the United Kingdom. The , on the advice of Canadian prime minister, appoints a governor general to carry on the Government of Canada in the 's name, performing most of constitutional and ceremonial duties. The commission is for an indefinite period—known as serving ''at Majesty's pleasure''—though five years is the usual length of time. Since 1959, it has also been traditional to alternate between francophone and anglophone officeholders—although many recent governors general have been bilingual. The office began in the 17th century, when the French crown appointed governors of the colony of Canada. Following the British conquest of the colony, the British monarch appointed governors of the Province of Quebec (later the Canadas) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Court Of King's Bench Of Quebec
A court is any person or institution, often as a government institution, with the authority to adjudicate legal disputes between parties and carry out the administration of justice in civil, criminal, and administrative matters in accordance with the rule of law. In both common law and civil law legal systems, courts are the central means for dispute resolution, and it is generally understood that all people have an ability to bring their claims before a court. Similarly, the rights of those accused of a crime include the right to present a defense before a court. The system of courts that interprets and applies the law is collectively known as the judiciary. The place where a court sits is known as a venue. The room where court proceedings occur is known as a courtroom, and the building as a courthouse; court facilities range from simple and very small facilities in rural communities to large complex facilities in urban communities. The practical authority given to the co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lower Canada
The Province of Lower Canada (french: province du Bas-Canada) was a British colony on the lower Saint Lawrence River and the shores of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence (1791–1841). It covered the southern portion of the current Province of Quebec and the Labrador region of the current Province of Newfoundland and Labrador (until the Labrador region was transferred to Newfoundland in 1809). Lower Canada consisted of part of the former colony of Canada of New France, conquered by Great Britain in the Seven Years' War ending in 1763 (also called the French and Indian War in the United States). Other parts of New France conquered by Britain became the Colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island. The Province of Lower Canada was created by the ''Constitutional Act 1791'' from the partition of the British colony of the Province of Quebec (1763–1791) into the Province of Lower Canada and the Province of Upper Canada. The prefix "lower" in its name refers to its geog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Villa-Maria (Montreal Metro)
Villa-Maria is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line. It is located in the Westmount Adjacent area of the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood, beside the Décarie Expressway trench. Overview The station is a normal side platform station, and has an entrance at its south end. The entrance is located in a bus loop located on the Décarie Autoroute. Station improvements In 2019, work began to make the station fully accessible at a cost of $24.6m. The work included the installation of three elevators, station renovation works and the installation of new artwork. The project was completed in November 2022, making Villa-Maria the 23rd accessible station in the Metro. Architecture and artwork The station was designed by André Léonard. The architect also designed mural sculptures for the station - comprising large m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
