Topic summary
Pine Avenue
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Des Pins Avenue.
History
Pine Avenue was built in the 1800s in industrial Montreal. Travelling East-West, Pine Avenue starts in the east at Saint-Denis Street, and ends in the West at Cote-des-Neiges Road, passing the south side of Mount Royal. The Religious Hospitallers of Saint Joseph relocated the Hotel-Dieu de Montreal on Saint-Urbain Street between 1859 and 1861. In 1864, a private road named rue de l'Hôtel-Dieu was created. Frederick Law Olmsted provided plans for construction of the roads on the south side of Mount Royal in 1875. The following year, in 1876, the city council finalized plans to open three roads, named Elm, Cedar, and Pine. This plan included incorporating the rue de l'Hôtel-Dieu into Pine Avenue.