Name | Odonym | Namesake |
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Angrignon | Boul. Angrignon; Parc Angrignon | J.B. Arthur Angrignon, city councillor |
Monk | Boul. Monk | James Monk, QC attorney-general |
Jolicoeur | Rue Jolicoeur | J-Moïse Jolicoeur, parish priest |
Verdun | Rue de Verdun; borough of Verdun | Notre-Dame-de-Saverdun, France, hometown of seigneur Zacharie Dupuis |
De L'Église | Av. de l'Église | Église Saint-Paul |
LaSalle | Boul. LaSalle | Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer |
Charlevoix | Rue Charlevoix | F.-X. de Charlevoix, French historian and explorer |
Lionel-Groulx | Av. Lionel-Groulx | Fr. Lionel Groulx, QC historian |
Atwater | Av. Atwater | Edwin Atwater, city councillor |
Guy-Concordia (formerly Guy) | Rue Guy | Étienne Guy, landowner |
Concordia University | Concordia salus (prosperity through concord), motto of Mtl | |
Peel | Rue Peel | Robert Peel, British PM |
McGill | Av. McGill College; McGill University | James McGill, Scottish-Cdn. businessman |
Place-des-Arts | Place des Arts cultural complex | |
Saint-Laurent | Boul. Saint-Laurent | Saint Lawrence or Saint Lawrence River |
Berri-UQAM (formerly Berri-de Montigny) | Rue Berri | Name given by Migeon de Branssat in 1669; deriv. unknown |
Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
Rue de Montigny | Testard de Montigny family | |
Beaudry | Rue Beaudry | Pierre Beaudry, landowner |
Papineau | Av. Papineau | Joseph Papineau, QC politician (father of L.-J. Papineau) |
Frontenac | Rue Frontenac | Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Gov-Gen of New France |
Préfontaine | Rue Préfontaine; Parc Raymond-Préfontaine | Raymond-Fournier Préfontaine, mayor of Mtl |
Joliette | Rue Joliette | Barthélemy Joliette, founder of Joliette, Quebec |
Pie-IX | Boul. Pie-IX | Pope Pius IX |
Viau | Rue Viau | Charles-Théodore Viau, QC cookie magnate |
Assomption | Boul. de l'Assomption | Dogma of the Assumption of Mary |
Cadillac | Rue de Cadillac | Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer |
Langelier | Boul. Langelier | François-Charles-Stanislas Langelier, mayor of QC City and Lt-Gov of Quebec |
Radisson | Rue Radisson | Pierre-Esprit Radisson, French explorer |
Honoré-Beaugrand | Rue Honoré-Beaugrand | Honoré Beaugrand, QC author and mayor of Mtl |
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Côte-Vertu | Ch. de la Côte-Vertu | Notre-Dame-de-la-Vertu (Our Lady of Virtue), 18th c. name for the area |
Du Collège | Rue du Collège | Collège Saint-Laurent, local cégep |
De La Savane | Rue de la Savane | savane - a savanna or (QC French) swamp |
Namur | Rue Namur | Namur, Belgium |
Plamondon | Av. Plamondon | Antoine Plamondon, QC painter, or Rodolphe Plamondon, QC lyric artist |
Côte-Sainte-Catherine | Ch. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine | Côte Sainte-Catherine, 18th c. name for area of Outremont |
Snowdon | Rue Snowdon; Snowdon neighbourhood | name of landowner |
Villa-Maria | Villa-Maria High School | Latin form of Ville-Marie, former name of Mtl |
Vendôme | Av. de Vendôme | likely from the French Dukes of Vendôme
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Place-Saint-Henri | Pl. Saint-Henri | a parish church named for Saint Henry II, to commemorate Fr. Henri-Auguste Roux
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Lionel-Groulx | Av. Lionel-Groulx | Fr. Lionel Groulx, QC historian |
Georges-Vanier | Boul. Georges-Vanier | Georges Vanier, Gov.-Gen. of Canada |
Lucien-L'Allier | Rue Lucien-L'Allier | Lucien L'Allier, QC engineer, designer of the metro |
Bonaventure | Place Bonaventure building | Gare Bonaventure, in turn for former Rue Bonaventure; St. Bonaventure, Italian cleric |
Square-Victoria | Sq. Victoria | Queen Victoria |
Place-d'Armes | Pl. d'Armes | rallying point for city's defenders |
Champ-de-Mars | Champ de Mars park | common term for military exercise ground (Mars, god of war) |
Berri-UQAM (formerly Berri-de Montigny) | Rue Berri | Name given by Migeon de Branssat in 1669; deriv. unknown |
Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
Rue de Montigny | Testard de Montigny family | |
Sherbrooke | Rue Sherbrooke | John Coape Sherbooke, Gov.-Gen. of British North America |
Mont-Royal | Av. du Mont-Royal | Mount Royal |
Laurier | Av. Laurier | Wilfrid Laurier, PM of Canada |
Rosemont | Boul. Rosemont; Rosemont neighbourhood | Named by developer U.-H. Dandurand for his mother, née Rose Phillips |
Beaubien | Rue Beaubien | Prominent landowning family |
Jean-Talon | Rue Jean-Talon | Jean Talon, intendant of New France |
Jarry | Rue Jarry | Stanislas Blénier dit Jarry père, landowner |
Crémazie | Boul. Crémazie | Octave Crémazie, QC poet |
Sauvé | Rue Sauvé | Name of a landowner |
Henri-Bourassa | Boul. Henri-Bourassa | Henri Bourassa, QC journalist and politician |
Cartier | Boul. Cartier | Sir George-Étienne Cartier QC politician, Father of Confederation |
De La Concorde | Boul. de la Concorde | Place de la Concorde in Paris |
Montmorency | Collège Montmorency | François de Montmorency-Laval, first Bishop of QC and landowner of Île Jésus (Laval) |
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Berri-UQAM (formerly Berri-de Montigny) | Rue Berri | Name given by Migeon de Branssat in 1669; deriv. unknown |
Université du Québec à Montréal | ||
Rue de Montigny | Testard de Montigny family | |
Jean-Drapeau (formerly Île-Sainte-Hélène | Parc Jean-Drapeau | Jean Drapeau, mayor of Mtl |
Île Sainte-Hélène | named by Samuel de Champlain for his wife, née Hélène Boullé | |
Longueuil–Université-de-Sherbrooke (formerly Longueuil) | City of Longueuil | probably for a town in Normandy |
University of Sherbrooke, Longueuil campus, in Édifice Saint-Charles | ||
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Snowdon | Rue Snowdon; Snowdon neighbourhood | name of landowner |
Côte-des-Neiges | Ch. de la Côte-des-Neiges | former Village of Côte-des-Neiges; name Notre-Dame-des-Neiges (Our Lady of the Snows) dates to 18th c. |
Université-de-Montréal | University of Montreal | |
Édouard-Montpetit | Boul. Édouard-Montpetit | Édouard Montpetit, U de M professor |
Outremont | Av. Outremont; borough of Outremont | named for a prominent estate (Outremont = "other side of the mountain") |
Acadie | Boul. de l'Acadie | commemorates bicentennial of the expulsion of the Acadians |
Parc | Av. du Parc | Mount Royal Park |
De Castelnau | Ch. de la Côte-des-Neiges | Édouard de Castelnau, French soldier |
Jean-Talon | Rue Jean-Talon | Jean Talon, intendant of New France |
Fabre | Rue Fabre | Édouard-Charles Fabre, first archbishop of Mtl |
D'Iberville | Rue d'Iberville | Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, QC explorer, founder of Louisiana |
Saint-Michel | Boul. Saint-Michel; neighbourhood of Saint-Michel | Saint Michael; long-standing name |