Griffintown & Pointe-St-Charles

Former Irish Community southwest of downtown Montreal.

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Education

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• Griffintown
• Pointe-St-Charles
• Montreal
• History
• Irish

[Mcleodste]

Love this Thank you

[therealggp]

i wouldnt really call them working class neighborhoods lol. not these days at least

[ifredo]

Thank you so very much for this awesome and informstive video!  Je suis Français et un amoureux de l'histoire et de ces magnifiques quartiers du Sud-ouest qui ont été la locomotive du Canada et de sa révolution industrielle.

Thanks to you again for this nice video and to show the historical and proudness of the Irish community that help make what's Montréal is all about!

Salut!

[MegaRiktane]

I feel for all your losses,,I grew up in the Pointe as an imagrant from Ottawa ,,But was Placed at Shawbridge where I learned a trade which I still ply 32 years later as a truck techician and love it in a dealership,,,,,,I do miss the Pointe

[eddienash1000]

My family lived in Griffintown for generations. I grew up in Pointe Ste. Charles. I moved out west years ago and was really disappointed to see what happened to The Point. It used to be a tight knot working class community now it's filled with crime and junkies. It's horrible what happened to these places.

[aingiltite]

I'm Irish, just moved to Canada and Montreal 3 months ago and this video is very interesting. I will have to go down to Pointe St Charles and see it for myself.

Míle buíochas!

[rebelksc]

This video is awesome considering that it is made completely of still photos. Remember the opposite of wealth isn't poverty, it's JUSTICE. That's why the rich got away with destroying a poor n'hood...we will never get justice will we?

[moondancer33]

feels good to hear of the history of where my mum grew up. she used to live on ash if im not mistaken, and made friends with alot of crazy guys. wish i had got to meet them, they sounded pretty cool. the point was the kinda place where you didn't talk shit about people, and showed respect to the people you passed, or ya got your ass kicked. parents and grandparents lived there, and ive made lots of good friends there. seriously man, many thanks for putting this up.

[kemptonjones]

Black Rock at the foot of Victoria Bridge -- one of my fondest memories of Montreal -- je me souviens!

[goosevillage1963]

@acerb45666555

St. Ann's was demolished because the neighbourhoods that provided its parishoners were demolished. I went to St. Ann's as a kid, and had my first communion there. My family lived in Goose Village, and my grandmother lived her entire life there. (She died about a year and a half before it was bulldozed.) I lived less than 50 yards from the Black Rock, on Forfar Street, as did my aunts, uncles and cousins.