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"Toronto the Good" [176] from its history as a bastion of 19th century Victorian morality and coined by mayor William Holmes Howland. [176] [177] An 1898 book by C.S. Clark was titled Of Toronto the Good. A Social Study. [178] The Queen City of Canada As It Is. The book is a facsimile of an 1898 edition.
The Plateau. Typical residential street in Plateau-Mont-Royal, June 2005. 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 and Sherbrooke Street. The granite-paved, pedestrian-only Prince Arthur ...
Irish Quebecers ( French: Irlando-Québécois, Irish: Éireannaigh as Québec) are residents of the Canadian province of Quebec who have Irish ancestry. In 2016, there were 446,215 Quebecers who identified themselves as having partial or exclusive Irish descent in Quebec, representing 5.46% of the population.
They often include forms such as -town, -ton, -ville, -borough, -bury, bridge, mill, castle, abbey, church, etc. However, forms such as hill, mount, mont, wood, bay, brook etc. are not uncommon. Some placenames that seem to come from English are in fact anglicized Irish names modified by folk etymology.
[79] [80] The Montreal Canadiens' Bell Centre and Toronto Maple Leafs' Scotiabank Arena hosted the "Duel at the Top" and "Battle on Bay Street" rivalry matches between Montreal and Toronto, [28] [81] while one-off matches at other NHL venues—Little Caesars Arena in Detroit; [82] PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh; [83] and the Prudential Center ...
Griffintown is a historic neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, southwest of downtown. The area existed as a functional neighbourhood from the 1820s until the 1960s and was mainly populated by Irish immigrants and their descendants. Mostly depopulated since then, the neighbourhood has been undergoing redevelopment since the early 2010s.
Also known as "full Irish", "Irish fry" or "Ulster fry". Bricfeasta friochta. Rashers, sausages and eggs, often served with a variety of side dishes such as fried mushrooms, soda bread and puddings. Garlic cheese chips. Sceallóga le cáis agus gairleog [ 4] Chips with garlic mayonnaise and melted cheddar cheese . Goody.
1792 – Opening of the first post office in Montreal on 20 December. 1793 – Importation of slaves into Canada is prohibited on July 9. 1799 – Mary Griffin obtains the lease to Griffintown from a business associate of Thomas McCord. 1799 – The census of 1799 lists 9,000 inhabitants while that of 1761 lists 5,500.