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Faubourg à m'lasse
Le Faubourg à m'lasse was a neighborhood in Montreal until 1963. The neighborhood was bordered by Dorchester (now René-Lévesque) Boulevard to the North, Wolfe Street to the West, Viger Avenue to the South, and Papineau Avenue to the East.
==Etymology==
The neighborhood was originally named "Faubourg Québec" (English: "Quebec suburb") because it is located along the route to the city of Québec. In the neighborhood's later life, it received the nickname it is most commonly associated with today, Le Faubourg à m'lasse. The neighborhood most likely received its nickname from the sweet smell that came from massive metal barrels containing molasses located near the Molson Brewery and Canadian Rubber plant.〔Arthur Gladu, Tel que j’étais: récit autobiographique (Montréal: L’Hexagone, 1988), 12〕
There are many myths and legends attributed to the neighborhood's nickname and people such as Jason Cundy acknowledge that some of them are quite implausible but are re-told because those were the tales they grew up believing. One of the legends states that in the warmer months, when the port saw shipments from far and exotic places, women would anticipate the shipments of molasses. When they knew of an upcoming shipment, they would go to the docks and bring a small container with them. Apparently, there was this unspoken understanding between a particular crane operator at the time and the women. The crane operator would "accidentally" drop the last barrel of molasses and the women would quickly fill their containers with the fallen substance.〔“Le Faubourg à M’lasse: Les Origines D’une Légende Urbaine - Spacing Montreal,” Spacing Montreal, accessed January 22, 2014, http://spacing.ca/montreal/2009/07/26/le-faubourg-a-mlasse-les-origines-dune-legende-urbaine/〕
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