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Griffintown
Griffintown is the name given to the former southwestern downtown part of Montreal, Quebec, which existed from the 1820s until the 1960s and was mainly populated by Irish immigrants and their descendants.
One can identify Griffintown as the portion of the ward of St. Ann located north of the Lachine Canal; the part south of the canal is now part of Pointe-Saint-Charles. This part of the ward was delimited by Notre-Dame Street to the North, the Bonaventure Expressway to the east, and a short segment of the city limit between Notre-Dame Street and the canal west of the St. Gabriel Locks to the west.〔Pinsoneault, Adolphe Rodrigue. ''Atlas of the island and city of Montreal and Ile Bizard : a compilation of the most recent cadastral plans from the book of reference.'' Atlas Publishing Co. Ltd: 1907. Pp. 22. (Available online ) from Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec. Accessed July 5, 2011.〕 It was the earliest and largest faubourg annexed to Old Montreal before the introduction of the tram car in the 1840s.
==Etymology==
The name ''Griffintown'' was derived from Mary Griffin. Griffin illegally obtained the lease to the land from a business associate of Thomas McCord in 1799. She then commissioned land surveyor Louis Charland to subdivide the land and plan streets for the area in 1804. Griffin's husband, Robert, owned a soap manufactory in the area and went on to become the first clerk of the Bank of Montreal upon its formation in 1817.〔
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