History of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Formerly, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) parish covered a territory very vast starting near Atwater Street going up to the town of Lachine. For a while, NDG like many Montréal’s boroughs was a place of agriculture. Among many thing cultivated there where apples which were exported up to England. Melon was also cultivated on the Décarie farm.
About the years 1900 the first line of tram appears in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a line starting at Mount-royal Street, circumvents the mountain and ending in the Snowdon station was now transporting people elseware in Montreal Island . Slowly but surly the village was evolving around NDG church which was a master church for about seven parish of the west Island. About 1920 NDG received more English-speaking resident starting point of the construction of many schools and churches. The most significant change for NDG came in 1966 – 1967 with the construction of Decarie express way which literally split the borough by digging a huge scar in NDG Urban grid.
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce today
Today, NDG is a very vast borough with many contrasts because of its size ( NDG is now part of the district Côte-des-Neiges Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.)
With the rebirth of the Monkland street also named “the Village”, the district saw a good economic boom, especially with the revalorization of its commercial main streets such as Sherbrooke and Queen Mary. Borough NDG is now part of arrondissement Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
145 Pictures of NDG, Montréal.
