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Little Burgundy is the informal name of a neighbourhood in the Southwest borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, known in French as La Petite-Bourgogne.
The neighborhood was founded as Sainte-Cunegonde, an independent town from the city of Montreal proper. Its approximate boundaries are Atwater Avenue to the west, Saint-Antoine to the north, Peel to the east, and the Lachine Canal to the south. During the Industrial Revolution it was the site of many so-called "smokestack" industries, most notably the Canadian Pacific Railway yards, and the Steel Company Of Canada (or Stelco) plant, among others. Sainte-Cunegonde was absorbed into the larger city near the turn of the 20th century; the former town hall is now a public library and community centre, located on Vinet Street.
As one of the most important sites for the nascent trans-Canadian railway industry, a great many African-American workers were brought in from the United States. Later Caribbean blacks were also brought in, leading to Little Burgundy's unique niche as the home of Montreal's working-class English-speaking black community. New Page 1<!-- Bot generated title -->
The neighbourhood is famous as a centre of black culture, having produced several talented jazz musicians. During Prohibition and the later pre-Jean Drapeau years as an 'open city,' Little Burgundy was home to many lively nightclubs featuring homegrown and international performers; one of the most famous was Rockhead's Paradise, owned by Rufus Rockhead, after whom a street is named. Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones are the two best-known musicians who emerged from the bebop and post-bop era. Canada's first black Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, also spent part of her childhood in the area.
Today, the neighborhood has endured several phases of gentrification, partly stemming from the construction of townhouses over the former railway yards through the 1980s, and then the 2002 reopening of the Lachine Canal to boat traffic, the revitalization of the Atwater Market, and towards its eastern boundary, the continued expansion of UQAM's Ecole de Technologie Supérieure. Little Burgundy is home to the North American arm of Ninja Tune records, many architecture and design offices, new restaurants, as well a longstanding antiques row along Notre-Dame Ouest, formally organized as the Quartier des Antiquaires.
This neighbourhood is served by the Georges-Vanier station on the Montreal Metro. Many young teens from the area attend Polyvalente St-Henri which is located in the adjacent neighborhood of St-Henri.
Saint-Henri is a neighbourhood in southwestern Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest.
Saint-Henri is usually considered to be bounded to the east by av. Atwater, to the west by Autoroute 15, to the north by Autoroute 20, and to the south by the Lachine Canal.
Saint-Henri is well known as a historically French-Canadian, Irish and black working class neighbourhood, though in recent years it has been strongly affected by gentrification. Often contrasted with wealthy Westmount looking down over the Falaise Saint-Jacques, its working-class character was most memorably recorded by Gabrielle Roy in her novel The Tin Flute (Bonheur d'occasion).
The area, historically known as Les Tanneries because of the artisans shops where leather tanning took place, was named for St. Henry via the Église Saint-Henri, which at one time formed Place Saint-Henri along with the community's fire and police station. Nearby, the bustle of a passenger rail station was immortalized in the song "Place St. Henri."
Église Saint-Henri was so named to commemorate Fr. Henri-Auguste Roux (1798-1831), the superior of Saint-Sulpice Seminary. The municipality of Saint-Henri was formed in 1875, joining the village of Saint-Henri and the surrounding settlements of Turcot, Brodie, Saint-Agustin and Sainte-Marguerite into one administrative unit<ref name="digital.library.mcgill.ca">Industrial Architecture of Montreal: Saint-Henri<!-- Bot generated title --></ref>. The municipality was incorporated into the City of Montreal in 1905<ref name="digital.library.mcgill.ca"/>.
Well-known people from Saint-Henri include strongman Louis Cyr, who served as a police officer there; the Place-des- Hommes-Forts and the Parc Louis-Cyr are named for him, as is the municipal electoral district comprising the neighborhood. Celebrated jazz pianist Oscar Peterson grew up in Little Burgundy which is the neighborhood adjacent to Saint-Henri. Stand-up comedian Yvon Deschamps has treated the daily struggle of Saint-Henri's citizens with humorous melancholy.
Saint Henri and Little Burgundy are considered to have a fairly common social makeup. Historically, Saint-Henri was occupied predominantly by European blue collar workers while Little Burgundy was occupied primarily by African-Canadians who worked on the railroads. Today, a multi-ethnic collage of people of varied social classes live in both neighbourhoods, especially in the recent housing developments that have sprouted along the Lachine Canal. A great number of teenagers from neighboring districts attend Polyvalente Saint-Henri and James Lyng High School.
The neighbourhood is served by the Lionel-Groulx and Place-Saint-Henri metro stations.
The Plateau or Plateau Mont-Royal is a part of the city of Montreal, just north of downtown and east of Mount Royal. Part of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, the Plateau is one of the most densely populated neighbourhoods in Canada, with nearly 100,000 people living in a 7.75 square kilometre area.
The Plateau was formerly a working-class neighbourhood, with the Eastern part being largely French-Canadian, and the Western part largely Jewish. The neighbourhood was the childhood home of Quebec writers Michel Tremblay and Mordecai Richler and both have set many stories in the Plateau of the 1950s and 60s.
The Plateau is characterized by brightly-coloured houses, cafés, book shops, and a laissez-faire attitude. The combination of different immigrant societies--notably many Portuguese and Spanish-speakers--adds to the feeling of tolerance and creates a unique atmosphere.
In the 1980s, the area's bohemian aura and proximity to McGill University attracted gentrification. Rents increased, and many of its traditional residents were dispersed to other parts of the city. It now is home to many upscale restaurants and nightclubs. In 1997, Utne Reader judged it one of the 15 "hippest" neighbourhoods in North America.
It is also the location of some famous attractions on Saint Lawrence Boulevard, including Schwartz's Deli (famous for its smoked meat sandwiches), and a weekend street fair during the summer that sees extremely crowded streets.
The neighbourhood continues to gentrify. A historic local grocer, Warshaw, has recently been replaced by a Pharmaprix, and any number of trendy clothing stores have their place along this strip of St-Laurent and St-Denis.
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The McGill Ghetto (also known as Milton Park or officially, Milton-Parc, after the neighbourhood's two main streets, Milton and Park) is a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, named after McGill University, situated directly to the east of the university campus. The Ghetto is located in the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough of Montreal. Many McGill students live in this area, which is characterized by a mix of rowhouses and low- to mid-rise apartment buildings. The area is roughly bordered by rue University and the university campus to the west, rue Sherbrooke to the south, avenue des Pins to the north, and avenue du Parc to the east, though McGill University considers this area to extend as far east as Saint Laurent Boulevard.
The neighbourhood has many historic townhouses built in the late 1800s, which housed affluent businessmen and their families. The area remained a wealthy enclave throughout the early half of the 20th century. Eventually, many of the affluent residents of the area moved to other boroughs such as Westmount or to the suburbs.
In the 1970s, community activists were concerned that the vast La Cité mixed-use complex (consisting of apartments, offices, a mall, and a hotel - now McGill's New Residence) would destroy the neighbourhood's character. McGill University recently acquired the hotel component and transformed it into an undergraduate student residence called New Residence Hall, which increased the student population in the Ghetto by 650 people.
While the space is colloquially known as the "Ghetto", the name for the area is used with the original definition of the word "ghetto": a socioeconomically homogeneous area. It is well-kept and quite safe. In recent years, more students have begun to move out of the Ghetto because of rising rent prices, with fewer moving in for the same reason."In the Ghetto", "McGill Reporter", September 9, 1999. Accessed June 5, 2008.
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Areas and locations where Orthodox Jews live in significant communities. These are areas that have within them an Orthodox Jewish community in which there is a sizable and cohesive population, which has its own community organizations, businesses, day schools, yeshivas and/or synagogues that serve the members of the local Orthodox community and may at times be the majority of the population.
Old Montreal (or Vieux-Montréal in French) is the oldest area in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, dating back to New France.
Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the area is usually thought of as being bounded to the west by McGill St., to the north by Saint Antoine St., to the east by Berri St., and to the south by the Saint Lawrence River.
thumb|left|Old Port in autumn, [[Bonsecours Market at rear.]] Stretching for over two kilometres along the St-Lawrence River in Old Montreal, the Old Port Of Montreal has been the social, economic and cultural soul of Montreal ever since early French fur traders used it as a trading post in 1611. It was here that the city and the port came to life more than 350 years ago.
The redevelopment of the city's Old Port took place in the early 90s, under the direction of architects Aurèle Cardinal and Peter Rose..
Today, the riverfront welcomes over seven million visitors per year. The historical Old Port offers Montrealers and visitors alike access to a wide variety of activities, including the Montréal Science Centre, with an IMAX Theatre, and the Montreal Clock Tower. It offers riverfront access for walking, cycling, roller-blading, quadricycle, pedalo and Segway rentals. It is also located at the eastern end of the Lachine Canal, which has itself been extensively refurbished as a popular destination for cycling, roller-blading and pleasure boating.
The Old Port of Montreal changed its name to The Quays of the Old Port of Montreal in 2005. Every 2 years the Cirque de Soleil launches a new show from the Jacques Cartier Quay.
Shipping has been moved further east to the present Port of Montreal site, leaving the riverside area of Old Port adjacent to Old Montreal as a recreational and historical area.
Sights and features of the Old Montreal neighborhood in Montreal, Canada
Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension is a borough (arrondissement) in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It has a population of 145,485 (2001) and an area of 16,05 km².
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Place Jacques-Cartier is a square located in Old Montreal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and an entrance to the Old Port of Montreal.
The street is named for Jacques Cartier, a French explorer popularly thought of as one of the major discoverers of Canada. The broad, divided street slopes steeply downhill from Montreal City Hall and rue Notre-Dame to the waterfront and rue de la Commune. During the high tourist season, the street hosts many street artists and kiosks. During the Christmas season, the street is lined with lighted trees. At any time of year, one can find restaurants on both sides of the street and many more on the surrounding streets of Vieux Port, notably on Rue Saint-Paul.
It is a car-free zone in the summer.Spacing Montreal. During the high season, Jardin Nelson is a popular garden restaurant on Place Jacques-Cartier. Other restaurants offer classical Parisian "terrace" dining.
Near Place Jacques-Cartier on rue de la Commune, an original piece of the wall of the old fortified city can still be seen in the basement restaurant of the Auberge du Vieux-Port. At the upper end of the Place stands what may be the most controversial monument in all of Montreal: The Nelson Column, installed in memory of Admiral Horatio Nelson. Dating from 1808, it was erected by the English merchants of the city. The 8-foot statue is the world's first Nelson commemorative and predates that in London by 33 years. The statue was removed in 1997 to preserve it from the weather, and was subsequently replaced with a copy.
Goose Village was a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its official but less commonly used name was Victoriatown, after the adjacent Victoria Bridge. The neighbourhood was built on an area formerly known as Windmill Point, where thousands of Irish immigrants died from disease in 1847-1848.
Villeray is a neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough and is situated in the north-central part of the Island of Montreal.
This is the list of the neighbourhoods (or districts) in the city of Montreal. They are sorted by the borough they are located in. They were created for electoral purposes and are based on historical boundaries of neighborhoods and former towns or cities.
Park Extension (Parc-Extension in French) is a neighbourhood in the city of Montreal, Quebec. It is located in the borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension and has a population of 35,000 and an area of 1,6 km². The name derives from the fact that it is situated at the north end of Parc Avenue and is literally an "extension" of the artery. The area is known by locals as "Park X."
Griffintown is the popular 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. It is believed to have been vaguely defined by Notre-Dame street to the North, McGill and Guy streets to the East and the West respectively, and the Lachine Canal to the South, making Griffintown the earliest and largest faubourg ever annexed to Old Montreal (and its outskirts) before the introduction of the tram car in the 1840s.
Saint-Michel is a neighborhood in the Montreal borough of Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension. Its boundaries corresponds to the former city of Ville Saint Michel, which was annexed to Montreal in 1968. This former independent city was known as Saint-Michel-de-Laval from its inception in 1912 to 1914 and Ville Saint Michel from 1914 to 1968. This was one of the last cities to be merged into Montreal until the 2002 municipal reorganization. Saint-Michel is the home of Le Boulevard shopping centre and also is home to the headquarters of the world renowned Cirque Du Soleil as well as the Tohu, la Cité des Arts du Cirque and the Complexe environmental Saint-Michel. The former Miron and Francon quarries are also located here. Autoroute 40 runs through the area.
The 1990s saw Saint-Michel's reputation tarnished by its severe street gang problems and the negative coverage and propaganda surrounding this delicate situation. In consequence, Saint-Michel has been long viewed as one of Montreal's most dangerous inner city neighbourhoods. Although these problems persist to this day, the phenomenon seems better controlled and has to an extent been relocalised in adjacent neighbourhoods. As a whole, Saint-Michel is a culturally deversified area with roots spanning all generations and ethnic backgrounds.
Saint-Michel is one of the most ethnically diversed areas in Montreal and in the province of Québec. Italians, Haitians, Arabs, Asians, Hispanics as well as people of French canadian decent (Québecois) represent the major ethnic groups of this inner city area. French remains the first language spoken at home, by 51% of the population. But, most people have a working knowledge of both of Canada's main languages. The area is also home to many University students because of the relatively low rent and cheap housing and its proximity to the University of Montreal.
The presence of The Cirque Du Soleil since the late 1990s (along with recent real estate development) has begun to change the public perception of the area. Several condominiums projects are currently in the works and signs of urban renewal are clearly evident. The neighbourhood has a dense conglomerate of residential architecture unique to Montreal, notably row houses featuring outdoor spiralling metal staircases (mostly present in the Villeray part of the borough, but also present in Saint-Michel.).
Saint-Michel is mainly served by the blue line of the Montreal Metro, although some metro stations from the green and orange lines do have buses that pass through the neighbourhood. Metro stations that are physically located within the neighborhood are D'Iberville station (only one entrance, the other entrance being in nearby Villeray) and the whole Saint-Michel station.
Two municipal electoral districts (François-Perreault and Saint-Michel) are in the neighborhood. The Saint-Michel civic district is currently held by Soraya Martinez of Vision Montreal party. François-Perreault district is currently held by Frank Venneri of Union Montreal. Justin Trudeau, son of former Canadian prime minister Pierre-Eliott Trudeau, is the liberal incubent, in this part of montreal. Trudeau defeated incumbent Bloc Québécois MP Vivian Barbot.
Montreal's Greektown is a proposed name for a neighbourhood located on Park Avenue, Montreal between Mount Royal Avenue and Van Horne Avenue. Montreal Gazette:City to name Park a Greek village Historically Greek influence has been very strong in this area along with the adjoining Park Extension neighbourhood. There are over 61,000 Montrealers of Greek descent.Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census<!-- Bot generated title -->
Montreal's Greektown was "party central" when Greece won the 2004 UEFA European Football Championship.URBANPHOTO: Cities / People / Place » Rebranding Park Avenue<!-- Bot generated title -->
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Tétreaultville (officially named Mercier-Est) is a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec.
Sault-au-Récollet (Recollet Falls, in English) is a neighbourhood in the Ahuntsic-Cartierville borough, in the city of Montreal. It is located at the eastern edge of the borough. Autoroute 19 connects the district to the city of Laval.
Mile End is a neighbourhood and municipal electoral district in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Mile End is part of the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough in terms of Montreal's municipal politics. Local residents make a clear distinction between Mile End, a highly multicultural area of the city, and the central and eastern parts of the Plateau borough, which have primarily Francophone populations.
Outremont is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It consists entirely of the former city on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. The neighbourhood has been traditionally inhabited largely by Francophones, but is now also home to a large number of Hasidic Jews.
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Montreal has a modest Portuguese population. Its historical population in Montreal is located in Little Portugal, which is at the corner of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Marie-Anne street. Portuguese businesses can be found along several blocks of Saint Laurent between Pine and Marie-Anne. The Portuguese area has largely absorbed what used to be the traditional Jewish neighbourhood. There are over 46,000 Montrealers of Portuguese descent.Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census<!-- Bot generated title -->
The Ottawa Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was built in 1845 and an example of early attempt of building skyscrapers of the late 19th Century. It was built at 50 St. James Street by George Hall. He had owned a previous hotel by the same name located at the corner of McGill and St. Maurice Streets which he had owned from at least 1842. The Lovell's City Directory of 1842/23 runs an ad on page 215 which states: "Ottawa Hotel by George Hall corner McGill and St. Maurice Streets."
In 1845, George Hall built his new hotel which he also called the Ottawa Hotel at 50 Great St. James Street. The Lovell's City Directories of 1844/45 through to 1850 lists the two Ottawa Hotels as: Ottawa Hotel (old,) (F.P. Levine,) McGill Street and Ottawa Hotel (new,) (George Hall,) 50 Great St. James Street.
The 1850 Lovell's listing also has an ad on page 310 which states:
The Lovell's Directories after 1852 list only the one Ottawa Hotel being the one on Great St. James Street. (Great St. James Street ran from Place d'Armes west to McGill Street while Little St. James Street ran east from Place d'Armes to St. Gabriel Street) The 1852 Lovell's listing also has a full page ad on page 305 which states:
Different ads run in the Lovell's Directories between 1855/56 and 1857/58 also add that:
The Ottawa Hotel continued in operation until about 1881/82 after which it was converted into stores and offices. For example, the Euard & MacDonald Hardware occupied space in the Ottawa Hotel from 1882/83.
The neo-classical hotel is still home to offices and stores today.
Greektown, Toronto, also known as Greektown on the Danforth, or more simply, The Danforth, is a neighbourhood and Business Improvement Area (BIA) of the city of Toronto, in Ontario. It is located on Danforth Avenue, between Chester Avenue and Dewhurst Blvd., in east Toronto. Named after Asa Danforth, an American contractor who designed Queen Street and Kingston Road — other streets in the city — the area is known for its architecture dating back to as early as 1910 , and for its number of Greek restaurants and stores. The area was one of the major settlement areas of early Greek immigrants to Toronto.
In the 1970s and 1980s this region was considered to be the largest Greektown in North America. In 1993 , the BIA Board of Management's lobbying of City Hall paid off, and the BIA was officially renamed "GreekTown on the Danforth". More recently, the area has experienced a wave of gentrification as higher-priced restaurants and bars have moved in, as well as a European-style public square (at Logan Avenue). Greektown on the Danforth boasts one of the highest concentrations of restaurants per kilometre in the world. The neighbourhood is mentioned in the Barenaked Ladies song, The Old Apartment, and by critically-acclaimed author Joseph Assenza in his novel, "The History of John". Several scenes in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding were shot here, mentioned on free walking tours of the neighbourhood.
Some parts of Greektown, Toronto, are still dominated by Canadians of Greek decent] ('''Greek-Canadians'''). Most immigrated from [[Greece to Canada.
The Golden Square Mile was the name of a luxurious neighbourhood at the foot of Mount Royal in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Canada. The Square Mile, as a neighbourhood, is generally understood to have existed between 1875 and 1930, at which point, in the face of economic hardship and an increasingly desperate situation in Depression-era Montreal (along with a dawning automobile era, and a desire for more modern homes), many of the former occupants decamped for Westmount and other areas.
From roughly 1850, wealthier families began to migrate out of Montreal's increasingly congested port and downtown core, to settle in new suburban areas built on land formerly given to farming. Of these new areas, the most prestigious were those along the southern slopes of Mount Royal, along Sherbrooke Street west (then little more than a country road); and around McGill University. This would become the core of the Square Mile.
The St. Lawrence neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada although still part of downtown Toronto, was the actual downtown centre and city hall location during the late 18th and entire 19th century.
The area is bounded by Yonge, Front, and Parliament Streets, and the Canadian National railway embankment. The Esplanade off Yonge St., lined with restaurants, cafés and hotels runs through the middle of the area. In previous times, the area was sometimes referred to as 'St. Lawrence Ward' or more often today as 'St. Lawrence Market', synonymous with the large retail vendor market which is the neighbourhood's focal point. Saint Lawrence (shortened to St. Lawrence) was so named after the patron saint of Canada.
The area was the site of Toronto's earliest non-military European settlements. The first parliament buildings in Upper Canada in 1793 were constructed on the southwest corner of Parliament and Front Street. The buildings have long since gone from the site, but a discovery in 2000 when a quick dig of the property revealed the old parliament building footings, in addition to some pottery from that time. The city and the province now own most of the property, although there is no current preservation or memorial located there.
A Saturday farmers' market began operation in St. Lawrence in 1803. The city of Toronto's first city hall was located on the southwest corner of King St. East & Jarvis St. at the old 'Market' building from 1834 (the year of Toronto's incorporation from the former town of York) to 1844. This building was later burnt down during the great fire of 1849 and replaced with the grandiose St. Lawrence Hall and north section of the market, referred to today as the 'North Market'.
In response to the city's dramatic population growth centred around present day St. Lawrence, a larger city hall, also housing a police station and jail cells opened in 1845 with a 140' facade running along south side of Front Street. City Hall was moved out of the area in 1899 to what is now Old City Hall before moving once again to its current location. The former city hall was converted into and expanded into the market gallery or 'South Market'. The old council chamber is all that remains of the original city hall and is located on the gallery's second floor.
By 1850, Toronto's waterfront and wharves were located along the Esplanade, not its current location below Harbourfront. The Grand Trunk Railway line was constructed serving the many warehouses along the wharves. Commercial activity along Toronto's bustling harbour provided employment and was the primary place of entry to the quickly growing, burgeoning city. The convergence of the railway lines and the wharves must have worked because in 1873 historian Henry Scadding so eloquently wrote in his book Old Toronto of The Esplanade "...It has done for Toronto what the Thames Embankment has done for London..."
However, the rapid deindustrialization of the 1960s and 1970s the area along with the neighbouring Distillery District became used for movie location shoots and rickshaw housing for the homeless, due to the dark, urban and vacant industrial atmosphere that existed at that time.
In the 1970s it was decided by mayor David Crombie to turn the area into a new residential neighbourhood, but one that would not make the same mistakes of the housing projects of earlier decades. The neighbourhood was to be integrated into the city with no clear boundaries. It would contain a mix of commercial and residential as with both subsidized and market oriented housing, mostly rowhouse or low-rise apartments. The neighbourhood was planned by Alan Littlewood and the influence of American urban planner Jane Jacobs played a crucial role. Many of the developments were not completed until well into the 1990s. Since that time, the St. Lawrence neighbourhood has been critically acclaimed as a major success in urban planning. In many ways, it has become the model for the design and planning of new urban communities across North America.
Some of the most interesting architecture in the city can be found in St. Lawrence, one notable landmark is the Flatiron building, known for its distinct narrow, wedge shape where Wellington St. merges with Front. Built in 1892, it was the first of this type of building constructed in North America. If viewed from the east, the wedge can be seen in the foreground with the financial skyscrapers and the CN tower rising in the background.
Beit Shemesh (; officially also spelled Bet Shemesh) is a city in Israel's Jerusalem District, with a population of 72,600 people.<ref name="cbs populations"></ref> The modern day city was founded in 1950, although settlement has been on the site since pre-Biblical periods.
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St Kilda is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Port Phillip. At the 2006 Census, St Kilda had a population of 16,122.
During the Edwardian and Victorian eras, it was favoured by Melbourne's elite, and many palatial mansions were constructed. Shortly after the turn of the 20th century, St Kilda served a similar function for Melburnians as did Coney Island to the residents of New York City and its history draws an interesting parallel.Robert Sands, Conservation Analysis, 1992 Postwar St Kilda became Melbourne's red-light district, with many of the large mansions converted into low-cost rooming houses. During the late 1970s and 1980s the area became home to many of Melbourne's subcultures, including the punk subculture, artists, musicians and LGBT culture groups. While some of these groups still maintain a presence in St Kilda, in recent years the district has become gentrified and pushed many of residents from lower socio-economic groups out of the suburb.
St Kilda is home to many of Melbourne's famous visitor attractions including Luna Park, the Esplanade Hotel, Acland Street and Fitzroy Street. It is the home of many theatres and St Kilda Beach and to many of Melbourne's big events.
