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23-576: Saint-Henri is bounded to the east by Atwater Avenue , to the west by the town of Montreal West , to the north by Autoroute Ville-Marie (Route 136), and to the south by the Lachine Canal . Saint-Henri is well known as a historically French-Canadian working class neighbourhood. Often contrasted with wealthy Westmount or NDG looking down over the Falaise Saint-Jacques . The area—historically known as Les Tanneries because of

46-512: A crew of sixteen videographers as they followed area residents during one summer's day to make À St-Henri le 26 août , an NFB/ Parabola Films co-production inspired by Aquin's cinéma-vérité classic. Atwater Avenue Atwater Avenue (officially in French : avenue Atwater ) is a major north–south street located in Montreal , Quebec , Canada. It links Doctor Penfield Avenue in

69-495: A living as a sketch artist while continuing to write. Her first novel, Bonheur d'occasion (1945), gave a starkly realistic portrait of the lives of people in Saint-Henri , a working-class neighbourhood of Montreal . The novel caused many Quebeckers to take a hard look at themselves, and is regarded as the novel that helped lay the foundation for Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. The original French version won her

92-607: A police officer there; the Place des Hommes-Forts and the Parc Louis-Cyr are named for him. Celebrated jazz pianist Oscar Peterson grew up in Little Burgundy which is the neighbourhood adjacent to Saint-Henri. Stand-up comedian Yvon Deschamps has described the daily struggle of Saint-Henri's citizens with humorous melancholy. Saint-Henri and Little Burgundy are divided by Atwater Avenue. Historically, Saint-Henri

115-566: A result, there has never been an unabridged version of The Tin Flute published in English. In August 1947, she married Marcel Carbotte, a Saint Boniface doctor, and the couple set off for Europe where Carbotte studied gynecology and Roy spent her time writing. Where Nests the Water Hen , Gabrielle Roy's second novel, is a sensitive and sympathetic tale that captures both the innocence and

138-591: Is located in a converted factory in Saint-Henri, bearing witness to the borough's industrial heritage. Also located in the neighbourhood is Solin Hall, a student residence of McGill University . The former chocolate factory is home to nearly 300 students, and is the University's only off-campus residence. There are two metro stations in Saint-Henri; Lionel-Groulx and Place-Saint-Henri . Église Saint-Henri

161-843: Is now a National Historic Site and museum in Winnipeg. After training as a teacher at The Winnipeg Normal School, she taught in rural schools in Marchand and Cardinal and was then appointed to the Institut Collégial Provencher in Saint Boniface. With her savings she was able to spend some time in Europe, but was forced to return to Canada in 1939 at the outbreak of World War II . She returned with some of her works near completion, but settled in Quebec to earn

184-592: Is served by the Lionel-Groulx and Place-Saint-Henri Metro stations. The district's working-class character was most memorably recorded by Gabrielle Roy in her novel The Tin Flute (Bonheur d'occasion) . Saint-Henri has been the subject of two National Film Board of Canada (NFB) documentaries, each capturing one day in the life of the district. In 1962 Hubert Aquin directed À St-Henri le cinq septembre ( September Five at Saint-Henri ). In 2010, director Shannon Walsh and producer Sarah Spring oversaw

207-795: The Atwater Market are located on this street. Below downtown Montreal , it runs through the Little Burgundy district and, by way of the Atwater Tunnel under the Lachine Canal , through the Pointe Saint-Charles district. Atwater Avenue owes its name to a local businessman and city councilor by the name of Edwin Atwater (1808-1874), who participated in the foundation of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank (later known as Laurentian Bank of Canada ), and

230-691: The Montreal Telegraph Company . It was in 1871, that Montreal City Council named the street after Atwater. 45°29′23″N 73°35′07″W  /  45.489737°N 73.585256°W  / 45.489737; -73.585256 This Montreal geographical article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Quebec road, road transport or highway-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Gabrielle Roy Gabrielle Roy CC FRSC ( French pronunciation: [ɡabʁijɛl ʁwa] ; March 22, 1909 – July 13, 1983)

253-726: The Ville-Marie borough to the north, and Henri Duhamel Street in the Verdun borough to the south. It is named for Edwin Atwater . The street runs through the Atwater Tunnel near the Atwater Market in Saint-Henri , before climbing and straddling the border of the city of Westmount . The Montreal Forum , Place Alexis-Nihon , Dawson College , Atwater and Lionel-Groulx stations of the Montreal Metro , and

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276-606: The Victor Talking Machine Company's first factory space located in Canada where they produced flat discs, gramophones, radios, and military equipment for the Second World War. Though the space has changed much over the years and the building is no longer in use as a factory of RCA Victor, there is a museum located in the old RCA building called le Musée des Ondes Emile Berliner. The museum covers

299-515: The age of seventy-four. Her autobiography, La Détresse et l'enchantement , was published posthumously and translated in 1984 by Patricia Claxton , a prominent Quebec translator who is considered the primary translator of Gabrielle Roy's works from French to English. Her translation of Gabrielle Roy's autobiography, translated into English as Enchantment and Sorrow was awarded the Governor General's Award in 1987. The autobiography covers

322-461: 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. The bustle of a nearby passenger rail station was immortalized in the song "Place St. Henri" (1964) by Oscar Peterson . Saint-Henri is part of the municipal district of Saint-Henri–Petite-Bourgogne–Pointe-Saint-Charles. The borough hall for Le Sud-Ouest

345-447: The life of Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone, as well as details the history of his inventions, as well as his company even after his family was no longer affiliated with it. The museum is a technology museum and explores the nature and science behind sound waves. Many of the district's notable Art deco buildings, including Atwater Market and the historic No. 23 fire hall, were designed by Ludger Lemieux . The neighbourhood

368-599: The most influential Canadian authors. In 1963, she was on a panel that gave the Montreal World's Fair, Expo 67 , its theme: Terre des hommes or in English Man and His World . It was her suggestion to use Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 's 1939 book title as the organizing theme. In 2016, Margaret Atwood , who had read her books as a teenager, wrote an essay about her career, and noted that her works were still more relevant than ever. Gabrielle Roy died in 1983 at

391-665: The prestigious Prix Femina in 1947. Published in English as The Tin Flute (1947), the book won the 1947 Governor General's Award for fiction as well as the Royal Society of Canada 's Lorne Pierce Medal . Distributed in the United States, where it sold more than three-quarters of a million copies, the Literary Guild of America made The Tin Flute a feature book of the month in 1947. The book garnered so much attention that Roy returned to Manitoba to escape

414-436: The publicity. There are two French versions of Bonheur d'occasion . The first was published in 1945 by Société des Éditions Pascal in two volumes. This version was translated in 1947 by Hannah Josephson , who removed several short passages from the English version. In 1965, Librairie Beauchemin published an abridged French version eliminating a number of passages. This second version was translated by Alan Brown in 1980. As

437-456: The vitality of a sparsely populated frontier. Another of her novels brought additional critical acclaim. Alexandre Chenevert (1954), is a dark and emotional story that is ranked as one of the most significant works of psychological realism in the history of Canadian literature . She is considered by many to be one of the most important Francophone writers in Canadian history and one of

460-633: The years from Gabrielle Roy's childhood in Manitoba to the time when she settled in Quebec. The movie Tramp at the Door , based on Roy's short story and released in 1985, was dedicated to her memory. Patricia Claxton won her second Governor General's Award in 1999 for translating François Ricard 's biography of Gabrielle Roy. She won the Governor General's Award three times, the Prix David twice,

483-678: Was a Canadian author from St. Boniface, Manitoba and one of the major figures in French Canadian literature. Roy was born in 1909 in Saint-Boniface (now part of Winnipeg ), Manitoba , and was educated at the Académie Saint-Joseph. She was born into a family of eleven children and reportedly began to write at an early age. She lived on rue Deschambault, a house and neighbourhood in Saint-Boniface that would later inspire one of her most famous works. The house

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506-566: Was occupied predominantly by French-Canadian blue-collar workers while Little Burgundy was occupied primarily by African-Canadians who worked on the railroads. Today both neighbourhoods have a population of varied ethnicity and social class, especially in the recent housing developments that have sprouted along the Lachine Canal. A great number of teenagers from neighbouring districts attend Polyvalente Saint-Henri and James Lyng High School ( English Montreal School Board ). St-Henri housed

529-513: 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. The municipality was incorporated into the City of Montreal in 1905. Well-known people from Saint-Henri include strongman Louis Cyr , who served as

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