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Montreal has lost a lot of neighbourhoods over the years, thanks mostly to postwar mega-projects. In 1964, Goose Village<\/a>, a working-class Italian neighbourhood that was also home to many English, Irish, Polish and Ukrainian families, was bulldozed for Expo ’67 parking. 330 families were displaced. Around the same time, the slow death of Griffintown<\/a> was encouraged by Mayor Drapeau, who had never liked the area or its councillor, Frank Hanley<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In 1966, the old village of Longue Pointe<\/a> made way for an approach to the Louis H. Lafontaine Bridge-Tunnel, even though it could have been built in one of the open fields<\/a> that bordered the village. A few years later, in 1973, the Faubourg Ste. Marie — commonly known as the Faubourg \u00e0 m’lasse — was demolished to make way for the Maison Radio Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the wholesale demolition of entire neighbourhoods ceased to be common practice in the 1980s and 90s, when urban renewal fell out of favour. Oddly, though, it now seems that we’re about to take up the practice once again: some are worried that Turcot Village and Les Tanneries, two small neighbourhoods in the far west end of St. Henri, will disappear as the giant Turcot Interchange is reconstructed. <\/p>\n

Since the plan is to build a new surface-level interchange to replace the current elevated structure, some expropriations would appear to be necessary, but the Minist\u00e8re de Transports du Qu\u00e9bec isn’t clear on just how much property would be taken. In the Gazette, an MTQ representive claims that “only small pieces of land<\/a>” from front or back yards will need to be bought. But on Walking Turcot Yards<\/a>, one commenter fears that a large loft building and as many as twenty triplexes might be demolished for the new interchange. <\/p>\n

Displaced residents would be offered the equivalent of three months’ rent; those who stay will have to deal with up to six years of construction. Neath, who writes Walking Turcot Yards, is outraged<\/a>. “Something just isn\u2019t right in this process,” he writes. “Maybe in the 1960\u2019s it was still okay to operate this way with Drapeauvian zeal for the mega project, to view it all as the inevitable side effects of ‘progress’, but I would sure like to think we have grown up as a society since then and have also become a little more intelligent (and possibly even more sensitive?!?) in our approach to things, but we have chosen to repeat old methods, antiquated solutions, tunnel vision, and, yes, arrogance.”<\/p>\n

Throughout Montreal’s history — and indeed, the history of any city that suffered large-scale urban renewal in the 1950s, 60s and 70s — there is a common thread that runs through neighbourhoods that were demolished. They were poor, marginal and treated with contempt by city and provincial officials. Turcot Village and Les Tanneries are no different. Don’t let them disappear. <\/p>\n

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