We’ve tried to encapsulate this street in mere sentences before: “Saint-Laurent Boulevard, a thoroughfare of the world where languages, cultures, and identities meet.”
Even now, it doesn’t seem to do it justice: Walk Saint-Laurent Boulevard end to end and you've covered roughly six kilometres of asphalt. You've also covered three and a half centuries of Montreal history, more or less in order. It has been the spine of Montreal: the route out of the old walled city, the corridor through which successive waves of newcomers entered Canadian life, and the dividing line between east and west that somehow became the one place the whole city claimed as its own.
Take me home, country road
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