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Originally Posted by Kilgore Trout
The difference between Pointe-Claire and Port Credit is that, whereas there is some continuity between the older lakeshore part of Port Credit and the inland postwar developments, there is very little relationship between postwar Pointe-Claire and the old village.
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Indeed. The old village did not expand to create the rest of Pointe Claire; rather it was freeway access to Montreal (the 40 and the 20, although the 20 had some lights in Pointe Claire until the late 80s, at Cartier) that created most of Pointe-Claire (and Kirkland, Beaconsfield, Pierrefonds, Dollard-des-Ormeaux), most of which was built out between 1960-1980. The old village was predominately francophone until the 1960s, whereas the rest of Pointe Claire was largely anglophone, up until the mid 90s.