actually, craig street was renamed viger. that's one of the more clear-cut cases of montreal street names being "frenchified." but i don't think that the renaming of park avenue is part of this trend.
that said, i do think the complete lack of controversy over this in the francophone press has to do with the fact that park avenue is an anglophone street. the cultural communities who identify so strongly with it and many of the people who live along it speak english, so naturally it is the gazette, not la presse, that has tapped into their anger. park avenue perhaps has more cultural resonance among anglophones because it has appeared so frequently in english montreal fiction.
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