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Originally Posted by hipster duck
Other than Westmount and Outremont, the rich areas of Montreal are kind of a mystery to me.
Does Montreal have an enclave for the global super-rich, like a Bridle Path or Point Grey? Does it have a rich suburb, like West Vancouver or Oakville? Where do the nouveau riche build their McMansions? Where did the Francophone elite live before the Quiet Revolution?
I get that Montreal and Quebec, in general, is a bit more egalitarian and has fewer super wealthy households than English Canada, but it’s still a very big city and the number of wealthy or even upper middle class areas always seemed kind of small.
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Other than Westmount and Outremont, who are the two large, obvious rich parts of Montreal, you have also
Ville Mont-Royal, an old suburb build north of Mount-Royal. It's not as affluent as Westmount or Outremont, but it's up there. It is also a National Historic Site of Canada, as a "[remarkable] synthesis of urban renewal movements of the early 20th century, reflecting the influence of the City Beautiful, Garden City and Garden Suburb movements".
From
wikipedia: The town was designed by Frederick Todd, a planner who was heavily influenced by the likes of Ebenezer Howard and incorporated many aspects of the Garden City Movement as well some elements of the earlier City Beautiful movement into his design. The plan was to build a model city at the foot of Mount Royal. The company bought 4,800 acres (1,900 ha) of farmland, and then built a rail tunnel under Mount Royal connecting their land to downtown Montreal. The profits from the venture helped finance the development of Canadian Northern's transcontinental railroad, which eventually became a significant constituent of the Canadian National Railway system. The town was designed by Canadian Northern's chief engineer, Henry Wicksteed, based loosely on Washington, D.C.
Just like Westmount, Ville Mont-Royal refused to be amalgamated to Montreal and therefore it's a different municipality.
For reference, you can clearly see it on this picture: it's the big green patch north of Mount Royal. It's completely build, but also completely hidden under the canopy.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDzUw8KpIVC/
Hampstead is another affluent part of Montreal.
From
Wikipedia: The Town of Hampstead was founded in 1914. It was designed to be an exclusive garden city. There are no retail shops within municipal boundaries. Houses were assigned relatively large lots to allow space for trees and shrubbery. The town's roads were designed with curves in order to slow down traffic and to create an interesting and intimate landscape. Despite its rather flat topography—much of the territory was once a golf course—the town was named after another garden city, the London suburb of Hampstead Village. Like its namesake, Hampstead is the home of many affluent citizens, and competes with a few other suburbs for first place in the rankings of highest average household incomes in Canada.
As for more distant rich suburb, I guess
Senneville fits the part. This is a place where mansions and manors are build away rom the road and protected by big iron fence. American movies are often shot there. It is also a National Historic Site of Canada, just like Westmount and Ville Mont-Royal.
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