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Originally Posted by begratto
While it is not "Arabic" per se, Montreal does have a " Petit Maghreb (or Little Maghreb)" district, mostly centered on Jean-Talon between Pie-IX and St-Michel.
There are also quite a few other other neighbourhoods with a high concentration of Algerian/Tunisian/Morrocan stores and restaurants, like Villeray, Ville St-Laurent and Chomedey in Laval, but they're not really branded as Maghrebic "districts".
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Ville St-Liban as my kids' friends all call it!
One thing about ethnically branding these areas is that demographics are inherently changeable. In Toronto there are a bunch of places branded as "Little A" with signage and everything, but that are now dominated by ethnic groups X, Y and Z and group A is long gone.
Ottawa's Little Italy almost certainly has more Asians than Italians living in it now, although for the moment the Italian business sector there is still strong.
Anyway, nothing really wrong with any of that, though it does make things look funny sometimes.