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[...] In our opinion, this historical social mixity can clearly have had an impact on how the city was perceived as a welcoming land afterwards. Let's judge: if, inevitably, Native Americans did not benefit from the same social conditions as French colonists, however they could just as easily use the city's services, such as hospitals for example. This will be the first example of urban ethnic diversity in the few existing quarters, including the future arrondissement of Montreal-Nord 1.2. The diversification of resident minorities from the 19th century If Montreal in the era of New France saw little evolution in terms of migratory dynamics over more than a century, after 1760 and the English invasion, Sault-aux-Récollets, like the rest of the island, will see these change. [...]
[...] How has the Montreal-Nord neighborhood evolved since its creation? Introduction The city of Montreal, like any large Western agglomeration, today constitutes, with nearly 1.8 million inhabitants, a space that is anything but uniform, not to say a mosaic of neighborhoods, at the heart of the city or on the outskirts, presenting their economic, social, and human realities, drawn from their history, the cultures that make them up, and the issues they face. However, when it is the Montreal-North borough that we mention, for those who know the Quebec metropolis, the main images that come to mind are those of growing insecurity, but also of chronic poverty for a population largely from immigration - with the connections, however abusive they may be, between these two phenomena. [...]
[...] High crime rate in Montreal-Nord: a consequence of poverty? In addition to poverty, the other endemic characteristic of the neighborhood is crime. The potential insecurity of the borough was particularly highlighted about a decade ago, during the Fredy Villanueva case, which began on August when the 18-year-old man from Honduras, despite having no prior judicial record, was shot following a police intervention. The borough was then set ablaze, with violent riots protesting this event, but also pointing more generally to the marginalization of the neighborhood's residents, and in particular immigrant minorities. [...]
[...] From the late 18th century after the English defeat in the United States, English American loyalists, eager to remain in a territory of the Crown and to regain lands, arrive in Montreal, as do many British - whether it be English encouraged to populate the new world to rebalance Quebec's demographics, or Irish whose island is plagued by famine. Gradually, demographic growth becomes a real explosion, and this throughout the entire historic Montreal, just like elsewhere in Quebec, where the number of inhabitants is multiplied by five in less than half a century. It is mainly European peoples constant until the 1970s), Germans, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians . but also increasingly non-European immigrants, Asians in particular. Sault-aux-Récollets, close to the heart of the city without constituting the historic center, will become an ideal framework for immigration. 1.3. [...]
[...] The social realities of Montreal-Nord: endemic poverty and unemployment The analysis of the median income of the population of Montreal-Nord is, in our opinion, a good way to understand the social reality of the city. This, for the population of 15 years and over, is $23,412 Canadian in 20165. This represents barely a bit more than two-thirds of the median Canadian income, which stands at $33,700. Of course, disparities exist. Alarmingly of the population of Montreal-Nord is below the low-income threshold (LIT). [...]
