Shaughnessy Village

Shaughnessy Village
Neighbourhood of Montreal
Apartment buildings in the Shaughnessy Village
Shaughnessy Village Location of Shaughnessy Village in Montreal
Coordinates: 45°29′34″N 73°34′49″W / 45.492814°N 73.58041°W / 45.492814; -73.58041
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
City	Montreal
Borough	Ville-Marie
Area [1][2][3][4]
• Total	0.70 km2 (0.27 sq mi)
Population  (2016)[5][6][7][8]
• Total	15,677
• Density	22,396/km2 (58,063/sq mi)
Postal Code	H3H
Area code(s)	514, 438

Shaughnessy Village (sometimes referred to as the Concordia Ghetto) is a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located on the western side of the Ville-Marie borough. It is bounded by Guy Street to the east, Atwater Street to the west, Sherbrooke Street to the north, and René Lévesque Boulevard and the Ville-Marie Expressway to the south.

This neighbourhood is the most densely populated area of Quebec, due to the large number of high-rise apartment towers built in the 1960s and 1970s.^[9] The area is characterized by high-density residential housing and small businesses, typically owned and operated by immigrants living in the neighbourhood, concentrated at its core, with stately Victorian grey-stone row houses and beaux-arts styled apartment blocks at the edges of the neighbourhood. It is a primarily institutional neighbourhood, with a university, junior college, seminary, hospital and architecture museum among many private schools, colleges and technical schools.

In 1981, local citizens named the neighbourhood after Shaughnessy House, built in 1874 for Thomas Shaughnessy, president of the Canadian Pacific Railway.^[10] The house was declared a National Historic Site of Canada in 1974, and is now part of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.^[11]

Other notable landmarks in the area include the Montreal Forum, the former site of the Montreal Children's Hospital on Atwater Avenue, and Le Faubourg Sainte-Catherine shopping mall and Cabot Square.