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 Sherbrooke Street East at Berri Street | |
| Native name | rue Sherbrooke (French) |
|---|---|
| Part of |  R-138 up to Cavendish Boulevard |
| Length | 31.3 km (19.4 mi) |
| Location | Island of Montreal |
| Coordinates | 45°30′29″N 73°34′16″W / 45.50806°N 73.57111°W |
| West end | Avenue Westminster, Montreal West |
| Major junctions |  A-15 Décarie Highway  A-25 (TCH) L.-H. Lafontaine Expressway R-335 Saint Denis Street R-134 De Lorimier Avenue & Papineau Avenue |
| East end | Notre-Dame Street, Pointe-aux-Trembles |
| Construction | |
| Construction start | 1817 |
Sherbrooke Street (officially in French: rue Sherbrooke) is a major east–west artery and at 31.3 kilometres (19.4 mi) in length, is the second longest street on the Island of Montreal, Canada. The street begins in the town of Montreal West and ends on the extreme tip of the island in Pointe-aux-Trembles, intersecting Gouin Boulevard and joining up with Notre-Dame Street. East of Cavendish Boulevard this road is part of Quebec Route 138.
The street is divided into two portions. Sherbrooke Street East is located east of Saint Laurent Boulevard and Sherbrooke Street West is located west. Sherbrooke Street West is home to many historic mansions that comprised its exclusive Golden Square Mile district, including the now-demolished Van Horne Mansion, the imposing Beaux-Arts style Montreal Masonic Memorial Temple as well as several historic properties incorporated into Maison Alcan, the world headquarters for Alcan.[1][2]
Sherbrooke Street East runs along the edge (both administrative and topographic) of the Plateau Mont-Royal, at the top of a marked hillside known as Côte à Baron, and continues between the Montreal Botanical Garden and Parc Maisonneuve to the north and Parc Olympique to the south. The street is named for John Coape Sherbrooke, the Governor General of British North America from 1816 to 1818.[3]
A separate street of the same name exists in Lachine; it does not carry the "West" suffix and repeats numbers that are used on the longer Sherbrooke Street.
- ^ Dutton, Nancy (2008). "Maison Alcan". A Guidebook to Contemporary Architecture in Montreal. Douglas & Mcintyre. pp. 26–27. ISBN 978-1553653462.
- ^ Drouin, Martin (3 April 2005). Le Combat du Patrimoine à Montréal, 1973-2003 (in French). Presses de l'Université du Québec. pp. 225–26. ISBN 9782760518469.
- ^ Larsen, Wayne (2007-01-29). "A celebration of Sherbrooke Street". Westmount Examiner. Retrieved 2009-01-09.