Griffintown is that the common name given to the previous southwestern downtown a part of metropolis, Quebec, that existed from the decade till the Nineteen Sixties and was in the main inhabited by Irish immigrants and their descendants. One will establish Griffintown because the portion of the ward of St. Ann situated north of the Lachine Canal; the half south of the canal is currently a part of Pointe-Saint-Charles. This a part of the ward was delimited by Notre-Dame Street to the North, McGill Street to the east, and a brief phase of town limit between Notre-Dame Street and therefore the canal west of the St. Archangel Locks to the west.
Griffintown was initial inhabited within the early nineteenth century principally by Irish unskilled migrator labourers. They worked on the Lachine Canal and therefore the industries encompassing it, the Victoria Bridge, railways, and therefore the Port Of metropolis. The name gryphontown was derived from mother Griffin. Gryphon lawlessly obtained the lease to the land from a business associate of Thomas McCord in 1799. She then commissioned land surveyor gladiator Charland to subdivide the land and set up streets for the world in 1804.
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