Saint Laurent Boulevard

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Saint Lawrence Boulevard or boulevard Saint-Laurent is a major street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A commercial artery and cultural heritage site, the street runs north-south through the near-centre of city and is nicknamed The Main.
In 2002, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada named Saint Lawrence Boulevard as The Main National Historic Site of Canada.
Today, Saint Lawrence is home to Little Italy (between Saint-Zotique and Jean-Talon streets), Mile End between Mount Royal and Van Horne Avenues, Montreal’s Little Portugal, clustered around Duluth and Rachel Streets, Montreal’s Chinatown (between Viger Street and René Lévesque Boulevard), a bar district (roughly between Sherbrooke and Duluth streets), and a small red-light district.
The Main has produced many of Canada’s most prolific individuals in the arts and has acted as a memory space. Novelists Mordecai Richler and Michel Tremblay and poets Irving Layton, A. M. Klein and Leonard Cohen were all influenced by this area. Canada’s most prestigious award for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was named after journalist Doris Giller, a native to the area.
Numerous art galleries and other cultural organizations make their home on the Main. including La Centrale/Powerhouse (Canada’s oldest women’s artist-run centre), Théâtre Espace Go (since 1995), Ethnik-art, the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Festival International Nuits d’Afrique, the Montreal Fringe Festival, Image & Nation Festival, My Hero Gallery, the Society for Arts and Technology and Sensation Mode.
Many well-known music venues can be found on the Main, including Casa del Popolo, The Academy Club and Divan Orange. The street is also home to the National Theatre School Of Canada as well as the EXcentris arts complex, adjacent to the offices of Softimage.

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