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from the first half of the 19th century. It has a deep main niche and shallower niches on the
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sides.
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There is a memorial plaque dedicated to Anton Župec, a communist activist from Iška Vas that was
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killed on 20 March 1942. The square granite plaque was installed on a cliff along the road to
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Gornji Ig in 1971, approximately 250 m from the fork in the road to the hamlet of Mala Vas.
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The Benko Mill () is an operating water-driven sawmill with a Venetian frame saw located opposite
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house no. 14 along a branch of the Iška River. It dates from the mid-19th century and is installed
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in a wooden building with a masonry foundation.
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References
External links
Iška on Geopedia
Populated places in the Municipality of Ig
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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (), also nicknamed NDG, is a residential neighbourhood of Montreal in the city's
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West End, with a population of 166,520 (2016). An independent municipality until annexed by the
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City of Montreal in 1910, NDG is today one half of the borough of
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Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. It comprises two wards, Loyola to the west and
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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce to the east. NDG is bordered by four independent enclaves; its eastern border
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is shared with the City of Westmount, Quebec, to the north and west it is bordered by the cities of
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Montreal West, Hampstead and Côte-Saint-Luc. NDG plays a pivotal role in serving as the commercial
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and cultural hub for Montreal's predominantly English-speaking West End, with Sherbrooke Street
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West running the length of the community as the main commercial artery. The community is roughly
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bounded by Grey Avenue and the Décarie Expressway to the east, Côte-Saint-Luc Road to the north,
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Connaught Avenue in the west and Highway 20 and the Saint-Jacques Escarpment to the south.
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History
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At the time of Montreal's founding in 1642 most of the land stretching past Mount Royal to the
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northwest was a vast forest running the length of a long, narrow ridge known as the Saint Jacques
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Escarpment. The area that was to become Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was founded along that ridge, near a
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since-drained Lac Saint-Pierre. The first Europeans settled the area eight years after the founding
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of the colony of Ville Marie, on November 18, 1650. They were Jean Descarries (or Descaris) dit le
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Houx and Jean Leduc, from Igé, Perche, France.
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Both settlers received of land in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, a vast territory that stretched from what
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would become Atwater Avenue to Lachine.
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In 1853, construction of the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was completed.
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In December 1876, the Municipality of the Village of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was established through
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proclamation. In 1906, the village of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was incorporated as a town. On June 4,
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1910, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce was annexed to the city of Montreal.
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It was during this period that the long-established Descarries family reached its peak.
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Daniel-Jérémie Décarie (1836-1904) was mayor of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce from 1877 to 1904 and his son,
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lawyer Jérémie-Louis Décarie (1870-1927), was a Quebec parliamentarian.
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In May 1912, Décarie Boulevard was officially designated, running north–south from Côte-des-Neiges
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and the Town of Mount Royal in the north to Saint-Henri and Côte-Saint-Paul in the south (a section
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of the road was already known as Décarie Avenue).
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In 1908, the first tramway made its appearance in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, running around the north
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side of Mount Royal from Snowdon Station to the intersection of Mount Royal and Parc avenues.
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Gradually the village developed around the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce which was the head church
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of the seven parishes on the western part of the Island of Montreal.
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It was around 1920 that Anglophones began settling in NDG, resulting in the construction of
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numerous schools and churches. The Décarie Expressway opened to motorists in 1966, in time for Expo
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67. The highway construction forced the displacement of 285 families and had a major impact on the
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neighbourhood, severing the easternmost part from the whole and leading to the area being referred
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to as 'Westmount-adjacent' (a term implying housing costs and lifestyles more on par with
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Westmount, one of the most affluent communities in North America, rather than NDG which as a whole
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is more middle income).
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Since 2002, the area has been administratively attached to Côte-des-Neiges as the borough of
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Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.
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Geography
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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is bounded on the east by the border with Westmount and Côte-des-Neiges, the
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south by the Saint-Jacques Escarpment, and the north by Côte-Saint-Luc Road, extending west to the
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border with Montreal West.
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Demographics
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Broadly speaking Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is a middle class first-ring residential suburb with a
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culturally and linguistically diverse urban population. The cityscape and history of the community
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is rooted firmly in NDG's role as a home for an upwardly-mobile French Canadian middle class that
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developed much of the land roughly between Confederation and the First World War. The neighbourhood
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is characterized by traditional Quebecois housing styles - notably the detached or semidetached
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duplex - as well as being organized along the historic land division system developed by for
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agricultural purposes during Quebec's colonial period (i.e. long, rectangular city blocks running
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perpendicular to a river or ridge). It is a predominantly residential neighbourhood with
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considerable appeal to a wide variety of Montrealers, owing principally to its local cultural
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cachet, proximity to the urban core of the city, and wide variety of commercial and public
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services.
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NDG is a community of communities, as there are several somewhat distinct neighbourhoods within it.
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Officially the community is divided into an eastern and western ward with Cavendish Boulevard
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serving as the bisecting line. The eastern part of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is itself split in two parts
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by the Décarie Expressway (running north–south), which was built in the late 1950s and resulted in
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the destruction of many hundreds of homes. The eastern ward is focused around the parish church at
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the intersection of Décarie and Notre-Dame-de-Grâce avenue, with many of the neighbourhood's oldest
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buildings being found nearby. Owing to its history, the eastern ward is primarily francophone,
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middle class and has a strong French and Quebecois cultural and aesthetic character.
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The western ward developed during the interwar and post-WW2 era and is more varied in terms of
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housing styles, income levels, cultural representation and spoken languages. Generally speaking NDG
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is associated with Montreal's multi-ethnic middle-class Anglophone community, given the presence of
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major Anglophone institutions like Loyola College of Concordia University and the MUHC
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super-hospital, but despite this association the majority of residents are fully bilingual in
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French and English and speak both on a regular, if not daily, basis.
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Affordable housing and proximity to major Anglophone post-secondary educational institutions,
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particularly Dawson College and Concordia University, has resulted in a large and consistent
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student population residing in NDG.
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The visible minority population of the neighborhood is 33%, with the ethnic breakdown of the
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neighborhood varied over the territory of NDG.
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There is also a sizeable Afro-Canadian and immigrant community, concentrated mostly around the
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parts of the district north of Somerled Avenue as well as south of Sherbrooke Street, and a 'Little
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Italy' located south of the Canadian Pacific line, colloquially referred to as Saint Raymond. Saint
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Raymond, with a population of 5 915, has a black population of 18% and a Chinese population of 12%,
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both notably higher than Montreal as a whole. In recent years, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce has developed
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into a highly desirable neighbourhood for young professionals, though little gentrification has
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occurred outside of the Monkland Village.
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Cityscape
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Geographically NDG is situated on a long plateau extending southwest from Mount Royal, cascading in
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wide terraces down from Côte-Saint-Luc Road ( being the French word for ridge) towards the far
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steeper Saint-Jacques Escarpment. The land is divided, as is traditional in Quebec, in long narrow
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strips, an evolution of the seigneurial land division system of the province's colonial era. Thus,
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NDG has many avenues running north-south, but far fewer running east-west. As such, the community
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