Notre-Dame-de-Grâce
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is a residential district of Montreal located to the west of downtown; population: 68,345 (Statistics Canada, 1996).
The neighbourhood, which is known as NDG to locals, is part of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges/Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The Eastern part of N.D.G., clustered around the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce parish church has always been a traditional francophone district. The central and Western parts were traditionally the home of middle-class anglophones, although they have a growing francophone and immigrant population. The Loyola Campus of Concordia University is located in the western part of the district.
The major commercial streets are Monkland and Sherbrooke. At the Eastern end of Monkland lies the Villa María station of the Montreal metro.