La Petite Patrie is a French Canadian media franchise about coming of age in Montreal, Quebec in the 1940s.
The title and premise are shared by three works: A novel by Claude Jasmin loosely based on his own adolescence and published in 1972, a television situation comedy series broadcast on the national Radio-Canada network from 1974 to 1976, [1] and a graphic novel with story by Claude Jasmin, script by Normand Grégoire, and illustrations by Julie Rocheleau, published in 2015. [2]
The municipal borough in which it the story is set, Rosemont, was officially renamed Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie in honour of the series. [3] The series was reaired in 2023 on Ici ARTV. [3]
La Petite Patrie tells the life of a district of Montreal (Villeray) formed by the quadrilateral of the streets Saint-Denis, Beaubien, St-Hubert and Bélanger shortly after World War II, between 1946 and 1948.
The main character and narrator of the television series is Clément Germain, a 16 year old teenager who lived in this district with his family. Through the memories of Clément, viewers discovered this neighborhood during the years of Duplessis; with its trams, its ice deliverymen, its guénillou and its anglophone Chinese launderer among others. At that time, bread cost 11 cents, Maurice Richard was at the peak of his glory and the Rivoli theatre had not yet been replaced by a Jean-Coutu.
Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie is a borough (arrondissement) in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located centre-east of the island.
Paul Georges Buissonneau, was a leading francophone theatre director in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec or BAnQ is a Quebec government agency which manages the province's legal deposit system, national archives, and national library. Located at the Grande Bibliothèque in Montreal, the BAnQ was created by the merging of the Bibliothèque nationale du Québec and the Archives nationales du Québec in 2006. The Bibliothèque nationale du Québec had previously merged with the Grande Bibliothèque du Québec in 2002.
Louise Forestier is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress.
Beaubien station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Orange Line. The station opened on October 14, 1966, as part of the original network of the Metro.
Montreal has a large and well-developed communications system, including several English and French language television stations, newspapers, radio stations, and magazines. It is Canada's second-largest media market, and the centre of francophone Canada's media industry.
Rosemont—La Petite-Patrie is a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1979.
Ici ARTV is a Canadian French language specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The channel broadcasts the arts and culture including music, dance, theatre, visual arts, films and scripted television series.
The Centre Étienne Desmarteau is a multi-purpose complex with two ice rinks in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Gouin is a provincial electoral district in the Montreal region of the province of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It consists of part of the Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie borough of Montreal. The riding covers the neighbourhoods of La Petite-Patrie and Parc Molson, plus a small part of Vieux-Rosemont.
François Purcell is an elected official from Montreal. He was head of the municipal Vision Montréal Party between May 2006 and 2008. He was city councillor of the district of Saint-Édouard, in the arrondissement of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, from his entry into municipal politics, in 1998. He has also been president of the elected caucus of Vision Montréal. He has sat on the Commissions for finance, administrative services and human resources for the city of Montreal.
Yves Jacques OC is a Canadian film, television and stage actor.
Louise Archambault is a Canadian film director and screenwriter. She is best known for her films Familia, which won the Claude Jutra Award in 2005, and Gabrielle, which won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Picture in 2014.
La Petite-Patrie is a neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie.
École secondaire Marguerite-De Lajemmerais is a Francophone secondary public mixed school located in Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough in Montreal, Quebec. Part of the Centre de services scolaire de Montréal (CSSDM), it was originally in the catholic School board Commission des écoles catholiques de Montréal (CECM) before the 1998 reorganization of School boards from religious communities into linguistic communities in Quebec. In 2019, the school had 677 students.
De L'Assomption Boulevard is a main north–south street in the Montreal boroughs of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie and Saint-Léonard.
D'Iberville Street is a north-south thoroughfare of Montreal.
The boroughs of Montreal, like the rest of Canada and the world, have been individually impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Claude Jasmin was a Canadian journalist, broadcaster, and writer from Quebec.