Mount Royal Avenue

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Mount Royal Avenue
Mount Royal facing Olympic tower.JPG
Mount Royal Avenue looking east, towards Olympic Stadium, June 2007
Native nameAvenue du Mont-Royal (French)
Former name(s)Tannery Road (Chemin des Tanneries)
Location Montreal
West endAvenue Vincent-d'Indy, Outremont
Major
junctions
Qc335.svg R-335 Saint Denis Street
East endQc125.svg R-125 Pie-IX Boulevard, Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie
Looking west, towards Mount Royal. Avenue Mont-Royal (Montreal) 2005-08-27 take 2.jpg
Looking west, towards Mount Royal.

Mount Royal Avenue (officially in French : avenue du Mont-Royal), once named Tannery Road (French : chemin des Tanneries), is a street in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The main part of the street transects the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, from Park Avenue at the foot of Mount Royal, for which the road is named, to Frontenac St. Another section in Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie runs from Molson St. to Pie-IX Boulevard. West of Park Avenue, the road continues into Outremont (where it becomes Mount Royal Boulevard), skirting the northern rim of the mountain to a terminus at Vincent d'Indy Avenue near the Édouard-Montpetit metro station.

The western section of the avenue is the principal artery of the Plateau, [1] [2] forming the southern border of the Mile End neighbourhood. Notable businesses on the street include the restaurants La Binerie Mont-Royal [3] and Beauty's. [4] The Mont-Royal metro station is located at the corner of Mount Royal Ave. and Rivard St., at Place Gérald-Godin.

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