- Little Italy, Montreal
Infobox Settlement
name = Little Italy
official_name = Petite Italie
settlement_type =Neighbourhood
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image_caption = Church of the Madonna della Difesa.
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subdivision_name3 =Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie
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Montreal's Little Italy (French, "La Petite-Italie"; Italian "Piccola Italia") is located onSaint Laurent Boulevard between Jean-Talon and St. Zotique and is home to Montreal's originalItalian Canadian community. It is part of theMontreal borough ofRosemont–La Petite-Patrie , to the south ofVilleray andJarry Park .The neighbourhood is home to many fine Italian shops and restaurants, the
Jean-Talon Market , as well as theChurch of the Madonna della Difesa , built by Italian immigrants from theCampobasso area inMolise to commemorate the apparition ofthe Virgin Mary in "La Difesa", an area of Campobasso.Montreal has the second largest Italian population in Canada after
Toronto . There are 260,345 people of Italian ancestry living within theGreater Montreal Area . [cite web|url=http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/highlights/ethnic/pages/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=CMA&Code=462__&Data=Count&Table=2&StartRec=1&Sort=3&Display=All&CSDFilter=5000 |title=Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada, Highlight Tables, 2006 Census: Montreal (CMA)|publisher=Statistics Canada |accessdate=2008-04-02]ee also
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Città Italiana
*Via Italia, Montreal
*Italian-Canadian References
External links
* [http://ville.montreal.qc.ca/portal/page?_pageid=40,1979845&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL Official website of Little Italy]
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