[montréaliste]

Montreal's Little Italy, or "Petite Italie" is situated near Jean Talon street around St Lawrence boulevard. It is still teming with Italian businesses and some residential holdouts. St Leaonard in the east end of Montreal Island is bigger and more recent from the fifties on and is now becoming more Latin American and Arabic. But the now old money is definiteley Italian, they are the builders of condo towers and own property in the billions.

Little Italy is also becoming more Latin American, Arabic, and Vietnamese but always comprised an important Lebanese Syrian community dating back to the turn of the century.

There are many small clusters of Italian neighborhoods in Montreal, like the ones in LaSalle, and NDG with a fair amount of specialized businesses.