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Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: Current | | Notes: Popular family-owned restaurant on Dante Street (the day after a snow storm). Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: Current | | Notes: Dante Street in Montreal's Little Italy in the winter time. Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec | | Date: Current | | Notes: A popular restaurant on Dante Street in Montreal's Little Italy. Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: Current | | Notes: A snowman stands with a cigarette in his mouth on Dante Street in Montreal's Little Italy. If Italians didn't have a sense of humor they would not have been able to tolerate Quebec's weather. They would have packed up their bags and headed back home. Well, maybe not home to sunny Italy, but they might have escaped to Toronto (It does have less snow!). Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: Current | | Notes: Dante Street in Montreal's Little Italy was home to many newcomers in the early 1950s, including this contributor's father. Giuseppe Melfi rented a room from a relative who took in boarders. Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: Current | | Notes: A side street in Montreal's Little Italy. Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec, Canada | | Date: Current | | Notes: A popular Italian food shop and restaurant. Its outside ad reads: "Pizza Maison/Boulangerie/Charcuterie/Patisserie/Trattoria." Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Jean Talon Market, Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec | | Date: Current | Notes: Jean-Talon Market
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jean-Talon Market (French: March? Jean-Talon) is a farmer's market in Montreal. Located in the Little Italy district, the market is bordered by Jean-Talon Street to the north, Mozart Ave. to the south, Casgrain Ave. to the west and Henri-Julien Ave. to the east. It contains two city-maintained streets both called Place du March? du Nord. The market is located between the Jean-Talon and De Castelnau metro stations.
History
The market was opened to the public in 1933 while Camillien Houde was the city mayor. Before that, the space the market now occupies was a lacrosse field for the "Shamrock Lacrosse Grounds" club.
The market's single building (the chalet) quickly become the focal point for development of the area around it. From the opening until 1961, the chalet was used as a terminal for buses heading to the neighbouring city of Laval. Between 1961 and 1970 a municipal library and a social services centre replaced the bus station. Since then, the space was occupied by administrative offices.
Major renovations were undertaken in 2004 to handle the crowds that populate the market during the summer months. An underground parking lot was constructed, and an above ground structure was built over the underground parking area, to host 20 specialty boutiques.
Activities
The market is open year-round, even during Montreal's severe winters, although during this time walls are placed around the entire market area. During the peak summer period, between June and October, its open-air arcades are occupied by about 300 vendors, mostly farmers from the countryside around Montreal.
The open air market is surrounded by other food businesses: meat, fish and cheese stores, bulk food emporia, dealers in spices and imported goods, bakeries, restaurants and a branch of the SAQ, among others.
Stores surrounding the open-air market include: La Fromagerie Hamel William J. Walter boucherie Les Touilleurs kitchenware
Since July 15, 2006 vehicles are banned from circulating inside the market's streets during the summer weekends.".................................. The photo of an Italian-Canadian vendor stringing peppers at the Jean Talon Market was taken by Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Courtesy of Wikipedia
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Jean Talon Market, Little Italy, Montreal, Quebec | | Date: Current | Notes: Located in Little Italy the Jean Talon open-air fruit and vegetable market has been around since 1934. The farmers' market was very popular with the first wave of Italian immigrants. Nowadays, large Italian-owned grocery stores have taken over a large chunk of its business. Still, many second and third generation Italians come here to buy their vegetables in bulk for canning and drying.
Photo: Mary Melfi. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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Little Italy, Montreal, Canada | | Date: Summer 2009 | | Notes: Jean-Talon Market. | Contributed by: Mary Melfi
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