District Saint-Roch (Quebec)

The district Saint-Roch is in the district of the City to Quebec, with the Canada. This district shelters the very new downtown area, formerly dying man. The street Saint-Joseph made new skin and makes the pride of the residents now.

History

The district of Saint-Roch is one of the oldest suburbs of Quebec. The expansion of the city towards these grounds starts as of the end of the XVIIe century. The district however takes its true rise in the middle of the XVIIIe century following with the advent of the shipyards along the Rivière Saint-Charles. Towards the end of the next century, the economy of Saint-Roch, mainly centered on the construction of ships, knows a stagnation. One attends then with a reorientation of the activities towards other types of industries and the development of the commercial sector.

At the end of the XIXe century, Saint-Roch becomes the populeux district and most prosperous of Quebec. Unfortunately, years 1960 know a fall of the activities to the profit of the suburbs. This deceleration will be maintained until the years 1990.

From which does the name come from this district? Of a vault dedicated to Saint-Roch whom Récollets had built during the French Mode close to the Rivière Saint-Charles.

The originality of the district of Saint-Roch is due to the overlap of various types of activity in a restricted space. The street Saint-Joseph and its many trade, the library Gabrielle-Roy, the law courts, the Station of the Palate, the Old man-Port, the park Victoria, the garden of Saint-Roch, his houses of teaching give him a single seal. Its streets and its architecture testify in addition to the richness of its history.

Considering his great potential, Saint-Roch has been the subject for a few years of interventions of revitalization.

Today, to give again with the district its animation of formerly figure more than ever among the priorities of the City.

Bars and discotheques

• the Boudoir: Style “lounge”.
• the Scanner: Style punk-rock'n'roll

Tradesmen, companies and craftsmen

• Hugo Boss: Modern shop of linen.
• Mountain Equipment Co-COp: co-operative of outdoor.
• the Sun: Daily newspaper of Quebec.
• International demonstration of art of Quebec Official site: Organization of promotion in current visual arts.
• TQS : Television broadcast station of network TQS.
• Voir.ca : Office of Quebec of the newspaper See.

Coffees

Restaurants

Remarkable sites and monuments

• Frescos on the pillars of the highway Dufferin-Montmorency

Places and streets

• Park Victoria
• Park of the Point-with-Hares
• Park of the Central Youth
• Garden of Saint-Roch
• of police force
• Municipal Stage of Quebec

Cours and lanes

• Street Saint-Joseph
• Boulevard Charest

Religious buildings

• Church Saint-Roch

Private mansions

Houses of writers

Museums, rooms, theaters and places of exposures

• Gallery Rouje: Exposure, impro, etc Site officiel
• Theater of the Broadside
• Theater Imperial the
• the White Room: The oldest center of artists self-managed of Quebec, which proposes programming in current art. Site officiel
• Complex Jellyfish: Artistic, cultural and Community diffuser and producers' cooperative (arts visual, video, cinema, media and interdisciplinary art, etc). Exposures and spectacles. " Official site with bonds towards the organizations membres"