Golden Square Mile

The Golden Square Mile (French: "Le Mille Carré Doré") was the name of a luxurious neighbourhood at the foot of Mount Royal in the west-central section of downtown Montreal, Canada. The name is still used today in the Montreal real estate world to designate an area where the neighbourhood was once located and today includes many luxurious residential projects along Sherbrooke Street. The Square Mile, as a neighbourhood, is generally understood to have existed between 1875 and 1930, at which point, in the face of economic hardship and an increasingly desperate situation in Depression-era Montreal (along with a dawning automobile era, and a desire for more modern homes), many of the former occupants decamped for Westmount and other...