Mile End

Mile End is a neighbourhood and municipal electoral district in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Mile End is part of the Plateau-Mont-Royal borough in terms of Montreal's municipal politics. Local residents make a distinction between Mile End, a highly multicultural district with a mix of Anglophone and Francophone populations, and the eastern parts of the Plateau borough, which have primarily Francophone populations. Mile End since the 1980s has been known for its Anglophone culture and as an artistic neighbourhood, home to artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers such as Arcade Fire, Adam Gollner, Bran Van 3000, Grimes, Sean Michaels and Plants and Animals, etc. Many art galleries, designers' workshops, boutiques and cafés are...