Little Portugal, Montreal
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Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 has a modest Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 population. Its historical population in Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...

 is located in Little Portugal, which is situated in the western portion of the Plateau Mont-Royal neighbourhood.

Portuguese businesses can be found along several blocks of Saint Laurent Boulevard between Pine
Pine Avenue
Pine Avenue is an east-west street located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This street serves as the dividing line between the downtown Ville-Marie borough and borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal....

 and Marie-Anne. The Portuguese area has largely absorbed what used to be the traditional Jewish neighbourhood. There are over 46,000 Montrealers of Portuguese descent.
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