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Because of the massive arrival of Greek immigrants in the 1960's and the 1970's, the area became the "Greek district of Montreal".

Nowadays, the Greek community living on the territory is still rather large.

Then, the arrival of new waves of European immigrants, combined to the construction of the Jean-Talon train station now represent the most important development factors of the vicinity.

True to its vocation, the district continued to accommodate immigrant populations. Nowadays, approximately one hundred different ethnic groups with more than forty different mother tongues now live in the neighbourhood. They mostly come from Greece of course, but also from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Haiti. The area has been accommodating immigrants for a very long time and the territory is now mostly associated with multiethnicity and multiculturalism.

Because of the “piqueries”, the street gangs and the violence that comes with it, the area was once called the “Bronx” of Montreal.

It happened during the 1980s yet, the neighborhood is still called the Bronx. The phenomenon is in regression but the district and the borough still have a bad reputation and certain groups of people continue to feel insecure.

The rates of victimization and delinquency of youngsters (18 years old and less) and the rates of crimes against property are lower than the average in the City of Montreal. The criminality rate is low, but the criminality is present. Plus, certain sanitary practices of the newcomers who know little about our customs and habits “irritate” the residents.

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