Atwater Avenue is a major north-south street located 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...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

, Canada

Canada

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. It is links Doctor Penfield Avenue

Doctor Penfield Avenue

Doctor Penfield Avenue is a one-way eastbound street located in the Golden Square Mile neighbourhood of the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Spanning 1.7 kilometres, it begins at Avenue des Pins in the east and terminates at Avenue McDougall in the West. Avenue du...

 in the Ville-Marie borough to the north, and Henri Duhamel Street in the Verdun borough to the south. It runs through a tunnel, the Atwater Tunnel near the Atwater Market in Saint-Henri

Saint-Henri

Saint-Henri is a neighbourhood in southwestern Montreal, Quebec, Canada, in the borough of Le Sud-Ouest.Saint-Henri is usually considered to be bounded to the east by avenue Atwater, to the west by Autoroute 15, to the north by Autoroute 720, and to the south by the Lachine Canal.- Description...

, before climbing and straddling the border of the city of Westmount

Westmount, Quebec

Westmount is a city on the Island of Montreal, an enclave of the city of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada; pop. 20,494; area 4.02 km²; population density of 5,092.56 inhabitants/km²....

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The Montreal Forum

Montreal Forum

The Montreal Forum was an indoor arena located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Called "the most storied building in hockey history" by Sporting News, it was home of the National Hockey League's Montreal Maroons from 1924 to 1938 and the Montreal Canadiens from 1926 to 1996...

, Place Alexis-Nihon, Dawson College

Dawson College

Dawson College was the first English CEGEP and is located in Westmount, just west of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dawson College is located near the heart of downtown Montreal in a former nunnery on 4.85 hectares of green space...

, the Atwater station

Atwater (Montreal Metro)

Atwater is a station on the Green Line of the Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located on the border between the city of Westmount and the borough of Ville-Marie in Montreal, Quebec, Canada....

, the Lionel-Groulx station

Lionel-Groulx (Montreal Metro)

Lionel-Groulx is a station of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal . It is located in the Saint-Henri area of the borough of Le Sud-Ouest in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is a transfer station between the Green Line and Orange Line.The station...

 and the Atwater Market are located on this street. Below downtown Montreal

Downtown Montreal

Downtown Montreal is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is nearly enitirely located at the southern most slope of Mount Royal and is approximately bounded by Sherbrooke Street to the north, Papineau Avenue to the east, Guy Street or until Shaughnessy Village to the west,...

, it runs through the Little Burgundy

Little Burgundy

Little Burgundy is the informal name of a neighbourhood in the Sud-Ouest borough of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.-Geography:...

 district and, by way of the Atwater Tunnel under the Lachine Canal

Lachine Canal

The Lachine Canal is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, running 14.5 kilometres from the Old Port of Montreal to Lake Saint-Louis, through the boroughs of Lachine, Lasalle and Sud-Ouest.The canal gets its name from the French word for China...

, through the Pointe Saint-Charles district. It is named after Edwin Atwater

Edwin Atwater

Edwin Atwater was a Canadian businessperson, corporate director and municipal politician in Montreal....

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History

Atwater Avenue owes its name to a local businessman and city councilor by the name of Edwin Atwater

Edwin Atwater

Edwin Atwater was a Canadian businessperson, corporate director and municipal politician in Montreal....

 (1808-1874), who participated in the foundation of the Montreal City and District Savings Bank (later known as Laurentian Bank of Canada

Laurentian Bank of Canada

The Laurentian Bank of Canada is a Schedule I bank in the province of Quebec. . LBC's Institution Number is 039.-History:...

), and the Montreal Telegraph Company. It was in 1871, that Montreal city council named the street after Atwater.