Montréal - Rue Sherbrooke

Named after Sir John Sherbrooke, Governor General of Canada from 1816 to 1818, Rue Sherbrooke is probably the city's most elegant main shopping thoroughfare, still retaining in the downtown section something of its 19th c. charm as it cuts across the Île de Montréal from east to west. At the turn of the century the few thousand people living in this quarter on the slopes of Mont-Royal owned about 70 per cent of Canada's wealth, earning it the title of the "Golden Square Mile".