The Point (1978) - The Irish Montrealers of Point-St-Charles

[@FerraroFiction]

Irish O'Donnell family from the Point here. Still have family living there many including my uncle who won the Golden Glove of boxing around when this movie was filmed.

[@doctordisappoint9048]

As a Canadian with deep deep Irish roots in Montreal this was a lovely documentary !! Proud to say it as well 🇮🇪☘️

[@rubydawn1]

the fires were not to celebrate the queens birthday but to protest the queen and England s treatment of the Irish

[@patof72clune51]

I remember seeing that as a youth.

[@doctordisappoint9048]

100% correct

[@jasonlavoie3986]

im from the point i was 4 years old when this was made awsome stuff to see the old streets this way good job thanks for the upload

[@rubydawn1]

it can be found on NFB of Canada that is where it came from.

[@teelee3532]

Thank you for putting this up. Proud to be from Point St. Charles.

[@sunrisevideo7687]

I’m visiting and staying at the Point and wanted to learn more about Griffintown and Point St Charles. Glad I found this. Such a rich neighborhood. We should never forget the contributions of those came before us. Thanks for posting.

[@patof72clune51]

Don't forget goose village was around Victoria Bridge.

[@sunrisevideo7687]

@@patof72clune51 true. I saw a documentary on this as well and was surprised to learn about it and how it was removed in the 60s. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6PLn6R5l7Woq6M

[@user-mg4yw9yc7l]

@@sunrisevideo7687 Got to watch the goose village video . Thankyou 从 m

[@rossfuller3840]

My dad grew up in the Point a long time ago. Born in 1913 he lived on Bourgeois number 517.

[@vestanpance9461]

Been looking for this for a while. Thank you for the upload.

[@rubydawn1]

can be found at NFB of Canada many good films there

[@zeezeebigz]

Excellent documentary

[@Frank-bz2ub]

i lived for 10 years in Pointe St-Charles and i will remember for all my life !

[@martinleroux1595]

These dudes must be spinning in their graves. Nordelec is now a fashionable office building, what used to be slum apartments are now worth hundreds of thousands, chic cafés, trendy restaurants...

[@normieville594]

The double edged sword of gentrification. We get to enjoy the area now in its current form, but the original inhabitants aren't the ones to enjoy its renewal. I've had a few jobs at the Nordelec over the (recent) years, but love this video and seeing its old character.

[@rubydawn1]

strange but I always felt that it was a jewel even when many of the places were boarded up and falling apart.

[@reddwing4368]

What a beautiful magical place Reminds me too of my own home Which is also now gone

[@timoconnell7329]

The O’Connell family point St. Charles brian O’Connell 83 and still kicking

[@georgeadams5390]

Good stuff

[@Superflight777ge]

I remember Daniel's yellow 1970 superbird parked on Hibernia street like it was a regular car.

[@guyfontaine9658]

He ad few roadrunner he use to work at a paint place on congrégation street use to buy beer every day at my lunch school brake as a kid😊 good memories

[@cliffroberts1774]

Good ol Leo's Boys banquets ☘️☘️

[@philipperiopel1911]

Love those old Mack's fire trucks, the best they had!💪🚒

[@rosie4truth464]

I'm proud to be from the point and I'll always be a point girl! 😉👍🇨🇦

[@warmlantern0000]

At 3:57 STARSKI AND HUTCH

[@michaelg9]

Percy Whitton sent me this video, he grew up there and still loves the place.

[@rubydawn1]

Have to say Frank Hanley was so cool

[@Laughandsong]

He was a corrupt idiot. My grandfather knew him personally ( he had a butcher shop on Centre Street) and could not stand that weazel.

[@rubydawn1]

@@Laughandsong lol I believe you straight from the hood

[@bloodsweatandbeers9670]

I lived in point st Charles 7 yrs ago

[@spurs541]

The boxer talking definitely a paddy 🍀😀

[@Bran08Eman]

Hard working people pay homage to the country that saved them from certain starvation. If some are offended, get over it. We have no time for entitled people.

[@Bran08Eman]

@@bingodeluxe Potato Famine caused many Irish to flee to Canada and make their home in Point St-Charles. Because of Provincial politics, it is frowned upon to be openly patriotic to Canada. The patriotic song in the film is a testament to their love of country. Just too many entitled people especially in Quebec that trample on others' rights and freedom. Point out this disparity solicits a list of Canada's crimes to Quebec. True or not, it provides immense political leverage.

[@marycahill546]

15% of Canadians claim Irish descent. I'm one of them.

[@kazkazimierz1742]

I worked in the Point for Northern Electric for one year in 1970-71. It was quite a place.

[@joevette6290]

I remember on Queens holiday in pointe it was a free for all!!! Not much store looting but lots of laneway garbage fires and if you drove down a crowded street your car got picked up by 25 peopleand bounced around!!!!!!🤣🤣🤣

[@rubydawn1]

Irish way of saying to hell with the Queen and England.

[@Post-Beak-Break_Ortega]

🍀♥️🍀

[@RommelsAsparagus]

What's the Point like these days?

[@rubydawn1]

still amazing but I loved it even when it was slums

[@quiricomazarin476]

St.Anne's parish

[@jojolala6182]

My old neighborhood, born and raised. I left. Miss the old days.. not what its become. Go woke, go broke! Very sad.

[@fergspan5727]

The rickshaw story for the Asian vote lol

[@yveslorange2689]

the dark side of canadians colonialism

[@edfast5893]

Why?

[@edfast5893]

@@bingodeluxe it could have been American or Spanish

[@edfast5893]

@@bingodeluxe I took Canadians to be 60/40 English/ French colonists History is full of horrible expansionism.

[@edfast5893]

@@bingodeluxe They were all horrible, the worst part it is still happening. Africa and even New Caledonia.