Pointe-Saint-Charles: the Irish quarter and the river
The old Irish-and-rail quarter — row houses, one of Montreal's oldest farmhouses, the canal and the river. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Charlevoix station
Start at the Green-line metro on the edge of the Pointe. Walk south into the grid; this was a railway-and-factory quarter, and the streets still run tight and low the way the workers' housing was built.

2. The row houses of Rue Sébastopol / Rue Favard
The oldest workers' terraces in the neighbourhood, brick rows thrown up for the railway labourers in the 19th century. Walk a couple of streets slowly; the scale is the history — small doors, shared walls, the whole quarter built to house the yards.

3. Maison Saint-Gabriel
A stone farmhouse from the 1660s, one of the oldest buildings on the island, kept as a museum of New France with its garden and barn. Even from outside the grounds it's a jolt — three centuries older than everything around it. Worth the time inside if it's open.

4. Parc de la Congrégation
A green breathing space among the terraces, the kind of local park where the Pointe's revival shows — community gardens, families, the neighbourhood using its own ground. Sit a moment before the turn to the water.

5. The Lachine Canal / riverfront edge
Walk to the canal and the strip of riverfront park along the Saint Lawrence, where the working water that made the Pointe is now a place to walk. The view opens to the river and the bridges; this is the edge the quarter was built against.

6. Back along the canal to Charlevoix
Follow the canal path north-west back towards the station, the old industrial buildings turned lofts on your right. End where you started; Charlevoix takes you out on the Green line whenever you're done.

Pointe-Saint-Charles: the Irish quarter and the river