Saint-Henri: the south-west and the canal edge
Gabrielle Roy's working-class south-west — the square, the antiques, the canal, the new cafés. This is a Claude-drafted route awaiting the editor's walk.

1. Place Saint-Henri
Start at the old heart of the quarter, the square Gabrielle Roy set her 1945 novel Bonheur d'occasion around. The metro spills you out beside it; read the place first, the railway and the church towers, before you walk.

2. Église Saint-Henri / Place Saint-Henri church
The neighbourhood church anchors the square — its spire is the one you saw from the platform. You don't have to go in; the point is how the whole working-class quarter was built to face it.

3. Rue Notre-Dame Ouest — the antiques row
The long commercial spine, and the run of antique and second-hand dealers it's known for. Drift east; the windows are the walk here, brass and old radios and furniture nobody made after 1960. Browsing is expected.

4. A Notre-Dame café
The gentrifying end of the street has filled with coffee places among the antique shops. Pick one for a flat white and a window seat; the new Saint-Henri and the old one share the same block, which is the whole story.

5. The Lachine Canal towpath
Cut south to the canal that powered the quarter's factories, now a green walking-and-cycling corridor along the water. Turn east on the towpath; the old industrial brick lines one bank, joggers and herons the other.

6. Marché Atwater
End at the 1933 market hall with its art-deco clock tower over the canal — produce, cheese, a butcher or two, and a lawn that runs to the water. Buy something for the walk home; Lionel-Groulx is a short block north.

Saint-Henri: the south-west and the canal edge