Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Montreal
4 notable people grew up or lived in and around Montreal. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Leonard Cohen1934–1951
📍 Belmont Avenue, Westmount, Montreal, QC H3Y, Canada
I grew up at 599 Belmont Avenue in Westmount, in a comfortable Jewish family on the slopes of Mount Royal in Montreal. My father, Nathan, ran the family clothing business, and my…
Mario Lemieux1965–1981
📍 Ville-Émard, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mario Lemieux was born in Montreal in October 1965 and grew up in a red-brick house on rue Jogues in Ville-Émard, a working-class, French-speaking neighbourhood in the south-west of the…
Oscar Peterson1925–1945
📍 Little Burgundy, Montreal, QC, Canada
I was born in Montreal in August 1925, the fourth of five children of Daniel Peterson, who had come from the British Virgin Islands and worked as a porter for the Canadian Pacific Railway…
Pierre Trudeau1919–2000
📍 Montreal, Quebec, Canada
I was born Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau on the 18th of October 1919 in Montreal, Quebec, the son of a French-Canadian lawyer and a Scottish-Canadian mother. Montreal gave me…