Ville Jacques-Cartier and the roots of Quebec's October Crisis

Ville Jacques-Quartier was a working-class suburb which has existed from 47 to 69. It was amalgamated to Longueuil in 69 and it was a very important working-class suburb. At the beginning, there were no streets, no sewers. There were fields, in fact, and the people went there to become owners of some fields and to construct, build their own house. So some of the main figures of Ville Jacques-Quartier went from this town and they developed their consciousness of inequality because there were very great inequalities between Longueuil and Ville Jacques-Quartier. Longueuil was the place where people were richer and Ville Jacques-Quartier was the place of poor people and it was very clear for some people like Pierre Vallière or the brothers Rose and also Francis Simard that there were inequality and injustice. We should remember Ville Jacques-Quartier today because it was a very original working-class suburb. There were some working-class suburbs on the southwest of Montreal but here it's on the south shore and some people went during the housing crisis after the World War II. They went here and they constructed, they built themselves their houses. They were very proud of this and it was so important, this development was so important that the little city of Longueuil decided to amalgamate with Ville Jacques-Quartier because it has literally developed greatly during its 22 years of existence.