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Notre-Dame-de-Grâce is a residential district of Montreal located to the west of downtown; population: 68,345 (Statistics Canada, 1996).
The neighbourhood, which is known as NDG to locals, is part of the borough of Côte-des-Neiges—Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. The Eastern part of N.D.G., clustered around the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce parish church has always been a traditional francophone district. The central and Western parts were traditionally the home of middle-class anglophones, although they have a growing francophone and immigrant population. The Loyola Campus of Concordia University is located in the western part of the district, at the western extremity of Monkland Avenue.
The major commercial streets are Monkland and Sherbrooke. At the eastern end of Monkland lies the Villa Maria station of the Montreal metro and the main portal of the grounds of a private girls-only school bearing the same name.
The acronym "NDG" is often explained as meaning "No Damn Good" or "National Dumping Ground", much to the amusement of certain inhabitants of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce.