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{{short description|Street and pedestrian zone in McGill University's downtown campus in Montréal, Canada}}
[[File:McTavish Street viewed facing south from Doctor Penfield Avenue, Oct 29 2022.jpg|thumb|McTavish Street viewed from Doctor Penfield Avenue, October 2022]]
[[File:Redpath Library in 1935.gif|thumb|McGill's [[Redpath Library]] building as seen from McTavish Street in 1935.]]
'''McTavish Street''' (officially in {{lang-fr|'''Rue McTavish'''}}) is a street in the [[Golden Square Mile]] of [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]], Canada. It is named for [[Simon McTavish (fur trader)|Simon McTavish]], whose [[Estate (land)|estate]] once covered the land about it. The street runs up the slope of [[Mount Royal]], from [[Sherbrooke Street]] at its southern end, to [[Pine Avenue]], where its end is marked by [[Sir Hugh Allan]]'s former home, [[Ravenscrag, Montreal|Ravenscrag]].
Adjoining to the main campus of [[McGill University]], as of 28 May 2010 the lower half of the street is a [[car-free zone]].<ref name="gaz">{{cite news|title=McGill students and staff take roadway's shutdown in stride|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/todays-paper/McGill+students+staff+take+roadway+shutdown+stride/3086068/story.html|access-date=31 May 2010|newspaper=[[Montreal Gazette]]|date=29 May 2010}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> Plans call for the greening of the street with additional shrubs and trees. The pedestrianization of McTavish is part of a citywide plan as well as the university's "Greening the Lower Campus" initiative.<ref name="curran">{{cite news|last=Curran |first=Peggy |title=McGill goes green on McTavish |url=http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/universitycity/archive/2010/05/27/mcgill-goes-green-on-mctavish.aspx |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119024515/http://communities.canada.com/montrealgazette/blogs/universitycity/archive/2010/05/27/mcgill-goes-green-on-mctavish.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 January 2013 |access-date=31 May 2010 |newspaper=Montreal Gazette |date=27 May 2010 }}</ref><ref name="McGill">{{cite web|title=Greening the Lower Campus |url=https://www.mcgill.ca/masterplan/lowercampus/ |publisher=[[McGill University]] |access-date=31 May 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601062637/http://www.mcgill.ca/masterplan/lowercampus/ |archive-date=1 June 2010 }}</ref>
Above [[Doctor Penfield Avenue]], the street borders the western edge of the [[McTavish reservoir]].
==See also==
*[[Mackay Street]]
==References==
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{{Streets in Montreal}}
[[Category:Pedestrian malls in Canada]]
[[Category:McGill University]]
[[Category:Streets in Montreal]]
[[Category:Downtown Montreal]]
[[Category:Mount Royal]]
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