History
Opened in 1845, the street owes its name to Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby (1799–1869), the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
From the 1970s, the street had been the centre of Montreal's gay village. Open since 1974 and still operating from its basement location on Stanley Street until its closing in 2009, the gay bar Le Mystique was raided by police in 1976, leading to riots. Starting in the early 1980s, Montreal's gay village relocated further east.
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