Marie Uguay, the poet, lived in this neighbourhood, and the library that bears her name serves the largest population of the Sud-Ouest: the Ville-Émard and Côte-Saint-Paul wards. The Maison de la Culture (arts centre) shares the building and is also named after the poet. This branch has taken on the duty and the pleasure of promoting poets and their works, as a way of perpetuating the memory of Marie Uguay.