St Clair, Port of Spain

Saint Clair is a quiet, spacious, and upscale[1] business and residential district between the Queen's Park Savannah and the Maraval River in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. It is home to most of the city's grandest and largest mansions and also home to the Magnificent Seven Houses.[2] Federation Park[3] and Ellerslie Park.[4] St Clair is one of Port of Spain's five police districts.[5]

Queen's Park Savannah, surrounded by St Clair and St James (front) and Belmont and Laventille (behind). Uptown is to the right of the park. (The image faces east.)
Queen's Royal College, one of the Magnificent Seven Houses in the St Clair neighborhood.

In 1893, St Clair was host to the Inter-Colonial Cup, a three-way cricket match between Trinidad and Tobago (then Trinidad), Barbados, and the-then British Guiana. Only white players were allowed, and that excluded most of the home side's best cricketers.[6]

References
  1. Sarah Cameron (15 September 2014). Trinidad and Tobago Footprint Focus Guide: Includes Port of Spain, Asa Wright Nature Centre, Scarborough. Footprint Travel Guides. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-909268-35-7.
  2. "Queen's Royal College (Main Block) — National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago".
  3. Trevor M. Millett (1 January 1993). The Chinese in Trinidad. Inprint Caribbean.
  4. Caribbean yearbook. 1979.
  5. "As bloodshed continues, cops report that Port of Spain is safer".
  6. Harry Pearson (17 August 2017). Connie: The Marvellous Life of Learie Constantine. Little, Brown Book Group. p. 24. ISBN 978-1-4087-0571-1.

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