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The original site of Montreal in 1642, then known as Ville-Marie, is precisely known. This is the Pointe-à-Callière, a piece of land at the confluence of the St. Lawrence River and Little River. The founder, Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve, built a fort there in 1643 for the conversion of the Indians in New France.
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City Hall,
Notre-Dame Basilica,
Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecour Chapel,
Old Port of Montreal,
Old Royal Bank Building,
Place d'Armes,
Place Viger,
Pointe-a-Calliere,
Saint Sulpice Seminary,
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Old Montreal (or Vieux-Montreal in French) is the oldest area in the Canadian city of Montreal, dating back to colonial times. Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the area is usually thought of as being bounded to the west by McGill St., to the north by Saint Antoine St., and to the south by the Saint Lawrence River ...
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BONSECOURS MARKET
Bonsecours Market (Marché Bonsecours), at 350 rue Saint-Paul in Old Montreal, is a two-storey domed public market. Named for the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, it opened in 1847. Construction began in 1844 by architect William Footner, and was completed in 1860 by George Browne ...
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CENTAUR THEATRE
The Centaur Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Montreal, Quebec. It was founded in 1969 by The Centaur Foundation for the Performing Arts and is the city's largest English speaking theatre. The Centaur Theatre is located in the Old Stock Exchange Building, formerly home to the Montreal Stock Exchange ...
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CHAMP DE MARS
Champ de Mars is a public park in Old Montreal quarter of Montreal. Formerly a military parade ground, the park had previously been the site of Montreal's fortifications, which were demolished at the beginning of the 19th century soon after Montreal City Hall and the old courthouse were built ...
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CHATEAU RAMEZAY
The Château Ramezay is a museum and historic building on Notre-Dame Street in Old Montreal, opposite Montreal City Hall. Built in 1705 as the residence of then-governor of Montreal, Claude de Ramezay, the Château was the first building proclaimed as a historical monument in Quebec ...
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MONTREAL CITY HALL
The five-storey Montreal City Hall is the work of architects Henri-Maurice Perrault and Alexander Cowper Hutchison, and was built between 1872 and 1878 in the Second Empire style. It is located in Old Montreal, between Place Jacques-Cartier and the Champ de Mars, at 275 Notre-Dame Street East ...
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NOTRE DAME BASILICA
Basilique Notre-Dame de Montreal (in English, Notre-Dame Basilica) is a basilica in the historic district of Montreal, in Quebec, Canada. Specifically, it is located at 116, rue Notre-Dame ouest, facing Place d'Armes, at the corner of rue Saint-Sulpice in Old Montreal (Place-d'Armes metro station) ...
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NOTRE-DAME-DE-BONSECOURS CHAPEL
The Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel is a church in the district of Old Montreal in Montreal, Quebec. One of the oldest churches in Montreal, it was built in 1771 over the ruins of an earlier chapel. St. Marguerite Bourgeoys, the first teacher in the colony of Ville-Marie and the founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame ...
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OLD PORT OF MONTREAL
Stretching for over two kilometres along the St-Lawrence River in Old Montreal, the Old Port Of Montreal has been the social, economic and cultural soul of Montreal ever since early French fur traders used it as a trading post in 1611. It was here that the city and the port came to life more than 350 years ago ...
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OLD ROYAL BANK BUILDING
The Royal Bank building (In French: Tour de la Banque Royale) at 360 Saint-Jacques Street was built in 1926-1928 and was then the tallest building in the British Empire. The 22-storey 121-metre tower was built by the firm of York and Sawyer. In 1907 the Royal Bank of Canada moved its head office from Halifax to Montreal ...
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PLACE D'ARMES
Place d'Armes is a square in Old Montreal quarter of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The second oldest public site in Montreal, it was called Place de la Fabrique when it was first developed in 1693, at the request of the Sulpicians, then later renamed Place d'Armes in 1721 when it became the stage of various military events ...
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PLACE VIGER
Place Viger was both a grand hotel and railway station in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, constructed in 1898 and named after Jacques Viger, Montreal's first mayor. Although combined stations and hotels were common in the United Kingdom in the late 19th century, the concept was unique to Canada ...
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POINTE-A-CALLIERE
Pointe-à-Callière Museum is the Montreal museum of archaeology and history located in Old Montreal. It was founded in 1992 as part of celebrations to mark Montreal's 350th birthday. Set atop the city's birthplace, the Museum shows collections of artefacts from the First Nations of the Montreal region ...
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SAINT SULPICE SEMINARY
Saint-Sulpice Seminary is the oldest structure in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located in the historic Old Montreal district, next to Notre-Dame Basilica on Notre-Dame Street, facing the Place d'Armes square. Founded in 1657, by the Society of Saint-Sulpice, the seminary was dedicated to the education of secular priests ...
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