| montréaliste |
Mar 21, 2012 1:35 AM |
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Originally Posted by fern
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Old Montreal looks like parts of central Liverpool :cheers: thanks for sharing them with us.
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Mousquet/Except for the arrêt sign (which is beyond French) and the old highrise in the background that we sometimes see but I don't know its name. Some townhouses in there have a provincial French flair. Maybe some others look more British/Victorian or something. And the North American feeling remains striking though.
Sweet area. Of course it must be preserved.
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From the seventeenth to the end of the 18th century and beyond, french architectural vocabulary was pretty strong in Quebec architecture. From the conquest in 1759 and through the early nineteenth century, anglo, irish and scottish architects brought new styles and mixed some french elements like mansard roofs. Some Old Montreal and also fine houses in the Golden Square Mile were built from stones cut and imported from Scotland. There is a strong visual relation between Montreal and big northern english and scottish cities because of the grey stonework. The old stone house in the french style was the Marquis de Lotbinière's home. For along time, it has been the HQ of a shipping agent company; the Robert Reford Company. The area is a hodge podge of many styles of building. The old skyscraper dates back to 1928, and was the HQ of the Royal Bank of Canada. There was a hijacking of a Brinks truck in an alley next to the building in 1976 by Montreal's infamous Irish West End Gang. It is well known they did it, but no one was ever found guilty. |
