Montreal skyline, on 04 April 2012

 

Visiting the Alexis Nihon Plaza on 27 March 2009

 

Dominion Square, 28 January 2013

How the city looked in January 2013 . . . 

Dominion Square in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was renamed Dorchester Square in 1987. The name change was made to honor Guy Carleton, Baron of Dorchester, who the boulevard was originally named after.  

Some of us prefer to call it Dominion Square, it's original name. 

The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel

Mary, Queen of the Word Cathedral

Dominion Square, the Sun Life Building on the right

St. George's Anglican Church

Windsor Station, former head office of the CPR; on right is 
St. George's Anglican Church

Windsor Station

St. George's Anglican Church

The Sun Life Building, centre

30 December 2011, downtown Montreal

 

Restaurant Julien

The Bay in the distance

At The Bay

At The Bay

Phillip's Square and The Bay on the left 

St. James United Church in downtown Montreal

Just a few blocks east of Phillip's Square, adjacent to Ste. Catherine Street, where Morgan's Department Store (now The Bay) was located, you will find the prestigious Saint James United Church, pictured below. For many years the front of the church was lost to view when buildings for stores were constructed here; however, a few years ago these buildings were demolished so that the original front of the church was restored to view. And what a view it is! It is a magnificent building in downtown Montreal.

Interior

Historical photographs of St. James United Church

In this photograph you can see how the front of the church 
was lost to view when buildings housing stores were constructed;
these buildings have all now been demolished.

St. James Church was hidden behind these stores; they brought
in needed revenue but they were also an eye sore.