Jonathan Cohen's photos with the keyword: rue City-Councillors

1 Place Ville-Marie is a 188 m (617 ft) with 47-storey, cruciform office tower built in the International style in 1962. Place Ville-Marie was one of the first designs of Henry N. Cobb and I. M. Pei, who was later to become a famous master of Modernist architecture. Mayor Jean Drapeau chose the name himself. Ville-Marie was the name of the French settlement founded at what is now Montreal in 1642. Place Ville-Marie is arguably the most distinctive building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Along with an underground shopping mall, it forms the nexus of Montreal’s Underground City, the world’s largest, with indoor access to over 1,600 shops, restaurants, offices and businesses, as well several metro stations in Montreal, a suburban transportation terminal, and tunnels extending all over downtown. A rotating beacon on the rooftop (turning counter-clockwise) lights up at night, illuminating the surrounding sky with up to four white horizontal beams that can be seen as far as 50 km away. The brown brick building in the foreground is the Bay department store. It was built as the flagship store of Morgan’s (formally Henry Morgan & Company) – a Montreal-based Canadian department store chain. At its peak, the company had stores in Quebec and Ontario. The first Morgan’s store was opened in Montreal in 1845 by Scottish immigrant Henry Morgan. Morgan’s was purchased in 1960 by Hudson’s Bay Company.

I can't help the eerie feeling that I look a lot like the bearded man in the foreground of this mural. But the mural dates from 1996 and I look this way in 2014!

This mural seems to depict a romanticized view of Place Jacques-Cartier, a public square in Old Montreal as it may have appeared in Victorian times. In 1723, the Château Vaudreuil was built for Philippe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil - it's formal gardens occupying the space that is now the square. The Chateau burned down in 1803 and it was suggested by The Hon. Jean-Baptiste Durocher and The Hon. Joseph Périnault that the space be transformed into a public square, known as New Market Place. In 1809, Montreal's oldest public monument was raised there, Nelson's Column. In 1847, the square was renamed in honour of Jacques Cartier, the explorer who claimed Canada for France in 1535. The French Second Empire structure depicted in the right-hand background is the Montreal City Hall which was constructed between 1872 and 1878. The mural is one of several located in a courtyard on Sherbrooke Street, adjacent to the Delta Hotel. The hotel has planted an urban garden whose trees have almost obscured the murals, which are falling victim to the rigours of the Montreal winter.

This mural seems to depict a romanticized view of Place d'Armes, a public square on Notre-Dames Street, as it may have appeared in Victorian times.In those days, Notre Dame Street was Montreal's major street. In the background are the twin spires of Notre-Dame Basilica. Place d'Armes is 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 Sulpician Fathers, then later renamed Place d'Armes in 1721 when it became the stage of various military events. From 1781 to 1813, it was used as a hay and wood market, then developed as a Victorian garden after it was acquired by the city in 1836. The mural is one of several located in a courtyard on Sherbrooke Street, adjacent to the Delta Hotel. The hotel has planted an urban garden whose trees have almost obscured the murals, which are falling victim to the rigours of the Montreal winter.