WALKING THE EUROPEAN STREETS OF MONTREAL

STOP NUMBER ONE: Windsor Station. Built by CPR, houses a WWI statue for all of those lost who worked for the railroad

STOP NUMBER TWO: ST GEORGE’S ANGLICAN CHURCH - DE LA GAUCHETIERE AND PEEL - BUILT IN 1870, ITST MONTREAL’S SECOND ANGLICAN CHURCH - ENGLISH GOTHIC REVIVAL - CEILING BEAMS ARE SECOND ONLY TO WESTMINSTER ABBEY I SPAN - TAPESTRY ORIGINATES FROM LONDON, USED DURING CORONATION OF QEII - WAR MEMORIAL WINDOW (1949 ANGELS REPRESENTS NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE)

STOP NUMBER 3: PLACE DU CANADA - MARRIOT  CHATEAU CHAMPLAIN HOTEL LADIES BATHROOM ON FLOOR 23

STOP NUMBER 4: DORCHESTER (DOMINION SQUARE) - FIRST UNDERGROUND GARAGE 1878 - USED TO BE A CEMETERY -
BELFORT STATUES

STOP NUMBER 5: SUN LIFE BUILDING - METCALFE AND RENE LEVESQUE - LARGEST SQ FOOTAGE BUILDING IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1931 - BUILD IN 3 STAGES - 33rd President HARRY TRUMAN WROTE IT WAS HIS FAVOURITE BUILDING - DURING WWII OPERATION FISH WHERE BRITAIN’S GOLD RESERVES WERE STORED (UNTIL SHIPPED TO OTTAWA)

STOP NUMBER 6: MARY QUEEN OF THE WORLD - 1/8 SCALE TO ST PETER’S IN VATICAN - THIRD LARGEST CHURCH (1. ST JOSEPH’S AND 2.ST ANNE DE BEAUPRE) - 1894 “ST JAMES” - LARGEST CHURCH IN QUEBEC AT THE TIME - INSTEAD OF 12 APOSTLES (LIKE ST PETER’S), THESE ARE THE 13 PATRON SAINTS OF MONTREAL PARISHES THAT DONATED
BALDACCHINO IS A REPRODUCTION OF BERNINI’S - STATUE OF MARY IS MADE BY SYVIA DAOUST - HISTORICAL PAINTINGS OF MARGUERITE D’YOUVILLE (HOSPITAL), MARGUERITE BOURGEOUYS (TEACHER), MARTYRS BREBEUF (IROQUOIS) - COFOUNDERS COMEDY, MAISONNEUVE AND JEANNE MASSE AT THEIR JESUIT MASS, SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN

STOP NUMBER 7: OLYMPIC HOUSE  PHILLIPS/RENE-LEVESQUE

STOP NUMBER 8: ST PATRICK’S BASILICA - IRISH IMMIGRANTS 1847 FIRST MASS, GOTHIC REVIVAL- FLEUR DE LYS AND SHAMROCKS AND MARBLE COLUMNS - PEW 240 WAS USED BY THOMAS DARCY MCGEE (FATHER OF CONDERATION ASSASSINATED IN OTTAWA),  EMILE NELLIGAN (POET) WAS BAPTIZED 1879 (PLAQUE AT THE BACK)

STOP NUMBER 9: WORLD TRADE CENTRE “HORIZONTAL SKYSCRAPER”- ST ALEXANDRE AND SAINT ANTOINE - BERLIN WALL GIVEN IN 1992 AND FRENCH GUIBAL 18TH CENTURY FOUNTAINS

STOP NUMBER 10: SQUARE VICTORIA -1813 (NAMED FOR VIST OF KING EDWARD VII 1860)- HER STATUE - METRO SIGN - FRENCH FOUNTAIN ART NOUVEAU (HECTOR GUIMARD)

STOP NUMBER 11: PLACE ROYALE - 1605 SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN SET UP A FURTRADING POST

STOP NUMBER 12: VILLE MARIE 1642 SETTLED WITH MAISONNEUVE (FROM CHAMPAGNE) AS FIRST GOVERNOR

STOP NUMBER 13: NELSON’S COLUMN - 1809 OLDEST MONUMENT

STOP NUMBER 14: BONSECOUR MARKET - CHARLES DICKENS VISITED WHEN IT WAS A BRITISH-AMERICAN HOTEL. Kitty corner is L'usine de spaghetti 273 rue St Paul E:  In May 1842, in the back room of this Italian restaurant, Mr. Charles Dickens wrote the notes for "A Tales of Two Cities"(based on London and Paris)