A long history
The first large church in the colony of Ville-Marie was built along Rue Notre-Dame. As early as the 1720s, people would come to watch military manoeuvres on the "Place d'Armes" next door. The square was laid out after the church was replaced by a new basilica. |
![Place dArmes, 1928](../images/16_p03a.jpg) Place d'Armes as seen by R. A. Sproule in 1828, before the old church was torn down. |