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Rue Notre-Dame West


 Tour route Next section Previous section Back to Notre-Dame Est Boulevard Saint-Laurent Rue Notre-Dame West The Old Seminary and Notre-Dame Place d’Armes Rue Saint-Jacques Des Récollets Around Rue de l’Hôpital Rue Saint-Paul, near Place d’Youville Place d’Youville Western end of the Old Port Pointe-à-Callière and Place Royale Saint-Paul and de la Commune From Saint-Amable to Saint-Gabriel Place Jacques-Cartier Eastern end of the Old Bonsecours From Bonsecours to Berri Rue Notre-Dame East Champ-de-Mars
In 1672, Dollier de Casson, Father Superior of the Sulpicians, and Bénigne Basset, a notary and surveyor, drew up a plan for the streets of Montréal, incorporating those already laid out under de Maisonneuve. They planned a thoroughfare along a straight line, and dedicated it to "Our Lady," or "Notre-Dame."

Here you are visiting the central section (to the west of boulevard Saint-Laurent) of this historical artery, which has never stopped changing down through the years.

When the fortifications were still standing, prominent citizens took up residence on Notre-Dame, including explorer Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Luth (who gave his name to Duluth, Minnesota) and, slightly farther east, the Sieur de Lamothe-Cadillac, founder of Detroit, Michigan, and the Sieur de la Vérendrye, who explored the West.

 

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 Rue Notre-Dame

Office buildings, including the Duluth, on the right in this photo, and the Métropole building, farther east, opened on Rue Notre-Dame at the turn of the century. The Aldred building can be seen on the left (see section 16).

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