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Saint Catherine Street is the primary commercial artery of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Saint Catherine Street (now officially rue Sainte-Catherine) is the
primary commercial artery of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It crosses
the central business district from west to east, beginning at the corner of
Claremont Avenue and De Maisonneuve Boulevard in the city of
Westmount,
traversing the borough of Ville-Marie, and ending on Notre Dame Street East
just east of Viau St in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve.
The street runs parallel to the largest segments of Montreal's underground
city. The series of interconnected office tower basements and shopping
complexes that make up this main thoroughfare lie immediately north of the
street.
Educational institutions located on or near the street include
Concordia
University, McGill University,
Université du Québec à Montréal,
Dawson
College and LaSalle College.
Saint Catherine Street has been home to many of Montreal's prominent
department stores, including such former retailers as Eaton's, Morgan's,
Simpson's and Dupuis Freres. Today, the Morgan's building is home to
Hudson's Bay Company, which acquired Morgan's in 1960. The Simpson's
building is now shared by the La Maison Simons department store and a
multiplex cinema, while Eaton's was converted to the
Complexe Les Ailes.
Dupuis Freres, located further east at Saint Catherine and Saint Hubert, is
now a shopping mall and office complex.
The Ogilvy's department store remains a fixture on Saint Catherine, although
it is now a collection of boutiques rather than a single store.
Other major retailers along the street including an
Apple Store,
Indigo
Books and Music, Chapters,
HMV Group,
Archambault,
La Senza,
Future Shop,
Roots, Adidas,
Puma, Guess,
Parasuco,
Zara, Mango and an
H&M flagship store
at the corner of Peel and Saint Catherine. Additionally, many of Montreal's
most prominent shopping complexes, including the
Centre Eaton,
Complexe Les
Ailes, Place Montreal Trust, Promenades Cathédrale, les Cours Mont-Royal (a
high fashion shopping mall), the Complexe Desjardins, Place Dupuis,
Place
Alexis-Nihon, the Faubourg Sainte-Catherine and Westmount Square are all
located along the street.
The Montreal Forum, once home to the Montreal Canadiens, is also located on
rue Sainte-Catherine at Atwater Street. It has since been turned into a
shopping and movie theatre complex called the Pepsi Forum. Due to the
Forum's presence on this street, Saint Catherine was used as the parade
route whenever the Canadiens won the Stanley Cup. This was once referred to
as the usual route by Mayor Jean Drapeau, during the Canadiens' dynasties of
the mid-century, when a win would occur quite frequently.
The segment in the district of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is also an important
commercial area in that neighbourhood.
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Centre Eaton
The Centre Eaton is a shopping mall located in downtown
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. With over 26,941.9 m2 (290,000 sq ft) of leasable
floor area, the Centre Eaton is home to 175 shops and services, 32 restaurants
and movie theatres. Its merchant mix attracts over 19 million people annually.
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Christ Church Cathedral (Montreal)
Christ Church Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the seat of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
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Complexe Desjardins
Complexe Desjardins is a 152 m (499 ft) office, hotel
complex and shopping mall located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Opened as part of a broad scheme to develop the eastern end of downtown, it is
located in the quadrilateral formed by Saint Catherine, Saint-Urbain, and Jeanne
Mance streets, and René Lévesque Boulevard (45°30′27″N 73°33′52″W / 45.5075°N
73.56444°W / 45.5075; -73.56444).
Its innovative architectural design consists of four towers housing offices of
the Mouvement Desjardins, Quebec Government offices and other companies, as well
as the Hyatt Regency Montreal Hotel, linked by a vast atrium. This design
produces the effect of an outdoor market and square indoors.
The Complexe Desjardins is connected by the underground city to Place des Arts
and the Place-des-Arts metro station to the north, and the Complexe Guy-Favreau,
the Palais des congrès de Montréal, and Place-d'Armes metro station to the
south.
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Complexe Les Ailes
Complexe Les Ailes is a retail and office complex on Saint
Catherine Street in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Designed by the firm Ross
and Macdonald and first constructed between 1925 and 1927, the building served
as the Eaton's department store until 1999. Until its recent conversion to a
shopping and office complex, it was the largest store in Quebec, and the second
largest in Canada. For many years, the Montreal Eaton's store and Eaton's
College Street in Toronto were the crown jewels of the retail chain.
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Grande Bibliothèque
The Grande Bibliothèque is a very large public library in
downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Its collection is part of Bibliothèque et
Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), Quebec's national library.
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Les Cours Mont-Royal
Les Cours Mont-Royal is an upscale shopping centre in
Downtown Montreal, Quebec which was converted from the former Mount Royal Hotel.
Since 1988, Les Cours Mont-Royal has provided exclusive boutiques offering
designer brands and unique fashions and accessories for both men and women in a
prestigious shopping environment.
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Place Alexis Nihon
Place Alexis Nihon is a 2,400,000 square feet (222,967 m2)
complex in Downtown Montreal, Quebec (on the border with Westmount), consisting
of a shopping centre, two office towers, and a residential building. The
shopping mall is directly connected to the Atwater metro station, which joins
the building by a short tunnel with the adjacent Dawson College, and by a longer
one adjoins nearby Westmount Square.
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Place des Arts
Place des Arts is a major performing arts centre in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located in the eastern part of the city's downtown,
between Ste-Catherine and de Maisonneuve Streets, and St-Urbain and Jeanne-Mance
streets, in an area now known as the Quartier des Spectacles, the complex is
home to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and the
Opéra de Montréal.
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Place Montréal Trust
Place Montréal Trust is a shopping mall and skyscraper in
Downtown Montreal, located west of the Eaton Centre, at the corner of Saint
Catherine Street and McGill College Avenue. With over 320,000 square feet
(29,729 m2) of stores and services, Place Montreal Trust attracts 14 million
visitors each year. Its indoor water fountain has the highest water spout in
North America at 30 meters in height. Place Montreal Trust is linked to the
Underground City of Montreal.
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Promenades Cathédrale
Promenades Cathédrale is a major retail complex on Saint
Catherine Street in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Originally named
Promenades de la Cathédrale, the complex is located beneath Montreal's Anglican
Christ Church Cathedral. It was constructed in conjunction with the Place de la
Cathédrale (now called the Tour KPMG) office tower, which it is also underneath.
Constructed in 1987, the mall is integrated into the underground city. Its
construction involved ground-breaking civil engineering as well as modifications
to the McGill metro station.
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Quartier des Spectacles
Quartier des Spectacles is an entertainment district
located in the eastern section of Downtown Montreal. The area is currently
undergoing gentrification and urban renewal that will turn it into the centre
for Montreal's cultural events and festivals. With a total area of almost a
square kilometre, its boundaries are City Councillors Street, Berri Street,
Sherbrooke Street and René Lévesque Boulevard, encompassing all of the district
known as Montreal's Latin Quarter. The area will be home to 30 performance halls
totalling almost 28,000 seats, including the Place des Arts cultural complex, as
well as international festivals, art galleries and centres for the exhibition
and broadcast of alternative culture. The Quartier des spectacles hosts nearly
8,500 jobs linked to cultural activities, from education and creation to
production, exhibition and broadcasting.
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Saint James United Church (Montreal)
Saint James United Church is a heritage church in downtown
Montreal, Quebec. The French Gothic church was designed by Montreal architect
Alexander F. Dunlop. It is noteworthy for its false apse housing church offices
and for its Casavant Frères organ. When it was built in June 1889, it was the
largest Methodist church in Canada, with 2,000 seats; it was nicknamed the
"Cathedral Church of Methodism." It now belongs to the United Church of Canada,
into which the Canadian Methodists merged in 1925. Its congregation founded the
first YMCA in North America in November 25, 1851 (before the present church
building was built) and led an active campaign for women's suffrage early in the
20th century.
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St. James the Apostle Anglican Church
The St. James the Apostle Anglican Church is located in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at 1439 Saint Catherine Street West.
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