The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Place d'Armes and the Old Seminary of Saint-Sulpice
Stand in this square and you read the whole power story in the buildings facing each other. The Old Seminary of Saint-Sulpice (1685) is the oldest building in Montreal — the Sulpicians were the seigneurs who effectively owned the island. Across the square, the Bank of Montreal's neoclassical temple announces the new Anglo-Protestant commercial power after the conquest. Maisonneuve's monument stands in the middle.
The square where conquest and commerce stare each other down — the Sulpician seminary (1685), Notre-Dame, and the Bank of Montreal, all on one plaza.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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