A group of men and women decided to settle on a tip of land on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. That was in 1642 and the start of the area’s urbanization. Here are 2 and a half photographs from a short working visit to Old Montreal, the settlement that expanded and transformed to the bourgeois centre of the city in the 19^th century, the heart of the metropolis in the early 20^th century and is now the historic city centre.

View near the Canadian Bank of Commerce Building in Old Montreal

The old holds its own as lines of the current era emerge.

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