Garment District, Montreal
Garment District
Cité de la Mode | |
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514, 438 |
The Garment District (
History
Montreal's Garment District was originally located downtown on De Maisonneuve Boulevard between Berri Street and Saint Laurent Boulevard. Furriers such as the Hudson's Bay Company and warehouses lined the streets in this area at the time.[1]
The Garment District later moved to the Mile End neighbourhood in the northernmost edge of the borough of Le Plateau-Mont-Royal. The massive 1960s buildings built by the fur traders along De Gaspé Street still stand today.
It has since moved again to its current location, along Chabanel Street. From 1964 to 1985 and running from Saint-Laurent Boulevard in the east to Meilleur Avenue in the west, eight large multi-storey buildings were built along Chabanel. The first address is 99 Chabanel (500,000 sq. ft.), followed by 111, 125, 225, 333, 433 and 555 Chabanel followed. The largest of the buildings is 333 Chabanel (approximately one million square feet) which boasts the second largest floorplate on the island of Montreal (110,000 sq. ft.) after
Chabanel in Literature
The novel The Rent Collector by B. Glen Rotchin which was a finalist for the
References
- ^ Google Books Insight Guides: Montreal & Quebec City p.104-105
- ^ NOW Toronto: "Roots runs away: Beaver-clad clothier blames feds’ Africa trade aid for west-end plant closure" (February 12-19, 2004, VOL 23 NO 24 Vasil) Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Acces Condo. "SHDM". Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-09-28.
External links
- Gilbert, Sarah (2009-02-06). "Survivor on the Main". Montreal Gazette. Canwest. Archived from the originalon 2009-02-14. Retrieved 2009-02-08.
