Place Jacques-Cartier

The Place Jacques - Cartier is a place in Montreal. It is located in the Old Town (Vieux -Montreal ) in the Arrondissement Ville- Marie. The course runs from the Rue Notre -Dame on the west side down with considerable slope to the Old Port on the east side. It is named after the French navigator Jacques Cartier.

Description

Diagonally opposite the western end of the 200 -meter square is the Hôtel de Ville, the city hall of Montreal. Slightly offset on the north side, separated by a small park, the Château Ramezay is. Lined the course of several business and warehouses from the first half of the 19th century, the oldest is the Maison Jacob Wurtele from the year 1804. Added to two hotels from the second half of the 19th century. A common feature of these buildings is the use of gray limestone as a building material.

The traffic space is mainly in the summer months a popular destination for tourists, with flowers and art markets, street performers, as well as numerous restaurants. In the middle of the square is Nelson's Column, a 19 meter high monument in honor of British Admiral Horatio Nelson. On the Place Jacques -Cartier, the contours of the former city wall were visualized in the floor.

History

Philippe de Rigaud de Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France, in 1721 acquired a plot of land and had built a prestigious residence, where he lived until his death in 1725. His heirs rented the house until 1760, the following governors-general. From 1773 unused the Collège de Montréal, the building, but it burned down in 1803 and was not rebuilt. The city was looking for a large enough open space to operate on a market can, and acquired the eastern half of the disused land.

Until 1808 a wooden market hall was built. In 1809 in the midst of the square erected Nelson's Column to commemorate Nelson's victory at the Battle of Trafalgar, over three decades before the more widely known London Nelson's Column. After the opening of the market hall Marché Bonsecours in 1847 the market hall on the Place Jacques -Cartier was canceled. As agreed in the assignment agreement from 1803, Place Jacques -Cartier remained but continue to exist as a market. In 1997, the city took before conversion work.