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Coordinates: 45°3008N 73°3418W / 45.502181°N 73.571778°W / 45.502181; -73.571778
 

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McGill College Avenue
View from Place Ville Marie.
Native nameavenue McGill College (French)
LocationBetween Roddick Gates and Place Ville Marie
Major
junctions
R-138 Sherbrooke Street
Construction
Construction start1857

McGill College Avenue (officially in French: avenue McGill College) is a street in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Named for McGill University, the street was widened in the 1980s and transformed into a scenic avenue with McGill's Roddick GatesonSherbrooke Street at its north end and the Place Ville Marie plaza at its south end.

History

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McGill College Avenue in 1869, following a snow storm, looking south from Sherbrooke Street.

The street was first laid out in 1857, on the axis leading up to the original McGill College Building, now the Arts Building of McGill University. Proposals to widen McGill College date back to at least 1952, when the French architect Jacques Greber submitted a design to the City of Montreal.[1]

In 1983, the plan to widen McGill College as a scenic avenue was imperiled by a proposal to house a concert hallinPlace Montreal Trust, with a design for an office tower that would have partially obstructed the view of Mount Royal. The plan encountered public opposition, including from architectural activist Phyllis Lambert, a member of the board of directors of Cadillac Fairview, the project's developer. This idea of a concert hall on McGill College was abandoned in favour of a design for Place Montreal Trust with a wider setback.[2] Montreal's concert hall would instead be built further east, as part of the Place des Arts complex.

Structures

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The Illuminated Crowd., "La_Foule_illuminée [fr]".

Only four blocks in length, buildings along McGill College include 1981 McGill College 1253 McGill College, 1501 McGill College, Place Montreal Trust and its adjoining Bell Media Tower, 2000 McGill College and Centre Eaton. Public art on the street includes the sculpture The Illuminated CrowdbyRaymond Mason, in front of 1981 McGill College.[3] The Mount Royal Tunnel runs directly under the avenue.[4]

Events

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Photo exhibit on McGill College.

During the summer, the west sidewalk is the site of photography exhibitions by the nearby McCord Museum.[5]

Since 2001, the street has been the site of the Montréal Fashion and Design Festival, which takes place each year in early August.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Fiche du Secteur: Rue Sherbrooke Ouest (Campus McGill)". Grand répertoire du patrimoine bâti de Montréal (in French). City of Montreal. June 4, 2007. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
  • ^ Kolber, Leo; L. Ian MacDonald (2003). Leo, a life. Montreal, Que.: McGill-Queen's University Press. pp. 163–164. ISBN 978-0-7735-2634-1. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  • ^ "Square Dorchester & Downtown". National Geographic. Archived from the original on March 7, 2008.
  • ^ OpenStreetMap
  • ^ "Configurations: Photographic Memory on McGill College Avenue". McCord Museum website. Archived from the original on June 26, 2008.
  • ^ Lafrance, Annie (July 28, 2011). "La mode dans la rue" (French). Le Soleil. Quebec City. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
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