Maison Alcan (English: Alcan House) is a building complex located on Sherbrooke Street in the Golden Square Mile district of Montreal , Canada. The complex was used to house the world headquarters for Alcan , now part of Rio Tinto Alcan , until 2015. Completed in 1983, the complex's integration of new construction with restored or renovated buildings marked a turning point in corporate Montreal's approach to development.
16-740: Maison Alcan combined restored Golden Square Mile properties — Atholstan House, the Beique, the former Berkeley Hotel, the Holland House, as well as the Salvation Army 's Montreal Citadel on Drummond Street — with a new aluminum-clad structure, known as the Davis Building. The Berkeley Hotel serves as the main entrance to the complex and its atrium , on Sherbrooke Street. According to the La Presse newspaper, Maison Alcan marked
32-606: A feature-oriented weekly, emphasizing feature writing, recipes, fiction, cartoons and, increasingly, illustrations and photographs over news items. In 1925, Graham sold the paper, along with other media properties including the Montreal Star , to John Wilson McConnell . The Standard was available in Montreal as a free weekend supplement to the Montreal Star and nationally through subscription and newsstands and
48-732: A journalist, who published the Commercial Advertiser , and afterwards the Evening Telegraph in Montreal. In 1865, he was appointed Secretary-Treasurer of the Gazette Printing Company . In 1869, along with George T. Lanigan and perhaps journalist Thomas Marshall (his role is disputed), he founded the Evening Star (later The Montreal Star ), a one-cent daily. At first the Star' s specialty
64-703: The Montreal Standard , which catered to Montreal's urban population. He also gained control of the Montreal Herald , a liberal daily, and was president of the Montreal Star Publishing Company. Graham's publishing business prospered and he became one of the most powerful media executives in Canada. His newspapers' editorials greatly influenced the federal government's decision in 1900 to send troops to participate in
80-702: The British offensive in the Second Boer War . In 1905, Graham expanded his publishing business with the establishing of the Montreal Standard newspaper. In 1908, he was knighted by King Edward VII and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Law (LL.D.) by the University of Glasgow . In May 1917 he was created Baron Atholstan , of Huntingdon in the Province of Quebec in the Dominion of Canada and of
96-618: The Weekend Picture Magazine (later simply the Weekend ), which was distributed across Canada as a weekend supplement to local newspapers. As Weekend the publication focussed on feature writing, photography and comics and dropped the Standard's news and fiction components. Notable contributors to the newspaper include Mavis Gallant , who was on staff as a feature reporter from 1944 to 1950, and Lawrence Earl , who
112-677: The 77-year-old Lord Atholstan sold his publications to John W. McConnell . In 1936, he donated the Atholstan Trophy , emblematic of cricket supremacy in eastern Canada, and in 1924 the Atholstan Trophy to the Canadian Football (Soccer) Association. Eventually this trophy was awarded to the champions of the National Soccer League of Canada from 1926 to 1941 and then from 1947 to 1950, when it
128-598: The City of Edinburgh, by King George V . This granting of a peerage title to Graham was the final impetus for the drafting of the Nickle Resolution , which requested the Sovereign to cease granting knighthoods and peerage titles to Canadian subjects. On August 9, 1917, Lord Atholstan's country residence was dynamited by radicals opposed to Canada's military conscription—an issue that Graham supported. In 1925,
144-886: The building and relocated to the Deloitte Tower , which is located between Windsor Station and the Bell Centre . In June 2016, Alcan sold the complex to Nacla General Partner Inc. for $ 48 million. After plans to turn the location into condos and build a 30-story office building fell through, Maison Alcan was classified as a heritage immovable by the Ministry of Culture and Communications on 23 February 2017. 45°30′02″N 73°34′38″W / 45.5006°N 73.5772°W / 45.5006; -73.5772 Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan Hugh Graham, 1st Baron Atholstan (July 18, 1848 – January 28, 1938), known as Sir Hugh Graham between 1908 and May 1917,
160-620: The first time a major corporation based in Montreal had sought to preserve historic properties as part of a new headquarters. In contrast to the controversial demolition of the nearby Van Horne Mansion , Maison Alcan preserved part of the architectural heritage of the Golden Square Mile. Maison Alcan was designed by the Montreal-based architectural firm of Arcop (Architects in co-partnership), with Ray Affleck as lead architect. Peter Rose collaborated with Peter Lanken on
176-450: The interior planning and design. In May 2011, it was reported that Rio Tinto Alcan was looking to sell Maison Alcan and move to new headquarters, due to the cost of renovating the building for a smaller workforce—and with the historic status of four of the seven buildings possibly complicating renovations. The complex was listed by real estate brokers Cushman & Wakefield , with a $ 30 million minimum bid. In 2015, Alcan moved its HQ from
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#1732780183305192-648: Was a Canadian newspaper publisher. Born in Athelstan, Canada East (now Hinchinbrooke , Huntingdon County , Quebec ), Graham was the son of Robert Walker Graham, a Scottish land owner, and his wife, Marion Gardner (d.1874), daughter of Colonel Thomas McLeay Gardner (1792-1854), of Edinburgh and Huntingdon. He was educated at the Huntingdon Academy until the age of fifteen. After terminating school, he served his apprenticeship as office boy and later business manager under his uncle, E. H. Parsons ,
208-604: Was a national weekly pictorial newspaper published in Montreal , Quebec , founded by Hugh Graham . It operated from 1905 to 1951. The Standard began publishing in 1905 as a Saturday-only newspaper modelled on the Illustrated London News , a format that continued throughout World War I and World War II . Over time, the Standard reduced its size from broadsheet to tabloid , and it became more of
224-590: Was a rival to the Toronto-based Star Weekly . In 1947, the Standard wooed away popular cartoonist Jimmy Frise from the Star Weekly , but as the Star Weekly retained the rights to the name of Frise's popular Birdseye Center comic strip, the cartoon was renamed Juniper Junction . Another comic strip, "Doug Wright's Family", was launched at the Standard in 1949. In 1951, the Standard changed its publishing format and relaunched as
240-711: Was retired. He died on January 28, 1938. Graham married Annie Beekman Hamilton in 1892, with whom he had a daughter, Alice Hamilton Graham. Because he had no male issue, on his death in 1938 the Barony of Atholstan became extinct. His home in Montreal's Golden Square Mile on Sherbrooke Street was incorporated into the Maison Alcan complex in 1983. He is interred with his wife in the Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal. Montreal Standard The Montreal Standard , later known as The Standard ,
256-504: Was sensational news and scandals, and did not win favour with the educated public of Montreal. After it gained good circulation among workers, Graham, with some business ability, gradually changed it into a respected, powerful, and lucrative newspaper. Graham soon acquired full control of the paper. Later Graham founded two weeklies, the Family Herald and Weekly Star , with a national circulation in rural districts, as well as
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