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20-453: The street address of Maison de Radio-Canada is 1400 René Lévesque Boulevard East, named for former premier René Lévesque who was once a reporter and commentator for the CBC. The building is situated near the studios of CTV ( CFCF-DT ), Noovo ( CFJP-DT ), RDS , RDS Info , MétéoMédia , LCN , and TVA ( CFTM-DT ) which are at the intersection of Papineau Avenue. The analogous facility for

40-455: A method of diffusing transit nodes, and second as an open manicured natural environment to provide rest, recreation and a healthy respite from the cramped industrial and business core immediately south of the area. After the cholera outbreak of 1851, the area had been the site for several hastily convened cemeteries of various denominations. Beginning in 1854, the City of Montreal began exhuming

60-608: A public park in order to prevent the movement of bodies of cholera victims. The following year (1870), the land was purchased and landscaping was done. In 1872, it was given the name Dominion Square . This name came from Canada, which consisted of the four provinces that make up the Canadian Confederation in 1867. In the 1870s, Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral took up its form as a one-fifth replica of St. Peter's Cathedral along De la Cathédrale forming

80-468: Is an unrelated street called Boulevard René-Lévesque on Nuns' Island in Verdun . 45°30′33″N 73°33′41″W  /  45.509097°N 73.561318°W  / 45.509097; -73.561318 Place du Canada Place du Canada (part of Dominion Square until 1967) is a large urban square in downtown Montreal . At 14,000 square metres (150,000 sq ft) it is slightly larger than

100-624: Is lined with highrise office towers. Notable structures bordering René Lévesque Boulevard include, from west to east, the former Montreal Children's Hospital , the Canadian Centre for Architecture , E-Commerce Place , 1250 René-Lévesque , CIBC Tower , Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral , the Queen Elizabeth Hotel , Place Ville-Marie , Central Station , Telus Tower , St. Patrick's Basilica , Complexe Desjardins , Complexe Guy-Favreau , Hydro-Québec Building , UQAM and

120-500: Is one of the main streets in Montreal , Quebec , Canada . It is a main east–west thoroughfare passing through the downtown core in the borough of Ville-Marie . The street begins on the west at Atwater Avenue (though see below) and continues until it merges with Notre Dame Street East just east of Parthenais Street. This boulevard is named after former sovereignist Quebec Premier René Lévesque . Much of René Lévesque Boulevard

140-670: Is open twenty-four hours per day and is bordered by René Lévesque Boulevard to the North, Peel to the East, De la Cathédrale to the West and De la Gauchetière Street to the South. Place du Canada was developed along with the present Dorchester Square between 1872 and 1876 and was formally inaugurated that year as Dominion Square. It quickly developed into a prestige address and major transportation hub, with streetcars, cabs, carriages (and by 1889)

160-478: The Canadian Pacific Railway 's Windsor Station at the southwest corner of the plaza. What had once been an informal meeting place and common green would be formalized as a pedestrian traffic corridor, linking the estates and middle class suburbs to the west and northwest with the commercial sector moving up the hill from the southeast. As an urban square, it satisfied two goals; first to provide

180-551: The Maison Radio-Canada . Former structures on the street include the Laurentian Hotel and a residential area razed to make way for the future YUL Condos residential project. All of Canada's French radio and television networks are located within a few blocks of each other, making the street French Canada's media centre. The street separates the adjacent Place du Canada and Dorchester Square . From

200-824: The CBC's English-language networks is the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto . The CBC's corporate headquarters for both languages are in Ottawa at the CBC Ottawa Broadcast Centre . The building is accessible within walking distance east of Beaudry station of the Montreal Metro . For the building itself to be built, most of the Faubourg à m'lasse working-class neighbourhood had to be demolished. On October 1, 1963,

220-482: The Dominion he first commanded. While the plaza is arranged along the skewed cardinality characteristic of Montreal, John A. Macdonald looks more west-northwest than north. The monument is purposeful; under a canopy created by the union of industry and agriculture, Canada's chief securely observes the vast expanse that awaits the command coming from Montreal. In 1967, when Canada celebrated its centennial anniversary,

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240-515: The adjacent Dorchester Square , with a more varied topography due to a downward slope towards De la Gauchetière Street . Place du Canada also differs from Dorchester Square in having manicured, though densely packed, pockets of flora arranged to impede direct lines of sight and diffuse pedestrian traffic. The French term place can roughly be translated as denoting a plaza , which has a different legal definition from squares or parks in Montreal. It

260-488: The bodies from the Saint-Antoine Catholic Cemetery to be relocated to Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery on the northeast slope of Mount Royal . This allowed for the extension of Dorchester Boulevard (now René-Lévesque Boulevard) to the west and the development of this area. Several large properties were surveyed and offered for sale. In 1869, St. George's Anglican Church was built on the along

280-515: The eastern side of the plaza. By 1889, Windsor Station would take up its prominent position at the corner of Peel and De la Gauchetière, with the plaza providing a path directly to the corner opposite. In 1895, the Macdonald Monument would be constructed under a stone baldachin in the centre of the northern third of the plaza. His baldachin is replete with copper bas reliefs of the various industrial and agricultural trades practised in

300-426: The last house was evacuated so the demolition project could go ahead to clear land for the facility. As of November 2008, consultations are underway to redevelop the area around Maison de Radio-Canada. The new plans for the eastern part of the present site includes 2000 housing units, offices, commercial space, and public spaces at 1450 René Lévesque Boulevard East, which will cover about three city blocks. Furthermore,

320-763: The new development would relink the street grid through the site, following the 1960s razing of a working-class neighbourhood popularly known as Faubourg à m'lasse to make way for the Radio-Canada complex. As of May 2015, the project was halted. The project was relaunched in November 2016, with Broccolini Group selected to construct the new building and Groupe Mach chosen to take over the existing building and reconvert it to new uses. The project finally reached completion in 2020. Ren%C3%A9 L%C3%A9vesque Boulevard René Lévesque Boulevard ( French : Boulevard René-Lévesque ), previously named Dorchester Boulevard ,

340-507: The southern portion of Dominion Square was renamed and given the name of Place du Canada . From this point, the southern and northern section of the park had different names. Place du Canada was the site of the Unity Rally , a massive political rally held on October 27, 1995, in downtown Montreal , where an estimated 100,000 Canadians from in and outside Quebec came to celebrate a united Canada, and plead with Quebecers to vote "No" in

360-405: The street was widened into an eight-lane boulevard. The name was changed in 1987 after the death of Quebec premier René Lévesque . A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount , between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name " Boulevard Dorchester ", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est , where it is known as "Rue Dorchester." There

380-578: The time of its formal naming in 1844, the street was known as "Dorchester Boulevard" in honour of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), Governor of the Province of Quebec and Governor General of Canada . As part of the Golden Square Mile , several mansions once stood on this street. Shortly after Jean Drapeau was elected mayor in 1954, his administration ordered the destruction of hundreds of buildings along Dorchester. In 1955,

400-550: The western side of the plaza, which was a former Jewish cemetery that had also relocated to Mount Royal, near the entrance of the Mount Royal Cemetery . Soon, many other Protestant denominations would build churches in the same area—beginning the trend that would establish the site as a prestige address. That same year, it was suggested that the City of Montreal purchase the former Catholic cemetery and transform it into

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