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15-482: [REDACTED] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rue Saint-Jacques . The rue Saint-Jacques (in French, literally "Saint James Street"), is a street in a number of cities, including: Rue Saint-Jacques (Montreal) , Canada Rue Saint-Jacques, Paris , France See also [ edit ] St James Street (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by

30-710: A largely industrial and large-surface commercial district at the top of the Falaise Saint-Jacques . The McGill University Health Centre superhospital fronts Saint-Jacques in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. 45°30′21″N 73°33′24″W  /  45.50595°N 73.5568°W  / 45.50595; -73.5568 Old Royal Bank Building, Montreal The Royal Bank Tower is a skyscraper at 360 Saint-Jacques Street in Montreal , Quebec . The 22-storey 121 m (397 ft) neo-classical tower

45-806: Is still notable mostly for its grand Neo-Classical buildings on the part of the street running through the Old Montreal district. These include Bank of Montreal 's domed Montreal Main Branch , the former headquarters of Royal Bank of Canada , the Canadian Bank of Commerce , the Molson Bank and the Canada Life Insurance Company . More modern buildings include the Montreal World Trade Centre and

60-615: Is the pagename Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Rue Saint-Jacques (Montreal) The street is commonly known by two names , "St. James Street" in English (after St. James's , London ) and rue Saint-Jacques in French . Both names are used in English and French, although Saint-Jacques is the most common for geographical reference. St. James Street

75-421: Is usually used in reference to the street's historic importance as a financial district. A main thoroughfare passing through Old Montreal , the street was first opened in 1672. The portion between McGill Street and place Saint Henri was originally called Bonaventure Street ( rue Saint-Bonaventure ). This name has passed down to Place Bonaventure , Bonaventure Expressway , and Bonaventure Metro station , despite

90-536: The Stock Exchange Tower . Farther west, St. Jacques Street runs through the residential neighbourhoods of Little Burgundy , Saint-Henri , Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and Lachine , as well as the suburb of Montreal West , where it is instead known as Avon Road. Square-Victoria–OACI , Lionel-Groulx and Place-Saint-Henri Metro stations are located on St. Jacques, to the west, it gives access to Autoroute 20 in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, where it passes through

105-730: The railways , public utility and canal companies obtained most of their capital financing in the United Kingdom or the United States . At the end of the War, St. James Street grew rapidly and although by the 1920s there were stock exchanges in Toronto , Winnipeg , Calgary and Vancouver , St. James Street's stock brokerage houses and the Montreal Stock Exchange were the most important in all of Canada. At

120-654: The 1990s, the Montreal Expos baseball club unveiled plans to build a new stadium in downtown Montreal, right off St. Jacques Street, just south of the Bell Centre . When provincial funding for the new building fell through, the Expos did not continue with their plan and sold the property to developers. That stretch of Saint Jacques is now undergoing considerable gentrification . Today, the stretch of St. Jacques Street between McGill Street and Saint Laurent Boulevard

135-458: The bank had bought up all the property between Saint-Jacques, Saint-Pierre, Notre-Dame and Dollard Streets to demolish all the buildings there including the old Mechanics' Institute and the ten-storey Bank of Ottawa building in order to make space for the new 22-storey building. In 1962, the Royal Bank moved its main office to another famous Montreal building, Place Ville-Marie , however kept

150-417: The disappearance of their original referents. In the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, St. James Street was the centre of Montreal's financial district and where several major English insurance, banking, and trust companies built their Canadian head offices. Prior to World War I , Canadian, provincial, and major municipal governments along with important industries such as

165-429: The same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rue_Saint-Jacques&oldid=774358362 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Commons link

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180-583: The street was home to two French-Canadian financial institutions, the Banque Canadienne Nationale and the Banque du Peuple , long gone now. A number chose to gradually move their official head offices to Toronto, Ontario , while others shifted all future expansion to Toronto or other major Canadian centres. As a result, the St. James Street financial district has all but disappeared. During

195-775: The time of its construction in 1928, the Royal Bank of Canada 's new headquarters at 360 St. James Street was the tallest building in the British Empire . The St James St. area was also the head office of the Bank of Montreal , and the informal head office of the Bank of Nova Scotia . It was also home to the major brokerage houses such as Nesbitt, Thomson and Company , Pitfield, MacKay, Ross , Royal Securities Corporation and others. Some companies, past and present, located on St. James Street are: East of Place d'Armes square,

210-507: Was at Hollis and George in Halifax in 1879. In 1907 the Royal Bank of Canada moved its head office from Halifax to Montreal . As its original building on Saint-Jacques Street turned out to be too small, in 1926 the board of directors of the biggest bank in Canada hired New York architects York and Sawyer to build a prestigious new building a short distance westward. Between 1920 and 1926

225-405: Was designed by the firm of York and Sawyer with the bank's chief architect Sumner Godfrey Davenport of Montreal. Upon completion in 1928, it was the tallest building in the entire British Empire , the tallest structure in all of Canada and the first building in the city that was taller than Montréal's Notre-Dame Basilica built nearly a century before. The bank's first official head office

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