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The Ring (French: L’Anneau) is a sculpture located at the Place Ville Marie in Montréal, Canada, designed by Claude Cormier + associes and erected in June 2022. The sculpture weighs around 23,000 kilograms (51,000 lb), spans 30 metres (98 ft) and cost over CA$5,000,000 of taxpayer and private money. The sculpture is heated to prevent snow buildup, and has vibration dampers to prevent damage during high winds and earthquakes.

1253 McGill College Avenue (French: 1253 avenue McGill College) is an office building in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on the corner of McGill College Avenue and Saint Catherine Street West in Downtown Montreal. It was formerly known as the Confederation Building. It is currently owned by Polaris Realty. It is 11 stories tall, the first two floors are retail space while the top nine floors are offices. 1253 McGill College Avenue was designed in 1923 by Montreal architecture firm Ross and Macdonald and was completed in 1927. The first three stories of the exterior of the building along Saint Catherine and McGill College (from ground level to the second stringcourse), apart from its two corner entrances, retain their original limestone cladding, as does the entire elevation along Cathcart Street. The cladding above the second stringcourse along the building's north and west elevations (Saint Catherine and McGill College, respectively) were completely replaced by prefabricated concrete panels emulating the original units between 2012 and 2014. The building's architecture is considered to be Neoclassical.

The Sun Life Building (French: Édifice Sun Life) is a historic 122-metre (400 ft), 24-storey office building at 1155 Metcalfe Street on Dorchester Square in the city's downtown core of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The building was completed in 1931 after three stages of construction. It was built exclusively for the Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada. Although the then-new head office of the Royal Bank of Canada at 360 Saint Jacques Street in Montreal was taller by several floors, the Sun Life Building was at the time the largest building in square footage anywhere in the British Empire. The Sun Life Building went through three different stages of construction, the first one starting as early as 1913, but it was not until 1931 that its main 24-storey tower was erected, thus completing the project.

Operation Fish was the World War II evacuation of British wealth from the UK to Canada. It was the biggest known movement of wealth in history.

The Crystal Palace was an exhibition hall built for the Montreal Industrial Exhibition of 1860, originally located at the foot of Victoria Street (one block west of University) between Sainte-Catherine and Cathcart Streets, then relocated to Fletcher's Field. It was used for temporary exhibitions, and in winter, housed an ice skating rink.

Downtown Montreal (French: Centre-Ville de Montréal) is the central business district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Located in the borough of Ville-Marie, the district is situated on the southernmost slope of Mount Royal. The downtown region houses many corporate headquarters as well a large majority of the city's skyscrapers — which, by law, cannot be greater in height than Mount Royal in order to preserve the aesthetic predominance and intimidation factor of the mountain. The two tallest of these are the 1000 de La Gauchetière and 1250 René-Lévesque, both of which were built in 1992. The Tour de la Bourse is also a significant high-rise and is home to the Montreal Exchange that trades in derivatives. The Montreal Exchange was originally a stock exchange and was the first in Canada. In 1999, all stock trades were transferred to Toronto in exchange for an exclusivity in the derivative trading market. Place Ville-Marie, is a cruciform office tower designed by I.M. Pei. It was built in 1962, and sits atop an underground shopping mall that forms the nexus of Montreal's underground city, the world's largest. It has indoor access to over 1,600 shops, restaurants, offices, businesses, museums and universities, as well as metro stations, train stations, bus terminals, and tunnels extending all over downtown. The central axis for downtown is Saint Catherine Street, Canada's busiest commercial avenue. The area includes high end retail such as the Holt Renfrew Ogilvy department store as well as Les Cours Mont-Royal shopping centre. Other major streets include Sherbrooke Street, Peel, de la Montagne, de Maisonneuve and Crescent. The skyline may be observed from one of two lookouts on Mount Royal. The lookout at the Belvedere takes in downtown, the river, and the Monteregian Hills. On clear days the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York are visible (the great-circle distance between Mount Royal and the U.S. border along a bee line normal to the border being only ~ 56 km, or ~ 35 miles), as are the Green Mountains of Vermont. The eastern lookout has a view of The Plateau neighbourhood, Olympic Stadium and beyond. Downtown Montreal is also home to the main campuses of McGill University and UQAM and the Sir George Williams campus of Concordia University.

Place Ville Marie (PVM for short) is a large office and shopping complex skyscraper in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, comprising four office buildings and an underground shopping plaza. It serves as the main and official headquarters for Royal Bank of Canada, Canada's Largest Bank. The main building, 1 Place Ville Marie (formerly Royal Bank Tower from its anchor tenant), was built in the International style in 1962 as the headquarters for the Royal Bank of Canada, which it still is presently. It is a 188 m (617 ft), 47-storey, cruciform office tower. The complex is a nexus for Montreal's Underground City, the world's busiest, with indoor access to over 1,600 businesses, numerous subway stations, a suburban transportation terminal, and tunnels extending throughout downtown. A counter-clockwise rotating beacon on the rooftop lights up at night, illuminating the surrounding sky with up to four white horizontal beams that can be seen as far as 50 kilometres (31 mi) away. The light is not for airplanes.

The Negro Community Centre of Montreal was formed in 1927 in response to the racial discrimination experienced by the Black community. The Black population of Montreal is linked historically to descendants of Africans who were enslaved in Montreal. In the 1890s there was an influx of free Blacks arriving from the West Indies, the United States and the Maritimes to work on the construction of the railways. A meeting was held with eleven members of the Negro community in the living room of Reverend Charles Humphrey Este to find ways of improving the lives of this Black community. Rev. Charles Este, who was pastor of the West End Union United Church, the Black community's oldest religious institution, emerged as the leader of the NCC. The early Black community of Montreal had experienced severe alienation and the NCC was one of many institutions, including the Coloured Women's Club and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, created in that era to 'humanize their existence' in the city of Montreal. The NCC was accredited in 1928 by the Council of Social Agencies. In 1949, the NCC was incorporated under the letters of patent and registered with the provincial government and the welfare department of the City of Montreal. The NCC was a member of the Red Feather of Montreal [1], which provided financial support for the work of the centre and was the precursor to Centraide. The NCC began its work by renting locations in the area known as Little Burgundy. In 1930, the NCC moved to the basement of the Union United Church, located at 3007 Delisle Street. In these early years, activities also took place in the Royal Arthur School. In 1955, the NCC moved to 2035 Coursol Street. The NCC added a gymnasium, a sewing room, a kitchen, a library, and a credit union office (Walker Credit Union) to the space. In 1965, the NCC received the deed to the building. The centre offered various programs, including tutoring, mentorship, summer camps, a lunch program for school aged children, ballet, tap dance, basketball and music lessons, among many others. Jazz pianists Oscar Peterson and Oliver Jones crafted their skill on the NCC piano after school and on weekends. The Black community began to move out of Montreal in the 1960s and the city began urban renewal projects which saw the destruction of homes and claiming of lands in the neighbourhood of the NCC. One stated purpose of the renewal was to construct improved housing for low-income families. The major development was the Ville Marie Expressway on the north side of St. Antoine street which brought the destruction of over 850 homes. The city of Montreal bought 75% of the land and housing which was demolished to make way for new construction. Some families were relocated up to three times within that time. They eventually grew frustrated and moved out of the area. The result of this urban renewal was that between 1968 and 1977 thousands of Black people were relocated or forced out of Little Burgundy. This decrease in the population of Blacks in the area that was served by the NCC and dispersal of the Black population to areas like LaSalle and St. Laurent led to eventual decline in the strength of the NCC. Six decades after its inception, in 1993, the NCC ceased all activity. The organisation experienced difficulties accessing funding for its programs and maintenance cost of the building was extremely high. In April 2014, the wall of the NCC building collapsed. In November 2014, twenty years after it was last used, and after the organisation filed for bankruptcy, the NCC building was demolished. The NCC was described as a 'mainstay of Montreal's Black Community' and welcomed Nelson Mandela during his visit to Montreal in 1990. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, a citizen group issued a call for the revival of the NCC and held a march on August 1 to support the idea

Place Montreal Trust is a shopping mall in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, located west of the Eaton Centre, at the corner of Saint Catherine Street and McGill College Avenue in the city's downtown core. With over 320,000 square feet (29,729 m2) of stores and services, Place Montreal Trust attracts 14 million visitors each year. Its indoor water fountain has the highest water spout in North America at 30 metres in height. Place Montreal Trust is linked to the Underground City of Montreal. The Bell Media Tower is part of the Place Montreal Trust complex.

The Lion of Belfort (French: Le lion de Belfort) is a monument at Dorchester Square in Downtown Montreal.

Le Port-Royal (also known as Port-Royal Apartments) is an apartment building on Sherbrooke Street in the Golden Square Mile district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is 33 stories, and 122 metres (400 ft) tall. Completed in 1964, it used to be the highest residential building in Canada east of Toronto until the completion of Altitude Montreal in 2013. It was built in the modernist style, with a concrete and glass facade. Le Port-Royal is located at 1455 Sherbrooke Street West opposite Mackay Street, and next to the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul. The building consists of luxury apartments.

The Lester B. Pearson International Career Programs (LBPICP) is part of the International Department under the Lester B. Pearson School Board (LBPSB, French: Commission scolaire Lester B. Pearson) which is a Designated Learning Institution. It is one of the largest school boards on the island of Montreal and one of the nine English school boards in the province of Quebec. The Lester B. Pearson International Career Parograms caters to the Adult and Vocational Education sector. It offers a variety of vocational programs in Accounting Studies, Computing Support, Residential & Commercial Drafting, Pastry Making, Pharmacy Technical Assistance, Food and Beverage, Professional Cooking, Retail Butchery, Dental Assistance, Assistance Nursing, etc. across six Adult & Vocational Education Centres in Montreal, Quebec. Vocational programs are recognized as Post-Secondary education by the Ministry of Immigration and Cultural Communities (MICC, French: Immigration et Communautés Culturelles Québec).