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Little St. James Street 

Little St. James Street,
east of Place d'Armes, still has two buildings that were once home to French-Canadian (today we would say "Quebec") financial institutions. In 1908, the National Bank of Canada took over and added to a building (No. 59) originally erected in 1870 for the Scottish Life Insurance company. Then, in 1926, it transferred the building to the La Prévoyance insurance company.


Scottish Life

Banque du Peuple
 
 
 

The Banque du Peuple, for its part, located its head office in the neighbouring building (No. 55), that first went up in 1873 and was added to in 1894. Thus there was a modest but complete network of financial companies under French-Canadian control, whose growth was reflected in the tower of the National Bank of Canada, built in 1965-1967 in Place d'Armes.

The Bank of Montreal 

Competing for prestige 

Splendid sculptures 

The World Trade Centre 

Rue Saint-Jacques 
 

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