The Old man-Montreal is a Historical quarters of the town of Montreal located in the district of City-Marie.

Situation

It is located inside the quadrilateral formed by the street McGill at the west, the street Saint-Anthony in north, the Rue Berri in the east and the Fleuve the St. Lawrence in the south. This includes the Old man-Port of Montreal.

History

The site of origin of the town of Montreal is precisely known. It is about the Place of Youville, where is nowadays the museum Point-with-Callière. It is at this precise place that will établiera, in a fort, the Société Notre-Dame of Montreal for the conversion of the savages into News-France, company created by the sulpicians Jean-Jacques Olier and Jerome Royer, sior of Dauversière in 1642. Because of floods, it will have to cross on the other side of the Rivière Saint-Pierre. The fort was built by Maisonneuve, they are the places of foundation of Montreal. In fact the Soeurs of Montreal, directed by Jeanne Mance will build and administeront the first hospital of Montreal, the Hôtel-Dieu of Montreal.

In 1663, the Sulpiciens become the Seigneur S of Montreal. It is the Régime seigneurial. The king of France seizes power on the colony. He their gives the island of Montreal provided that those hold Feux and places and ensure the development by the culture. In 1665, the king sends a Milice of 1200 men, the regiment Carignan-of-Salt box. Are the Sulpiciens which organize the Seigneurie S in the center of the island. The first streets are traced, of which the Rue Notre-Dame, the street Saint-Paul and the street Saint-Jacob. Others will be added to the number with time. Lastly, the buildings of the time are the Hôtel-Dieu of Montreal, the Vieux Seminar of Saint-Sulpice and the Notre-Dame church which will be replaced later by the Basilique Notre-Dame.

The old fortifications of Montreal, set up in 1717 by Gaspard Chaussegros de Léry, engineer of the king, and demolished at the beginning of the 19th century, mark the borders of Montreal at the time. One fears to be invaded by the British. The fortifications are built besides in order to envisage a future intramural enlarging. Of course, the walls protect from possible attacks of the enemy; but one faces another main issue of the time. A great concentration of houses out of wooden twinned by means of heating (with the wood stove) was the cause of many fires devastators. In 1721, Montreal then receives a royal decree of France to the effect which it was interdict to build out of wood. The buildings will have to be then of Maçonnerie. Only the rich person of the time and the religious communities will be able permettrent themselves to build out of stone, the others will have to leave the fortifications to settle in the Faubourgs. Montreal extends then in the suburbs Quebec in the east, Of Récollets to the west and Latin in north.

Attractions

Centers of interest in the vicinity

Some museums there are found: Point-with-Callière, Castle Ramezay, museum of archeology of the Vault Our-Lady-of-Good-Help, etc

Old man-Montreal counts nothing any more but seven buildings dating from the French mode (which ends in 1763); the Old Seminar of Saint-Sulpice (1684), the old General hospital (1693), the castle Ramezay (1705), the House Clement-Sabrevois de Bleury (1747), the House Brossard-Gauvin (1750), a small dependence associated with the unit “Papineau House” nonaccessible by the street (1752) and the House Dumas (1757).

The subway station more close is the subway Field-of-March.

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