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Héritage Montréal is delighted to welcome the new members of its Board of Directors. Their expertise, energy, and commitment will help advance our mission to protect and promote Montréal’s heritage. We are pleased to be able to count on their contributions and look forward to building the future together. Andria Carosielli leads the Carosielli Group, a family-owned business specializing in the restoration and conversion of historic buildings into event venues. Together with her family, she continues the work begun with the Rialto Theater, which was acquired in 2010 and restored to its original splendor. Guided by this vision, the group has also developed the St-James Theater and the Cartier Theater, helping to showcase these iconic Montreal landmarks and repurpose them…
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Following alerts received in early 2026, Héritage Montréal sought to understand how the remarkable interior of the former Banque d’épargne de la cité et du district de Montréal, at the corner of Sainte-Catherine West and McGill College, had been completely demolished to make way for a sportswear store. We met with representatives of the arrondissement de Ville-Marie as well as the Director of Real Estate for Canada for this international retail chain. The loss of this heritage interior is all the more troubling because, since the 1990s, the Ville de Montréal had assured us that its preservation was one of the conditions attached to the development agreement authorizing the office tower built in part above the former bank. Over the…
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On June 10, Héritage Montréal held its Annual General Meeting at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montreal. Chaired by Robert Girard, the meeting provided an opportunity to review the organization’s achievements over the past year and present its priorities for the future. Throughout 2025, Héritage Montréal celebrated its 50th anniversary, highlighting its history, accomplishments, and vision for the future. Milestones included a series of testimonial videos, a commemorative booklet, an exhibition at Château Ramezay, a special program of activities, and the October 22 Benefit Gala, which helped raise the profile of the organization’s programs. Now established as a full-fledged program, the school program enabled hundreds of Montreal students to discover the heritage of their own neighbourhoods. The…
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After much uncertainty, we are pleased to announce that, thanks to a collaboration between Héritage Montréal and the Montréal Sign Project, four signs from The Bay’s downtown Montréal store have been saved. The two larger exterior “La Baie” signs, installed nearly twenty feet above the sidewalk, were located at the corners of De Maisonneuve and Union, and De Maisonneuve and Aylmer. Two smaller signs framed the main Sainte-Catherine Street entrances facing Phillips Square. For decades, these signs helped shape the visual identity of this landmark site and of Montréal’s commercial landscape. The preservation of these iconic signs is excellent news. Yet behind these recovered letters remains the uncertain future of the building that carried them for decades. Héritage Montréal will…
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Monday june 8, 2026
Face à la convergence de crises sociale, économique et environnementale, qui touche le Québec et met sous pression nos milieux de vie et nos modèles de développement, une réalité s’impose : une grande partie du bâti de demain existe déjà. Or, ce patrimoine, qu’il soit public ou privé, ancien ou plus récent, est aujourd’hui négligé. Le vieillissement des infrastructures s’accompagne d’un déficit d’entretien important, tandis qu’un nombre croissant de bâtiments et d’ensembles, notamment patrimoniaux, sont désaffectés, vacants ou sous-utilisés, le tout créant des conditions qui peuvent amener cet actif à un point de non-retour quant à son maintien et à une valorisation viable. Cette situation contribue à une dégradation de nos milieux de vie, à une perte de valeur collective et…
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Thursday may 21, 2026
Plutôt que de faciliter la reconversion de bâtiments patrimoniaux, les règles du jeu actuelles rendent la tâche plus ardue. C'est ce que déplore Héritage Montréal dans un nouveau rapport. Prenons l'exemple d'une compagnie qui ferme ses portes et quitte un bâtiment, le laissant vacant. Les autorités déterminent que c'est un bâtiment patrimonial à protéger. Plusieurs années s'écoulent et un organisme qui se cherche de nouveaux locaux découvre le bâtiment libre et compte s'y installer. Le hic : plusieurs travaux de mise aux normes sont à effectuer en raison du statut patrimonial de l'immeuble, qui se trouve en état de décrépitude avancée, après avoir été laissé vacant trop longtemps.
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Wednesday may 20, 2026
Héritage Montréal réclame un changement d’approche afin de mieux tirer parti du parc immobilier déjà existant.
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Héritage Montréal highlights the conditions needed to safeguard and enhance built heritage through adaptive reuse. Montreal, May 20, 2026 — The Héritage Montréal Foundation is releasing today, Requalifier le patrimoine : de l’urgence à l’opportunité, a report summarizing its work since 2023 on the adaptive reuse of historic buildings and heritage complexes. Development and land-use planning have long relied on new construction. Today, we must contend with an unavoidable reality: most of tomorrow’s built and planned environment already exists. In a context shaped by an aging building stock, demographic change, and the pursuit of a socio-ecological transition, the challenge is no longer simply to protect buildings of interest through designation, but to care for them and ensure their long-term viability…
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The team is proud to have obtained funding for the Voices of Armenia in Montréal, in partnership with the vocal ensemble Les Rugissants, following the ARCHES: présence arménienne series presented this spring. Following the advisory committee’s reviews, Digital Museums Canada has selected 19 new online projects developed as part of the 2025 call for proposals. Voices of Armenia in Montréal highlights the history, culture and heritage of the Armenian community in the city. Through oral testimonies, 360° tours, visual archives, and original musical clips, the project reveals the richness of a heritage that has been too-little documented. Organized into five thematic chapters (community history, iconic places, voices and memories, urban roots, and musical heritage), the narrative explores how Armenians have shaped…
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Together for the protection of our metropolitan heritage
Heritage Montreal created Memento, a platform for citizens to speak out, raise awareness and enhance and encourage the rehabilitation of threatened heritage sites in the Montreal area. The goal is to protect the identity of the metropolis and its neighbourhoods as well as its collective and local history.
The platform lists threatened heritage sites in order to inform and mobilize citizens and public authorities. It reflects the files being followed by Heritage Montreal as well as the concerns of residents of the Montreal metropolitan area who have issued citizen alerts. The platform also offers tools to promote citizen mobilization.
© Jean-François Séguin
Musée du Montréal juif
Maison-mère des Sœurs de Sainte-Anne. Photo : Héritage Montréal. Lachine 1906 (central pavilion); 1936 and 1967
1950, Provost Street, Montréal
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Ombrages (www.ombrages.com)
Denis Tremblay, 2006 Ville-Marie 1869 (construction); 1906–1907 (modifications)
480 Saint-François-Xavier Street, Montreal
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© Shanti Loiselle, Ville de Montréal
Damien Ligiardi Photographe, 2021 Ville-Marie borough Between 1913 and 1922
2151, Fullum Street, Montréal
