Golden Square Mile in Montréal, Québec — Central Canada (French-Canadian)
Mount Royal Club
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 22, 2024
1. Mount Royal Club Marker
Le Mount Royal Club
La conception du Mount Royal Club fut réalisée par Stanford White du renommé cabinet d'architectes McKim, Mead & White de New York. Il fut élevé, en 1906, à l'emplacement même des premiers locaux du Club, l'ancienne résidence du troisième Premier Ministre du Canada, Sir John Abbott.
Le nom du Club renvoie au mont Royal, le parc de la ville sur la montagne, mais il doit également son nom aux titres de noblesse de son premier président honoraire, Donald Alexander Smith, qui fut le premier baron de Strathcona et de Mount Royal.
Son importance réside dans sa conception néo-classique sévère, ses ravissantes proportions et son magnifique plan. La façade en calcaire rappelle le raffinement des palais de la Renaissance italienne.
En 1975, le gouvernement du Québec classait le Mount Royal Club monument historique.
La rue Sherbrook
À la suite du prolongement de la rue Sherbrooke vers l'ouest, depuis la rue Aylmer jusqu'à Côte-des-Neiges, dans les années 1840, cette rue est devenue une élégante avenue bordée d'arbres, d'immeubles publics
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Le temps, les travaux de démolition et les constructions nouvelles ont considérablement modifié la rue Sherbrooke. Néanmoins, les immeubles qui ont survécu constituent un témoignage éloquent de son glorieux passé. Cette excursion à pied rend hommage à ce remarquable héritage architectural.
The Mount Royal Club
The Mount Royal Club was designed by Stanford White of the renowned New York firm, McKim, Mead & White. It was erected in 1906 on the site of the Club's first premises, the former home of Sir John Abbott, Canada's third prime minister.
The name of the club refers to Mount Royal, the city's mountain park, but is also attributed to the title bestowed upon its first honorary chairman, Donald Alexander Smith, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal.
Its importance lies in its severe Classical Revival design, handsome proportions and magnificent plan. The limestone facade recalls the urbanity of Italian Renaissance palaces.
In 1975, the Government of
Mc Cord Museum of Canadian History, Notman Photographic Archives
2. Marker detail: Mount Royal Club, c. 1895
Le Mount Royal Club, vers 1895
Sherbrooke Street
After its extension west from Aylmer Street to Cote-des-Neiges in the 1840s, Sherbrooke Street grew into an elegant tree-lined avenue of public buildings and private residences, built by many of the central figures in Canada's industrial and financial development. It bisected the splendid area from the escarpment above Saint Antoine Street to the slopes of Mount Royal that became known as the Square Mile.
Time, demolition and new construction have changed Sherbrooke Street considerably, but the buildings which have survived bear eloquent testimony to its glorious past. This walking tour celebrates a remarkable legacy.
© Fondation Héritage Montréal, 1992.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 22, 2024
3. Mount Royal Club Marker
The marker is located beside the sidewalk, near the northeast corner of the Mount Royal Club.
Erected 1992 by Fondation Héritage Montréal / Montreal Heritage Foundation. (Marker Number 5.)
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Roads & Vehicles. A significant historical year for this entry is 1906.
Location. 45° 30.066′ N, 73° 34.652′ W. Marker is in Montréal, Québec. It is in Golden Square Mile. It is at the intersection of Rue Sherbrooke Ouest (Québec Route 138) and Stanley Street, on the left when traveling north on Rue Sherbrooke Ouest. The marker is located beside the sidewalk, near the northeast corner of the subject building. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1175 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal QC H3A 1H9, Canada. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Central Canada. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, and the Western World. Historically, it finds itself in what was once a British colony, the Viceroyalty of New France, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, and Rupert’s Land.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Maison Louis-Joseph Forget (within shouting distance of this marker); Maison Alcan (within shouting distance of this marker); Maison Reid Wilson (within shouting distance of this marker); Appartements Acadia (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Ritz-Carlton (about 90 meters away); Holt Renfrew (about 210 meters away); Appartements Le Château (about 240 meters away); Le Cercle Universitaire de McGill / McGill University Faculty Club (approx. 0.2 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Montréal.
Related markers.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 22, 2024
4. Mount Royal Club
Also see . . .
1. Mount Royal Club (Wikipedia).
Excerpt: The Mount Royal Club is a private social club in Montreal, Quebec. The club was founded as a gentlemen's club in 1899 by a breakaway group from the Saint James's Club, but in 1990 became mixed-sex. In its prime, the Mount Royal was Canada's most prestigious club and was an integral part of Montreal's Golden Square Mile society. During the age when Montreal was the center of commerce in Canada, the club's membership counted many of the country's most powerful executives, bankers, financiers, and industrialists.(Submitted on April 22, 2025, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)In the latter half of the 20th century, the Mount Royal underwent a significant upheaval. Until the 1960s, the club's membership was almost entirely of English or Scottish descent, which mirrored the Protestant nature of Montreal business culture. In the wake of the Quiet Revolution, the commercial center of Canada shifted from Montreal to Toronto. Consequently, much of the city's Anglophone élite migrated out of Quebec, which deprived the club of its historic base. In recent decades, the club has become more Francophone and less associated with Canadian corporate power. Although the Mount Royal remains a prestigious institution,
it no longer has the stature it did in its early history.
2. The Mount Royal Club. (Submitted on April 22, 2025, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)
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