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The site for the center is the two triangular parcels of land formed by a basin which runs diagonally out of the lachine canal just below the saint gabriel locks. the site is bounded on the east by richmond street, on the south by the canal, on the west by the projection of the westen end of the basin street warehouse and on the north by basin stree. the parcels and their immediate surroundings form one of the most densely organized sectors of the canal. Topographically and geometrically complex, the Saint-Gabriel sector is the repository of much of the canal's history. The triangle fronting on the Saint Gabriel locks, known as the Pointe des Seigneurs, was home to the Caledonia Iron Works, demolished in the 1980s. Accross the canal are the Belding-Cortecelli Building, a silk factory converted to residential lofts. |
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