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Old Port of Montreal. Quebec

The Vieux-Port of Montreal lies between the city's historic district and the St. Lawrence River. 
I have chosen to renovate the Old Police station and provide a new addition along the east side. The Old police station is situated at the far end of the L'Horloge Basin in the Bonsecours Area. It was designed by the architect Theodore Daoust, and erected between 1923- 1924. 
The Old Police station was built to function as an administrative building of the port and its services. Now the building is left vacant with no use.

This period was Montreal's conquest where the fur trade reached a golden age. The first harbor installations start to take place. Many fortifications were demolished at the turn of the century.	1 7 9 4
The harbor commission set up a mandate for expansion and improvement of the port facilities. Developments that took place around this time: the excavation of the Lachine Canal, and the building of the Bonsecours market.  1859 The industrial period. The inauguration of the Victoria Bridge. The railway construction strengthened the role of Montreal as the hub of transportation.	1 8 4 6
The first transcontinental train was set off from Dalhousie station in the port of Montreal. In 1922, the Clock Tower was built as a memorial to the sailors who died at war. The Montreal harbor became the world's no.1 grain port. The Old police station was built under the name of Warf Office building for Harbor Commissions in 1923.	1 9 0 7
Old Montreal continues to reflect the colonial era in terms of its buildings and street grid pattern which characterized that period. It also chronicles functional and technological changes which occurred during the middle of the nineteenth century in much the same way as a multi-layered archeological dig exposes several period's of society's evolution.	1 9 9 2