Bonsecours Market
{{Short description|Historic site in Montreal, Canada}}
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| native_name = Marché Bonsecours
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| image = Marché Bonsecours.jpg
| image_alt = Bonsecours Market, as seen from the Old Port of Montreal
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| location = 350 Saint-Paul east
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
H2Y 1H2
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| start_date = 1844
| completion_date = 1847
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| architect = William Footner
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| website = http://www.marchebonsecours.qc.ca/en/index.html
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Bonsecours Market ({{langx|fr|Marché Bonsecours}}) is a two-story domed public market located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada at 350 Rue Saint-Paul in Old Montreal.{{cite book|title=Architecture: The AIA Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_w3AQAAIAAJ|volume=82, Issues 9-12|year=1993|publisher=American Institute of Architects|pages=237–8}} For more than 100 years, it was the main public market in the Montreal area. It also briefly accommodated the Parliament of United Canada for one session in 1849.
Named for the adjacent Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel, it opened in 1847. During 1849 the building was used for the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada. The market's design was influenced by Dublin's Customs House.Philip V. Allingham. [http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/montreal/montreal3.html "Dickens's Montreal: May 1842"]. Victorian Web
History
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Construction of this Neoclassical{{cite web |title=Bonsecours Market National Historic Site of Canada |url=https://www.lieuxpatrimoniaux.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=7560 |website=Canadian Register of Historic Places |publisher=Parks Canada Agency |access-date=28 September 2021}} building began in 1844 and were completed in 1847.{{cite book|author1=Dany Fougères|author2=Roderick Macleod|title=Montreal: The History of a North American City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JNNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA565|date=6 April 2018|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|isbn=978-0-7735-5128-2|pages=565–}} It was designed by British architect William Footner,{{cite book|author=Jean-Claude Marsan|title=Montreal in Evolution: Historical Analysis of the Development of Montreal's Architecture and Urban Environment|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HGevw6rKQ3oC&pg=PA193|date=1 September 1990|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-8037-4|pages=193–}} and alterations completed in 1860 were designed by Irish-born Montreal architect George Browne (1811–1885).[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/george-browne/ "George Browne"]. The Canadian Encyclopedia Bonsecours Market also housed Montreal City Hall between 1852 and 1878. The former city hall chambers later became a 3700-square-meter meeting room.
The market building was also a venue for banquets, exhibitions and other festivals. Browne was charged with adding a 900-square-meter concert hall and banquet hall.
The building continued to house the farmer's central market, an increasingly multicultural mix of small vendors,{{cite book|author1=Susan Ireland|author2=Patrice J. Proulx|title=Textualizing the Immigrant Experience in Contemporary Quebec|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4B_T2QbGdFUC&pg=PA12|year=2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32425-3|pages=12–}} until it was closed in 1963 and slated for demolition. However, the building was later transformed into a multi-purpose facility, with a mall that houses outdoor cafés, restaurants and boutiques on the main and second floors, as well as a rental hall and banquet rooms on the lower and upper floors and municipal office space.
Bonsecours Market was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1984.{{cite web|title=Bonsecours Market|url=http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/lhn-nhs/det_E.asp?oqSID=0656&oqeName=Bonsecours+Market&oqfName=March%E9+Bonsecours|work=Directory of Designations of National Historic Significance of Canada|publisher=Parks Canada|access-date=29 July 2011}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{CRHP|7560|Bonsecours Market|July 29, 2011}}
Legacy
On 28 May 1990 Canada Post issued 'Bonsecours Market, Montreal' designed by Raymond Bellemare. The stamp features an image of the Bonsecours Market, which was designed by Montreal architect William Footner and constructed from 1842 to 1845. The $5 stamps are perforated 13.5 and were printed by British American Bank Note Company & Canadian Bank Note Company, Limited.
[https://archive.today/20130101012308/http://data4.collectionscanada.gc.ca/netacgi/nph-brs?s1=(architect.A790,C790.)+Or+(null.B742.)&l=20&d=STMP&p=1&u=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/02011702_e.html&r=14&f=G&Sect1=STMP Canada Post Stamp]. Library and Archives Canada website
References
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External links
- [http://www.marchebonsecours.qc.ca/en/index.html Bonsecours Market]. Government of Quebec website
- [http://www.aviewoncities.com/montreal/marchebonsecours.htm A View on Cities: Bonsecours Market] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221045058/http://www.aviewoncities.com/montreal/marchebonsecours.htm |date=2019-12-21 }}
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before=St. Anne Market — now Place d'Youville|
title=Site of the Legislative Assembly of the United Provinces of Canada (as well as Freemason's Hall)|
years=1849–1850 |
after=Parliament of Canada West (3rd site), Toronto
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Category:1847 establishments in Canada
Category:Buildings and structures in Old Montreal
Category:City and town halls in Quebec
Category:Commercial buildings completed in 1860
Category:Landmarks in Montreal
Category:Legislative buildings in Canada
Category:National Historic Sites in Quebec
Category:Neoclassical architecture in Canada